Other fall to lower level, unspecified · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at MASONRY BUILDERS, INC., 11601 Erie Road, PARRISH, FLORIDA 34219
on — Fractures, affecting the skull.
Final narrative
An employee fell off a roof and fractured his skull, requiring hospitalization.
An employee was washing down a brick wall. He was removing scaffolding and was about to move down to a lower level when he fell, landing on the ground about 20 feet below and suffering a hip and spine fracture.
An employee was bending down, reaching through a tower frame for a work platform to bind straps and frames together in preparation for shipping. The frame flipped over and landed on his left ankle, dislocating and fracturing it. He was hospitalized.
An employee was dismantling scaffold that was three frames high and had planking that was three planks wide. As he was dismantling the ladder portion, the ladder tipped forward and he lost his balance and fell 18 feet to the ground, suffering a left heel fracture, a right ankle fracture and compression of numbers 1, 2 and 3 vertebrae.
An employee was on an A-frame ladder retrieving materials from a shelf. He slipped and fell and his leg got caught in the ladder rungs, breaking his left tibia.
An employee was unloading materials from a flatbed trailer when they fell from the trailer and landed on the ground. The employee sustained a fractured left leg.
An employee was unloading appliances at a customer location for delivery. The employee was moving a water heater to be placed on the liftgate when he stepped backward and fell to the ground. The employee sustained rib and back injuries.
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.
A maintenance employee was 6 feet up an 8-foot ladder to hand someone a bucket when he lost his balance and fell backward to the tile floor. The employee was hospitalized with a laceration to the back of his head that required staples, a concussion, and three fractured neck vertebrae.
An employee was sitting on the tailgate of a moving pickup truck while holding the handles of a wheelbarrow. The employee fell off the tailgate and struck his head on the asphalt. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured skull and a brain bleed.
An employee was helping a coworker transport a tall palm tree with a mini skid steer. The employee was severely shocked by a high-voltage electrical wire above the ground.
An employee was retrieving a Christmas tree from a shelf using a ladder. He missed a step and fell to the concrete floor. He sustained injury to his head and wrist.
An employee was operating an agricultural tractor during sugarcane harvesting. The employee sustained a lumbar sprain due to vibration or motion from the tractor.
An employee was moving a 3-ton condensing unit, strapped down on a dolly, out of a garage. The strap broke, causing the employee to fall backward onto the brick pavered driveway. The employee suffered injury to a spinal ligament in the neck.