Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Irving Oil, 286 Sheep Davis Hill Road, CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE 03301
on — Cuts, lacerations, affecting the hand(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was hospitalized due to an air bubble in his blood that occurred while delivering propane. The employee cut his hand and forced air entered the cut.
On September 25, 2023, an employee was working in the body department installing doors, hoods, and tailgates. The employee finished their shift and was hospitalized later that evening for a back injury.
An air hose had come disconnected from a tire that had just been installed on a truck. An employee put the hose back on the tire, which exploded and injured the employee.
An employee was on a 4-foot stepladder, replacing a vent pipe on an oil tank outside a garage. The employee fell from the ladder. His left hip struck a steel/concrete bollard and was injured.
An employee was installing a vent chimney for a gas fireplace and fell from the roof to the ground below. The employee was hospitalized with bilateral foot fractures.
An employee was lowering the bucket of a track loader that contained a grade stake and the grade stake punctured his foot, resulting in hospitalization and surgery.
An employee was using a pike to move a pallet of sugar that was stuck in the powder racking. The employee fell backward, landing on his right leg. The employee's leg was fractured and he was hospitalized.
An employee was working to fix the forks on a forklift when the fork(s) fell on her toes. The second and third toes on her right foot were fractured, lacerated, and required stitches.
An employee was delivering a 65-foot boom lift to a rental customer's construction site. The employee set up the ramp truck in the parking lot adjacent to the construction site. He elevated the boom 4-5 feet to clear a temporary fence. While driving the boom lift off the ramp, the wheels slid to the driver's side of the ramp truck, ultimately sliding off the ramp. The boom lift fell off the side of the truck and rolled onto its side. The employee sustained a fractured clavicle, a dislocated shoulder, separated/fractured ribs, a punctured lung, and a fractured left femur. The employee required surgery.