Fall on same level due to slipping · Intracranial injuries, unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at BAZZINI HOLDINGS LLC, 1035 MILL ROAD, ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA 18106
on — Intracranial injuries, unspecified, affecting the brain.
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Final narrative
An employee slipped on a wet floor and struck the back of their head on the floor, resulting in hospitalization.
An employee was working in the forest flagging an area to be harvested. He took a step and his foot slipped on a stick hidden under the leaves, causing him to fall to the ground. He landed on his right foot/lower leg resulting in a fractured tibia.
An employee was inspecting an apartment to ensure it was ready for a new resident to move in. The carpet in the apartment had been recently cleaned and was still wet. As the employee went from the carpet to the tiled floor of the bathroom, they slipped and fell, resulting in a torn left hamstring.
An employee was delivering a letter along a rural carrier route when she stepped on an ice-covered snow drift, slipped, and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a right hip fracture that required surgery.
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An employee was driving a utility cart into a garage area. The vehicle struck the bottom of the garage door as it was opening and the employee sustained fractured ribs.
An employee was performing retails tasks including bending over and lifting 35-pound cases of product. After lifting about 25 boxes he felt back pain, resulting in severe nerve root compression at the base of the spinal cord due to a disc herniation. He required hospitalization and surgery.
An employee was cleaning the kitchen at the end of a work shift. As the employee and a co-worker lifted a kettle containing hot water from a hot stove to empty the water, the injured employee slipped and fell. The kettle was dropped, causing water to splash onto their hands and legs. The employee sustained third-degree burns to their hands and quadriceps.
An employee was working on a machine that grinds toffee into small pieces. The employee's hand became caught between two wheels that grind and was pulled in. The employee's hand was crushed and required surgical amputation to finger(s).
An employee was operating an enrober and diagnosing a problem with chocolate flow on the bottomer. While checking for a blockage on the infeed of the decorator chocolate well, his right index finger was pulled into the rollers and amputated at the first knuckle.
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.