Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Lasko Products, Inc., 820 Lincoln Avenue, WEST CHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA 19380
on — Fractures, affecting the lower leg(s).
Final narrative
An employee stepped off of a stair onto the parking lot pavement, slipped on black ice, and fell breaking their left tibia.
An employee was removing a solidified plastic plug from the plastic injection port of a molding machine when pieces of hot plastic contacted the employee's skin, causing thermal burns to the right forearm.
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 333412)
An employee was at the brake press when the press was activated, causing the ram to move. Two fingertips on his right hand were crushed between the dies and partially amputated.
An employee was loading a piece of round aluminum into a CNC auto-spinning machine. Their left thumb was crushed between the tail block, the aluminum part, and the mandrel. The distal tip of the thumb was amputated.
An employee was seated at a press brake and was putting strips of steel (2-inches by 2-feet) into a brake press machine. The machine actuated and his right ring finger was crushed between the upper die and the steel material. The finger was amputated through the base of the nailbed.
An employee was using a manual spinning machine to cut out the center of an inlet. The cutter bar struck his neck and jaw, breaking the jaw and injuring an artery in his neck.
An employee was climbing a fence in pursuit of two people who had been trying to break into a facility. He fell from the fence, suffered a broken left leg, and was hospitalized.
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.