Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Tecomet, 253 Abby Rd, MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE 03103
on — Fractures, affecting the hip(s).
Final narrative
An employee got up from her desk, tripped over a box that was next to her work station, and fell resulting in a broken hip that required hospitalization and surgery.
An employee was using an overhead crane to remove a spacer plate from a machine. The plate had been raised over the machine, and the employee was trying to remove the bolts connecting it, when it dropped onto the employee's right hand and broke his thumb.
An employee arrived at work and was walking into the store through the parking lot. The employee tripped over a curb and fell to the ground, sustaining a femur fracture.
On August 15, 2025, an employee was in a small room right before the exit. The door in the little room was locked. The employee climbed over a wall and hopped down to the other side, falling and resulting in a twisted right ankle. The employee was hospitalized.
On August 14, 2025, an employee was assembling cables using a molding machine. When the machine was engaged, the mold came down and caught the employee's left hand, amputating three fingers.
On August 8, 2025, an employee was operating a table-top injection molding machine. He refilled the barrel of the machine with resin and began a pack procedure in which the plunger of the machine moved into the barrel to compress plastic pellets into the mix. The plunger caught and amputated his fingertip.
An employee was working to move a pallet jack that had gotten stuck between the dock and the trailer. When the equipment was loosened, it struck the employee, throwing them backward onto the ground. The employee sustained fractured ribs and injury to their spleen and liver.
An employee was lowering the bucket of a track loader that contained a grade stake and the grade stake punctured his foot, resulting in hospitalization and surgery.
An employee was using a pike to move a pallet of sugar that was stuck in the powder racking. The employee fell backward, landing on his right leg. The employee's leg was fractured and he was hospitalized.
An employee was working to fix the forks on a forklift when the fork(s) fell on her toes. The second and third toes on her right foot were fractured, lacerated, and required stitches.
An employee was delivering a 65-foot boom lift to a rental customer's construction site. The employee set up the ramp truck in the parking lot adjacent to the construction site. He elevated the boom 4-5 feet to clear a temporary fence. While driving the boom lift off the ramp, the wheels slid to the driver's side of the ramp truck, ultimately sliding off the ramp. The boom lift fell off the side of the truck and rolled onto its side. The employee sustained a fractured clavicle, a dislocated shoulder, separated/fractured ribs, a punctured lung, and a fractured left femur. The employee required surgery.