Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at W. R. Berkley Corporation, 475 Steamboat Road, GREENWICH, CONNECTICUT 06830
on — Concussions, affecting the brain.
Final narrative
On September 27, 2018, an employee was injured while using the elevator, sustaining a concussion.
On September 25, 2023, an employee was working in the body department installing doors, hoods, and tailgates. The employee finished their shift and was hospitalized later that evening for a back injury.
An employee was climbing a fixed ladder to gain access to the roof for an inspection. The bolts holding the ladder to the wall broke, resulting in the ladder and the employee falling approximately 14 feet to the ground. The employee sustained a concussion and a brain bleed as well as fractured ribs and was hospitalized.
An employee was walking down the office hallway when she stumbled and fell to the floor, causing a bleed from her femoral artery and swelling in the left leg.
An employee completed an inspection of an insured property's roof for hail damage. As he was getting on the ladder to descend from the roof, he fell approximately 10-12 feet and landed on his back on the concrete ground. The employee sustained 10 fractured ribs (4-5 displaced) and 5 transverse process fractures. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was working outside inspecting vehicles at a body shop when he became ill due to heat. The employee sustained dehydration, heat exhaustion, and a muscle injury.
An employee was inspecting wind and water damage in a residential attic when they stepped onto drywall between two trusses and fell through the drywall. They fell approximately 10 feet to the concrete ground below and sustained a fractured right tibia.
An employee was checking on a machine outside of the building and removed a cover to clean out a blocked area. His hand was caught by a rotary valve in a dust collection machine. The employee's fingertip was amputated.
An employee was working to clean a glue roller with a scraper tool. The tool and the employee's left thumb were pinched between two rollers, resulting in a partial amputation.
An employee was re-arranging boxes of pipe insulation on a pallet. One of the boxes fell from the pallet and knocked over an upright empty cylinder. The cylinder fell and crushed the tip of the employee's right toe. The employee's toe required surgical amputation.
An employee was securing the claw of a grapple truck to the truck bed. His left little finger was caught between the tie down strap and the rub rail of the truck, resulting in partial amputation of the finger.
An employee was cutting extruded aluminum framing material using a horizontal band saw. She went to grab a rag in the machine when the rag contacted the blade and pulled her hand in toward the blade, resulting in a partial amputation of the right index finger.