Other fall to lower level, unspecified · Intracranial injuries, unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at R. P. Lumber Co., Inc., 514 E. Vandalia Ave., EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS 62025
on — Intracranial injuries, unspecified, affecting the brain.
Final narrative
On September 24, 2019, an employee was climbing out of the cab of a truck when he fell to the asphalt/concrete ground, striking his head.
HospitalizedBrainTruck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
On November 22, 2022, an employee was delivering lumber to a job site. The employee climbed into the bed of the pickup truck and began unstrapping the lumber from the rack. After releasing the rear strap, he felt the truck begin to move. The employee then jumped from the back of the bed of the truck onto the back passenger side of the vehicle. He fell and hit the ground and the truck then rolled over his legs with the front passenger side tire. The employee was hospitalized for a tibia fracture and displacement.
While trying to straighten straps across a double-stacked, plastic-wrapped unit of lumber on a flatbed trailer, an employee slipped and fell about 10 feet to the paved ground below. During the fall, the employee struck the edge of the trailer bed. The employee was hospitalized with a head injury with brain bleeding, a cracked T4 vertebra, a cut left ear and contusions. Fall protection was not worn at the time of the incident.
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.
On August 30, 2025, an employee was moving product using a hand truck/dolly. He observed an electric pallet jack obstructing his path and went to relocate it. The electric pallet jack ran over his right ankle, dislocating it.
An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.
An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.