Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. · Cuts and abrasions or bruises
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Novinium Inc., 7945 Bermejo Road, FORT WORTH, TEXAS 76112
on — Cuts and abrasions or bruises, affecting the multiple body parts, n.e.c..
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Final narrative
An employee was standing on a flat bed truck while a transformer was being loaded onto it with a sky lift. Outriggers were not used at the time. The sky lift tipped over and struck the employee on the head causing a laceration to the ear and abrasions to an arm and leg. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was climbing down into a vault when they grabbed onto some doors on the vault and the doors gave way, causing the employee to fall at least 20 feet to the bottom of the vault, which had capped rebar on it. The employee suffered broken ribs and a broken sternum.
An employee was assisting a crew in de-energizing a radial section of cable. The employee was switching cables to isolate a section he was working on when a probe contacted a cable, resulting in a shock and burns to both hands.
An employee was moving a piece of an I-beam for welding when it rolled off the cribbing. The employee went to catch it when it fell and crushed the employee's finger, resulting in a partial amputation.
An employee was helping to disassemble large reels used to store steel wire when a 264-pound flange from the reel fell over onto the employee's left leg. The employee sustained multiple fractures to their leg and ligament injuries to the lower leg.
The injured employee was putting away materials on the warehouse floor as a co-worker was pushing a pallet onto a nearby shelf. The pallet knocked another pallet forward, causing it to fall onto the injured employee's shoulders. The employee suffered fractures in their right and left knees and ankles.
Employees were moving a single man lift into a building and reclining the lift to position it to fit through the door. The lift shifted and fell, causing the employee to sustain fractures to the left tibia and fibula. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery.
An employee was moving a light tower so it could be hitched to a truck. He grabbed the tongue of the trailer hitch on the light tower to slide it to the left. The tongue jack fell off, causing the light tower tongue to drop on the employee's right hand. The employee's middle fingertip was amputated.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 237130)
An employee was terminating cables in a junction box. A loose ground wire came into contact with the bushing, causing a flash that burned the right side of the employee's face and his right hand.
An employee was using a bucket truck hoist to raise secondary aerial wiring. The wire made contact with the primary wire, causing an arc flash. The employee suffered burns to both hands and was hospitalized.
An employee was terminating conductors to buss bars inside the secondary compartment of a single-phase transformer. An arc flash occurred, causing burns to the soft tissue of the employee's face.
An employee was securing the claw of a grapple truck to the truck bed. His left little finger was caught between the tie down strap and the rub rail of the truck, resulting in partial amputation of the finger.
After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.
An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.
An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.