Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode · Poisoning, including poisoning-related asphyxia
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at A. L. Kauffman & Sons Company, 3097 Old Philadelphia Pike, BIRD IN HAND, PENNSYLVANIA 17505
on — Poisoning, including poisoning-related asphyxia, affecting the bODY SYSTEMS.
Final narrative
An employee worked alone for an extended period of time in an enclosed cold storage room using a propane-fueled forklift to move, stack, and store pallets of peaches. The forklift had an exhaust issue, and the employee experienced an overexposure to carbon monoxide. The employee was hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning.
An employee was passing through a building when she suffered an allergic reaction to a cinnamon air freshener. The employee began to feel dizzy and ill, ultimately becoming unresponsive. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee wearing a blasting hood was preparing to blast inside a tank. The line that supplies the hood with breathing air was plugged into an argon line. The employee breathed the argon gas and fell. The employee was hospitalized for argon poisoning.
An employee was preparing a pump for maintenance. When the employee removed a cover, chemicals were released into the air. The employee was exposed to hydrogen sulfide and methyl mercaptan and was hospitalized.
An employee was inspecting materials in a warehouse area. While she was in a main aisle, a forklift backed into her foot. She suffered a possible fracture to the foot and was hospitalized.
An employee was using a table saw to cut wood when their fingers came in contact with the blade. The employee sustained amputations of one or more digits.
An employee was standing on a step ladder picking apples from a dwarf apple tree while holding a bag weighing approximately 35 pounds. The employee slipped and fell approximately 4.5 feet to the ground, resulting in a fracture to the lower left leg. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was working from a scissor lift to paint piping. The employee finished painting, lowered the lift, unlatched the chain on the back, and was standing on the top step of the ladder that is used to access the work platform. The lift raised approximately 6 feet into the air and the employee fell onto the concrete floor below. The employee sustained a concussion and a neck fracture requiring hospitalization.
An employee was tightening the gas cap on a tree trimmer that had been recently turned off but had gas spillage around the cap. The trimmer ignited, burning his hands, face, and chest.
An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.
An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.
An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.
An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.