Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet · Intracranial injuries, unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Pioneer Pole Buildings, Inc. , 631 Washington St, READING, PENNSYLVANIA 19601
on — Intracranial injuries, unspecified, affecting the brain.
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Final narrative
An employee was installing metal roofing for a new pole building. As he was coming down the roof for a break, he fell through a seam in the roof approximately 12 ft. to the ground below. The employee suffered a head injury, a broken left wrist, stitches above the left eye and right elbow and a bruised tailbone.
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An employee was unloading a roller from a rollback truck. Another employee unhooked the roller from the winch and the roller slid off the rollback, causing the injured employee to be ejected approximately 1 foot out of the roller onto the ground. The injured employee was on the roller when this happened. The employee suffered a broken right hip. and was hospitalized.
An employee worked on site from around 7:00 AM until 2:00 PM and then drove back to the shop. About an hour after his shift ended, he felt ill, lost consciousness, and had a seizure. The employee was hospitalized with heat-related illness.
An employee was moving trim from a crate on a flatbed truck, about to put it on top of a steel pack on the forks of a truck-mounted forklift. He fell from the bed of the truck to the ground, suffering eight broken ribs, two broken vertebrae, and a broken collarbone. He was hospitalized.
An employee was in the operator's basket of a telehandler, driving it off the back of a lowboy trailer. The telehandler slipped off the side of the trailer. The employee was ejected and fell to the ground, suffering several broken lower-back vertebrae and a broken right shoulder. He was hospitalized.
An employee was checking an HVAC unit in the attic when they fell approximately 15 feet through the rafters to the floor. The employee sustained fractures to the ribs and scapula as well as a collapsed lung.
An employee was removing grating to change metal chip hoppers located in a pit. The employee lost his balance and fell approximately 12 feet from the grate, landing in the metal chip hopper. The employee sustained a sprained right foot, a left foot fracture, and a fractured L5 vertebra.
An employee was reviewing the next steps to take with the foreman when some material fell from above and landed near them. The injured employee then looked up, took a step on the catwalk, and fell through a gap, landing on the ground 15 feet below. The employee sustained three fractured vertebrae and a head laceration.
0n November 16, 2023, an employee was climbing onto a catwalk to cut valves for unit heaters in a building. The employee fell 14 feet through the attic onto the concrete floor, resulting in a fractured pelvis.
An employee was removing a rooftop curb when they fell approximately 15 feet through an opening in the roof, resulting in a fractured leg that required hospitalization.
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The injured employee was standing behind a table. She jumped out to scare another employee, but tripped and fell on the tile floor, injuring her right ankle/foot. She was hospitalized with a dislocated ankle that required surgery.
An employee was installing insulation in a wall when she tripped on a hole (12" deep) and fell, hitting her head on the concrete floor. The employee sustained fractures to her leg and wrist, and lacerations to her head. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was loading a 4-inch wooden door into a pickup truck when he felt a pop in his right side behind his shoulder blade. He was hospitalized later that day and underwent surgery, having suffered a collapsed right lung.
An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.
An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.
An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.
An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.