Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Big Y Foods, Inc., 22 Spencer Plain Road, OLD SAYBROOK, CONNECTICUT 06475
on — Concussions, affecting the brain.
Final narrative
An employee was walking to her car after finishing her shift when she slipped and fell on snow in the parking lot during blizzard conditions. She fell on her back and was later hospitalized for a concussion.
An employee was readying an electric pallet jack when his ankle was caught between the moving pallet jack and a wall. The employee sustained broken bones in a foot and was hospitalized.
An employee was walking through the sales floor when he tripped and fell, sustaining a left knee fracture and a left eye laceration. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee walked through the main entrance when he noticed the rug at the entrance was rolled up in order to bring out pallets of firewood. He attempted to put the rug back when he tripped on the rug, fell onto his right side, and was unable to move his right leg. The employee suffered a break in the ball of his hip joint.
An employee was in a trailer checking the temperature of perishable goods when they tripped over a pallet and fell backward onto the concrete dock. The employee sustained a fractured wrist and two fractured fingers.
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.
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 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.