Exposure to environmental heat · Multiple effects of heat and light
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Railway Spine Productions, LLC, 1801 East St. Bernard Highway, CHALMETTE, LOUISIANA 70043
on — Multiple effects of heat and light, affecting the bODY SYSTEMS.
Final narrative
An employee who was running cable and preparing lights for a film set was hospitalized due to heat stress and dehydration.
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An employee was working as a background extra for a movie. She slipped while walking through the holding/catering area, falling to the ground and striking her right elbow. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured elbow.
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A photographer was walking through a studio toward the production table during a photoshoot. The photographer tripped on a power cord that was taped in place on the floor with a cord cover. The photographer fell, fractured her right hip, and was hospitalized.
An employee was on a temporary loading dock, receiving pieces of a large tent structure from a telehandler. She was working to straighten a packing blanket when the telehandler lowered it's tines onto her left hand. Her middle finger was degloved from the first knuckle up. The finger required surgical amputation from the first knuckle up.
A driver was exiting his vehicle outside the plant gate when his foot slipped on the top step of the truck. He fell to the ground, landed on his left hip and elbow. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip/femur.
A security employee was responding to an urgent call from staff regarding a violent patient. The employee tripped and fell on the floor outside of the stairwell. The employee sustained a closed head injury, contusion of the cerebrum without loss of consciousness, and a closed fracture of the distal end of the right radius.
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An employee was walking on a sidewalk and stubbed his toe on an elevated portion of concrete, causing him to trip and fall. The employee's right knee was dislocated.