Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Marsa, Inc., St. Augustine Capuchin Friary, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 15201
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was sliding a heavy piece of stone when it slipped down and pinched his left index finger between the stone and a meter cover on the ground. His left index finger was smashed, resulting in an amputation.
A bricklayer was working from a scaffold striking the mortar joints when they fell six feet to the ground and sustained fractures to their ribs, neck, and wrist.
An employee was moving a pressure washer from one section of scaffolding to another section when the weight of the pressure washer on the end of the scaffold caused it to tip over. The employee fell to the ground and fractured his vertebrae.
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 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.