Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Hogan Dedicated Services, LLC, 540 Pequonnock Street, BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT 06604
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the lumbar region.
Final narrative
While entering his tractor trailer on the driver's side, an employee felt a pop in his lower back. He did not slip or fall. After driving for one hour, the driver's seat came out of locked position and he sustained pain in the lower back.
HospitalizedLumbar regionBodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
More severe injuries at Hogan Dedicated Services, LLC
An employee was unloading freight at a store when he lost his balance and fell off the truck trailer to the ground, resulting in head and shoulder injuries.
Two employees were sliding tandem axles on a trailer. Three of the four locking pins released, but the fourth would not. One of the employees used a hammer to get the last pin to release. When the pin released, the trailer lowered and the injured employee's head was caught between its tire and frame. He sustained contusions to the face and head.
An employee was stepping out of a trailer onto a ladder when his boot got caught on the ladder step and he fell to the ground, resulting in a fractured left elbow and left femur.
An employee was tying down a tractor on a flatbed trailer with tie down chains. He then stepped back off the trailer to the ground, and felt pain in his left hip. The employee sustained a torn hip flexor.
An employee was unloading tools. As they stepped off a lift gate of a box truck to the trailer, their left knee buckled, causing the right knee to buckle as well. The employee sustained a right knee fracture and a ruptured quadriceps tendon on the left and right leg.
An employee fell while exiting a trailer. The employee landed on their left side on the pavement, suffering multiple broken ribs on the left side. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was hooking up a set of 28-foot trailers, attaching a converter dolly to the lead trailer's pintle hook. He backed up the lead trailer and parked it a foot from the converter dolly, then lifted the converter dolly and rolled it to the lead trailer to set it onto the hook. The converter dolly kicked up, and the employee's left hand was caught between it and the trailer. He suffered a severe laceration to the palm between the ring finger and middle finger.
An employee was cleaning the windshield of his truck. When he stepped down from the truck, he lost balance and reached to catch himself using the side mirror. The impact fractured his left wrist. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.
An employee was standing on the DOT bumper on the back of a standard 53-foot trailer. The employee lost his footing and his grip on the handle bar, and fell approximately 42 inches to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left hip/femur.
A driver was making a delivery. As he was climbing onto his trailer to get boxes, the strap he was using to pull himself up broke. He fell from the back of the trailer to the ground, landing on his right leg and breaking his femur.
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.