Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at DLZ Illinois Inc., 8430 W. Bryn Mawr Ave., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60631
on — Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified, affecting the nonclassifiable.
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Final narrative
An employee was driving a work vehicle when it caught on fire, burning the employee.
A road maintenance employee was helping to pick up lane closure equipment while in the basket of a truck. As the basket on the back was raised from the lowered position, the employee's right foot became stuck between the frame of the box truck and the frame of the motorized personnel basket. They sustained four fractures to the right foot.
An employee was collecting garbage with an automated garbage truck. A hydraulic line ruptured and sprayed into the exhaust, igniting a fire. The employee sustained severe burns on her right arm, back, and face.
An employee was driving a rear-property machine across a bridge over a river when the bridge collapsed and the machine and the employee fell 16 feet into the river below. The employee suffered a broken ankle and broken ribs.
An employee was standing while providing care to a patient in the back of a moving ambulance. The ambulance made a turn and the employee fell onto wooden cabinets mounted on the wall of the ambulance. The employee suffered back trauma that resulted in hemothorax, that required medical treatment.
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 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.