Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at MASHANTUCKET PEQUOT TRIBAL NATION, 350 TROLLEY LINE BLVD, ROUTE 2, MASHANTUCKET, CONNECTICUT 06338
on — Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk, affecting the abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders.
Final narrative
An employee was walking on a stage when he fell approximately 42 inches off the stage to the floor below. He was hospitalized and had to have his spleen removed.
HospitalizedAbdomen, except internal location of diseases or disordersScaffolds-self-supporting staging
More severe injuries at MASHANTUCKET PEQUOT TRIBAL NATION
On August 21, 2019, an employee was on break in the cafeteria and walking to a table when the employee slipped and fell to the same level. The employee suffered a broken hip, requiring hospitalization and surgery.
An employee was doing overhead piping work while using a manlift. The lift contacted hot water pipes that provided supply and return to a heater in a garage, causing the pipes to bow. When the lift was lowered, one of the pipes burst. The employee was burned with hot water from the pipe. He jumped approximately 10 feet from the lift to the ground and fractured his hip.
An employee was climbing a step ladder while carrying a 3-foot piece of conduit. As he went to reposition his feet on the ladder by pivoting, he slipped and fell from the third rung of a 6-foot ladder. The employee sustained fractures to the left femur, right elbow, and right ring finger.
An employee was descending a 4-step maintenance stand when she missed the bottom step and fell to the hangar floor. The employee suffered a left hip fracture.
An employee stopped a belt and was going to check it for missing packages. She fell backward 3-4 feet from an elevated platform and sustained a broken right arm.
An employee had just finished a routine concrete pour and was ascending the ladder to clean the concrete mixer truck. The employee lost their grip and fell approximately 2-3 feet, contacting the truck's bumper. The employee suffered rib fractures and a punctured lung.
An employee was performing duties as an expeditor. After opening the dock door, the employee scanned the barcode on the door of the truck and placed one foot on the truck and one foot on the dock. The truck drove out of the stall, causing the employee to fall 4 feet off the dock onto the concrete. The employee sustained fractures to the right side of the pelvis, elbow, and a left ring fingertip as well as injuries to the right wrist and bruising to the back and stomach.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 921150)
An employee was driving a golf cart on a golf course. As he dragged a tree branch with a rope in his left hand, the rope became entangled in the wheel of the cart and amputated three of his fingers.
An employee was loading a chest freezer to be thrown away. As he was lifting the freezer, the lid opened and one of his fingers was crushed between the lid and the side of the freezer. The fingertip was amputated.
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.