Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at UPS Ground Freight Inc., 6060 Carlisle Pike, MECHANICSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 17050
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the knee(s).
Final narrative
An employee slipped on a metal bar inside a truck trailer, suffering a knee injury.
An employee was loading packages into a trailer. They were pushing in the roller assembly when it became unlatched from the dock. As the roller set moved away from the dock, employee's left little finger got pinched between the hand bar of the rollers and a stationary bar. The employee's fingertip was partially amputated.
The injured employee was standing beside a forklift going through paperwork. The forklift operator moved the forklift and it struck the injured employee resulting in a broken left fibula.
A dock plate got stuck while being deployed into a trailer. While an employee was getting it loose, it caught on his glove and slammed down onto his right index finger, causing an amputation.
On February 21, 2017, at approximately 9:35 p.m., two employees were moving bulk carts. The injured employee's left hand was pinched between the two carts, resulting in a crushing injury that required surgery and hospitalization.
An employee arrived at work and was walking into the store through the parking lot. The employee tripped over a curb and fell to the ground, sustaining a femur fracture.
An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.
A driver was exiting his vehicle outside the plant gate when his foot slipped on the top step of the truck. He fell to the ground, landed on his left hip and elbow. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip/femur.
An employee was on the ground working to close a trailer door. The door was caught by the wind and blew the employee backward. He landed on his back and sustained four fractured ribs, requiring hospitalization.
An employee was working from the elevated bucket of an excavator when they fell between two tanks and landed on the ground. The employee sustained a fractured leg.
An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.
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.
An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.
An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.