Ingestion of harmful substance · Anaphylactic shock, anaphylaxis
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Crossmark, Inc., ShopRite #368, WEST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT 06119
on — Anaphylactic shock, anaphylaxis, affecting the bODY SYSTEMS.
Final narrative
An employee was conducting a food product demonstration. The employee took a bite of the product and had an anaphylactic reaction requiring hospitalization.
An employee was standing on a demo cart, handling food samples when they fell against the railing. The employee sustained a punctured lung and broken ribs that required hospitalization.
An employee was walking to the back of the store when her foot got tangled with plastic wrap that was attached to a pallet. She tripped and fell to the concrete floor, sustaining fractures to her right knee and left elbow.
An employee tripped on a plexiglass display and fell over it, landing on the floor and suffering seven broken left-side ribs as well as a contusion to the left hand.
An employee was walking and moved to avoid a customer who was also walking. The employee tripped and fell to the concrete floor, resulting in a pelvis fracture that required hospitalization.
An employee was setting 20 lb. charcoal bags at a Publix supermarket when the employee felt dizzy and fell to the floor, suffering a cracked rib and minor cuts to the face and hands.
While waiting to assist with delivering a transformer from a flatbed truck, an employee went to get a drink of water. He returned to the work area and set his water bottle down. He later went to take a drink and picked up a different bottle that contained denatured alcohol. The employee was hospitalized due to poisoning.
An employee was carrying a bottle of door seal solution containing sodium silicate. The employee bumped their arm, causing them to ingest the solution. The employee suffered from wheezing, nausea, and breathing difficulties.
An employee was siphoning degreaser from a 55-gallon drum. Some of the caustic solution entered his mouth and throat, causing burns. He was hospitalized.
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An employee was checking temperatures to a side seal assembly when the side seal bar pinched the inside of his right middle fingertip causing an amputation.
An employee was parking a standup powered industrial vehicle (PIV) after moving pallets in a warehouse when they struck a stationary forklift, resulting in an ankle injury.
An employee was operating a forklift with a hopper attached. The chain that holds the hopper in place was stuck between the forklift prongs. The employee was working to free the chain when the forklift forks fell on their left forearm causing a severe laceration.
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.