Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Saipan Lau Lau Development Inc., Kagman St., SAIPAN, NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS 96950
on — Fractures, affecting the wrist(s).
Final narrative
An employee was attempting to open a jammed door to the machine room with both hands. The employee fell backwards onto the concrete floor fracturing his right wrist.
An employee was pulling on a bale of corrugated cardboard boxes that were on a conveyor. The straps on the bale failed and the employee fell to the floor. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery for a fractured femur and/or hip.
On December 27, 2023, an employee was delivering mail to an apartment complex when their knee gave out and they fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a left tibia fracture.
An employee was walking to the inventory cage when her ankle gave out and she fell to the floor. The employee sustained a femur fracture and was hospitalized.
An employee was dislodging a pallet that was stuck when boxes of product fell onto them, causing them to fall to the ground. The employee suffered a fractured femur.
An employee was checking credentials for vehicles entering an area. While approaching a vehicle that had failed to stop as instructed, the employee lost his balance and fell backward, landing on his back. The car struck him, and he suffered a tailbone fracture and a kidney injury.
An employee was removing rigging from a post-tensioning strand when it suddenly whipped and unwound. The employee suffered an avulsion to the right thumb.
An employee was entering a doorway on the seventeenth floor of an enclosed building when the door closed on his left index finger, crushing it. The fingertip was amputated.
A restroom stall door swung open, bounced back at the employee, and the coat hook on the door impaled his left eye. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery.
An employee was operating a tug that had been re-tagged due to faulty brakes. As the employee approached the designated parking area, he slowed the tug using the clutch and then exited the tug. He went to stop the tug from colliding with a concrete wall when his right ankle became caught between the tug and a parking stall barrier. He sustained a fractured ankle and was hospitalized.
A temporary employee was trying to dismantle the wooden staging props on a trailer. He lost his balance and jumped off the trailer, landing about 4 feet below and breaking a bone in his right leg.
An employee was performing maintenance work from a ladder when he slipped and fell off the ladder and hit his head on a concrete pillar. He suffered a traumatic head injury.
An employee was using a step ladder to cut branches off trees. One of the branches fell and hit the ladder, causing the employee to lose his balance and fall to the ground. He suffered a broken right wrist.
An employee was observing and troubleshooting cement powder transfer equipment. He placed his right hand into adjoining piping while clearing cement powder from the pipe. His fingers entered the machinery and two of his fingers were struck by moving parts.