Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at The Toro Company, 200 Sime Avenue, TOMAH, WISCONSIN 54660
on — Fractures, affecting the lumbar region.
Final narrative
An employee climbed onto a mower that was raised 18 inches on a final assembly platform to install a steering wheel. As the employee was climbing down from the mower, her foot missed the 18-inch platform and she fell to the concrete plant floor, fracturing her L4 vertebra.
An employee was moving materials in an area behind the building using a stand-up loader. While backing up, his ankle was pinned between a metal rack and the loader resulting in a broken ankle.
An employee was taking inventory while on an order picker elevated at approximately 16 feet when they fell to the warehouse floor. The employee sustained a head laceration, liver laceration, and fractures to the pelvis, wrist, and femur.
An employee was using a stock chaser ladder to retrieve a part from stock. The employee fell to the ground, and the part struck her in the face, resulting in a laceration and fractures to her face and teeth.
An employee was walking around the driver's side of a semi trailer to secure the trailer doors when the wind blew the semi trailer door into the employee. The employee sustained a laceration to the head and two broken ribs.
An employee was using a manipulator/hoist to lift a mower deck off an assembly table when the mower blade became caught on an attachment on the table. The table then lifted with the blade as the deck was rising. The employee went to push the table back down and release it from the blade. At the same time, the controls were activated to lower the manipulator/hoist. The employee's left thumb was then pinched between the table and the manipulator/hoist, amputating the distal portion of the thumb just below the nail.
An employee was climbing a step ladder while carrying a 3-foot piece of conduit. As he went to reposition his feet on the ladder by pivoting, he slipped and fell from the third rung of a 6-foot ladder. The employee sustained fractures to the left femur, right elbow, and right ring finger.
An employee was descending a 4-step maintenance stand when she missed the bottom step and fell to the hangar floor. The employee suffered a left hip fracture.
An employee stopped a belt and was going to check it for missing packages. She fell backward 3-4 feet from an elevated platform and sustained a broken right arm.
An employee had just finished a routine concrete pour and was ascending the ladder to clean the concrete mixer truck. The employee lost their grip and fell approximately 2-3 feet, contacting the truck's bumper. The employee suffered rib fractures and a punctured lung.
An employee was performing duties as an expeditor. After opening the dock door, the employee scanned the barcode on the door of the truck and placed one foot on the truck and one foot on the dock. The truck drove out of the stall, causing the employee to fall 4 feet off the dock onto the concrete. The employee sustained fractures to the right side of the pelvis, elbow, and a left ring fingertip as well as injuries to the right wrist and bruising to the back and stomach.
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