Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at ABC Supply Co, Inc., 49 Flamingo Rd, BELLEVILLE, ILLINOIS 62223
on — Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified, affecting the nonclassifiable.
Final narrative
An employee fell approximately 3.5 to 4 feet from the bed of a shingle delivery truck to the ground and was hospitalized overnight.
After loading shingles, an employee was unhooking from the roof to come down. He fell to the ground while wearing fall protection and sustained fractures to his lower right arm and left heel.
An employee was climbing a ladder from a driveway to a roof. The ladder kicked out from under him and he fell roughly 8 feet, landing on the ladder where it lay in the concrete driveway. He suffered fractures to the right forearm and wrist.
An employee was loading materials onto a truck bed with a forklift. The employee was loading a skid onto the trailer and as they were lowering it there was a piece of wood stuck on the underside of the skid. They went to manually remove it, and it came down and pinched the employee's right index finger between the skid and the truck. The employee sustained a partial amputation to their right index finger.
An employee fell through a new construction roof to the concrete floor, suffering a broken left femur and left radius, a chin laceration, and a left eyebrow laceration.
An employee was distributing shingles on a roof that was under construction. The roof collapsed from under him and he fell to the concrete floor 15 feet below. He suffered fractures to the left upper femur and the left radius, as well as lacerations to the chin and left eyebrow.
An employee was climbing a step ladder while carrying a 3-foot piece of conduit. As he went to reposition his feet on the ladder by pivoting, he slipped and fell from the third rung of a 6-foot ladder. The employee sustained fractures to the left femur, right elbow, and right ring finger.
An employee was descending a 4-step maintenance stand when she missed the bottom step and fell to the hangar floor. The employee suffered a left hip fracture.
An employee stopped a belt and was going to check it for missing packages. She fell backward 3-4 feet from an elevated platform and sustained a broken right arm.
An employee had just finished a routine concrete pour and was ascending the ladder to clean the concrete mixer truck. The employee lost their grip and fell approximately 2-3 feet, contacting the truck's bumper. The employee suffered rib fractures and a punctured lung.
An employee was performing duties as an expeditor. After opening the dock door, the employee scanned the barcode on the door of the truck and placed one foot on the truck and one foot on the dock. The truck drove out of the stall, causing the employee to fall 4 feet off the dock onto the concrete. The employee sustained fractures to the right side of the pelvis, elbow, and a left ring fingertip as well as injuries to the right wrist and bruising to the back and stomach.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 423330)
Employees were at the trucks to leave for lunch. The injured employee was putting the cone back after the crew leader pulled the truck forward from the designated worker parking area. The injured employee then ran back to the truck. As he went to get in the truck, he said the upper thigh area of his leg was hurting. He laid on the ground outside the truck and crew leader could see a bump/bulge in the the injured employee's upper thigh area below his hip. The employee sustained a fractured femur and required surgery.
An employee was helping a contractor unload a delivery of two new dock plates from a trailer onto a forklift. The employee s left index and middle fingers were pinched by the dock plates, resulting in amputations to both fingers above the first joint.
An employee was helping to load a customer's truck. The employee stepped toward a forklift to get paperwork from the driver. The employee's right lower leg and foot were run over by the back tire of the forklift. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to his lower right leg.
An employee was moving wet bundles of shingles on a truck bed, when one of the bundles slipped out of his hands. He tripped over a pallet, fell off the bed of the truck, and landed on his left side. The employee sustained fractures to three ribs, and a displaced iliac fracture.
On August 12, 2025, an employee was loading shingles onto the roof of a new-construction home when be began to suffer from heat exhaustion and dehydration.
An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.
An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.