Roadway collision-moving and standing vehicle in roadway · Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at O'reilly Auto Parts , Intersection Hwy 36 & Hwy 59 Frontage Rd, ROSENBERG, TEXAS 77471
on — Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages, affecting the brain.
Final narrative
An employee was in his vehicle going through a green stoplight when traffic came to a complete stop. He was then struck from behind by a van, suffering brain bleeding as well as neck and back injuries. He was hospitalized.
An employee was carrying a plastic tote full of brake rotors. His foot caught the corner of a pallet, causing him to fall to the concrete floor and break his hip.
An employee was on a 6-foot ladder, getting a boxed cooling fan from a top shelf in a storage area. His hand slipped off the box, causing him to fall backward from the ladder to the concrete floor. He suffered fractures to his right elbow and right hip, as well as contusions to the head and shoulders.
Two employees were putting a broken pallet jack into a metal recycling bin using a dock stocker. The jack became stuck on a pallet of totes next to the bin, causing the jack handle to snap back. It pinched the injured employee's fingers against the bin, resulting in an amputation to the ring fingertip.
An employee was returning to close the hood of a customer's vehicle when he tripped and fell to the ground. The employee sustained several rib fractures and chip fractures to his lumbar vertebrae.
An employee was walking through the back room of a store when she tripped over a battery on the floor and fell, landing on her right wrist. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured wrist.
An employee was working from a bucket truck approximately 20 feet from the ground. While stationary and elevated, the work truck was struck by another vehicle and the employee was ejected from the bucket. The employee fell to the ground and suffered a broken femur and fractures to their hip, spine, and ribs.
An employee was sitting in his personal vehicle parked on the side of the road in a road construction zone. A motor vehicle traveling the wrong way on the highway drove into the construction zone and struck the employee's vehicle. The employee sustained two broken ribs and a broken leg.
An employee was working out of a lineman truck bucket about 18 feet over a coned-off lane, installing traffic light mounts on an under-bridge deck. A semi tractor trailer swung wide and hit the bottom corner of the lineman truck bucket. The impact pinched the employee's arm between the bucket and bridge, breaking the arm.
An employee was standing on the step on the back of a stopped trash truck. The police were pursuing a vehicle at a high rate of speed when the vehicle hit the back of the trash truck. The employee was thrown from the truck. He stood up and walked for a moment before falling down. He suffered a concussion and neck/upper back strains.
An employee was carrying a plastic tote full of brake rotors. His foot caught the corner of a pallet, causing him to fall to the concrete floor and break his hip.
An employee was working on a vehicle in a bay. As he turned around, his foot caught on the leg of a lift and he heard/felt a snap and pop in his right hip and fell. The employee sustained a torn hamstring in his right leg.
An employee was installing a driveshaft on a customer's vehicle. He was using a floor jack to hold the driveshaft in place to line up the bolts. The driveshaft moved off the jack and crushed his left ring fingertip, resulting in an open fracture of the tuft of the distal phalanx, as well as a partial amputation.
An employee was in a truck, helping a team lift a 55-gallon drum into the truck. The employee fell to the ground and suffered a broken left arm. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.
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.