Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode · Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Precision Packaging Components LLC, 386-AA MS-356, RIENZI, MISSISSIPPI 38865
on — Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified, affecting the bODY SYSTEMS.
Final narrative
Two employees were exposed to carbon monoxide from an open water fountain drain. They were hospitalized.
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 cleaning saw dust from the exit end of an automatic, double-sided planer with a compressed air nozzle. The employee's hand was caught in the machine, resulting in severe lacerations and a degloving injury requiring surgery. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.
After loading metals onto racks to be picked up by a crane for the anodizing process, an employee was standing idle when he was stuck by the control cab of the crane, which was about 4 feet above the ground. The cab of the crane pushed the employee into one of the support steel columns of the building, where he suffered a collapsed right lung and one broken rib. He was hospitalized.
An employee was taking inventory when he pulled on an aluminum sheet stack and aluminum sheets fell onto his left leg, breaking it and requiring hospitalization.
An employee was checking a pole-type transformer tank for leaks. A hydraulic clamping device was lowered onto his right thumb and crushed it against the sharp edge of the bottom of the tank. He suffered a partial transphalangeal amputation to the thumb.
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 going into a trailer to mark product for shipment and the trailer pulled away from the dock. The employee fell out of the trailer, contacted the dock plate, and then fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a punctured lung, fractured ribs, and contusions.
An employee was hooking up bundled tie-downs with a chain. While he was holding a hook, the other hook was unlocked. This caused the employee's hook to slide down and pinch his right index finger between the chain and the shackle. He suffered an amputation to the fingertip (without bone loss), as well as an open fracture.
An employee was operating a gas tugger to lift metal sheeting. His left hand was pulled into the pulley, which crushed his left thumb, resulting in avulsions and other tissue damage. He was hospitalized and required surgery.