Fall on same level due to slipping · Intracranial injuries, unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Manpower, 222 E Becher Ave, JACKSONVILLE, ILLINOIS 62650
on — Intracranial injuries, unspecified, affecting the brain.
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Final narrative
Employees were stripping a tile floor in preparation to wax it. One of the employees slipped and fell on the wet floor striking his head and sustaining a small laceration. The employee was hospitalized due to a possible head injury.
A temporary employee was operating a forklift with a dumping attachment. The mast extended in the air during a sharp turn, causing the forklift to tip onto its side. The employee suffered a broken foot.
An employee was stacking pallets and used his left hand to prevent the stack of pallets from falling over. The employee suffered a thumb tip amputation and compound fracture of the left hand.
The inured employee was holding and lowering a shaft from machine number GK24 onto a jack stand. The shaft slipped and fell on the worker's finger causing an amputation of the right middle fingertip.
An employee was working in the forest flagging an area to be harvested. He took a step and his foot slipped on a stick hidden under the leaves, causing him to fall to the ground. He landed on his right foot/lower leg resulting in a fractured tibia.
An employee was inspecting an apartment to ensure it was ready for a new resident to move in. The carpet in the apartment had been recently cleaned and was still wet. As the employee went from the carpet to the tiled floor of the bathroom, they slipped and fell, resulting in a torn left hamstring.
An employee was delivering a letter along a rural carrier route when she stepped on an ice-covered snow drift, slipped, and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a right hip fracture that required surgery.
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A temporary employee was rigging secondary steel when the steel joist fell to the ground and struck his lower left leg, resulting in fractures to the tibia and fibula.
A temporary employee was helping set up a stage for a concert. The employee was run over by a mobile cart and sustained a toe amputation. The employee was hospitalized.
The injured employee was operating a reach truck and stopped at an intersection within a warehouse. After a brief a conversation, another employee's reach truck accelerated unexpectedly and struck the injured employee's stationary truck crushing his foot. He sustained fractures to his left foot and toes requiring hospitalization and surgery.
A temporary employee was operating a plastic strapping machine on an assembly line. The machine wrapped the employee, causing crushing injuries to their ribs and a kidney. The employee was hospitalized.
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.