Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c. · Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at The Giant Company, 4655 Perkiomen Avenue, READING, PENNSYLVANIA 19606
on — Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds, affecting the toes(s), toenail(s).
Final narrative
An employee's right little toe caught a wooden pallet and was punctured by a splinter from it. He was hospitalized.
An employee was moving pallets of water. A pallet started to lean, and the employee moved to its side to push the 35-pack of water and straighten the product on the pallet. The water fell and knocked the employee to the ground, and the employee suffered a dislocation to the left hip as well as a fracture to the hip socket. The employee was hospitalized, requiring surgery.
A pallet was being moved through a store backroom on a powered pallet jack. The side of the pallet struck an employee, causing them to fall to the floor and suffer a broken left hip.
An employee was collecting shopping carts in the parking lot when they lost their balance and fell to the pavement. The employee sustained a fracture to the shoulder.
An employee was standing on a piece of cardboard in the bakery department when she lost her balance. While trying to brace her fall, both her hands went into the hot oil in a donut fryer. She sustained burns to both hands up to the wrists and was hospitalized.
An employee was unnesting tote bags when her grip slipped and the back of her left hand hit a box containing a steel step stool that was adjacent to the tote bags. The employee's hand was fractured.
An employee was cleaning up and putting away equipment when the second toe on her right foot was stubbed on a fixture, resulting in hospitalization and a subsequent amputation of the toe.
An employee was walking when he tripped on a concrete vault lid, jamming his big toe into the tip of his steel toe boots. The employee's big toe was medically amputated.
An employee was cleaning a bathroom. As the employee bent over, the corner of a sink hit the employee's right eyeball, causing an injury that required hospitalization and surgery.
On September 23, 2023, an employee was cleaning near a conveyor when they knelt with their right knee on the floor. Their knee contacted a small piece of glass on the floor, resulting in a laceration that required hospitalization.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 445110)
Employee 1 was investigating a gas odor. While employee 1 was checking the equipment, a gas explosion occurred, resulting in a fire that burned the employee's face. Employee 2 entered the area and a second explosion occurred, causing burns to their face and arms. Employee 2 was hospitalized.
An employee tripped while walking from one store register station to another. Her forehead struck a register, and she suffered fractures to two vertebrae in her neck. She was hospitalized.
An employee was stocking and ordering the meat case on the sales floor when he slipped and fell due to water on the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured ankle and required surgery.
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.