Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at IRON MOUNTAIN INC, 2322 French Settlement Road, DALLAS, TEXAS 75206
on — Fractures, affecting the nonclassifiable.
Final narrative
An employee slipped on an ice-covered parking lot while leaving his vehicle. He suffered multiple fractures and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.
An employee was securing a customer's 65-gallon shred bin inside the cargo space of a straight truck. He fell from the lift gate to the asphalt surface approximately 46 inches below and was found unconscious. The employee sustained fractured ribs, a partially punctured lung, a forehead laceration, a blood contusion to the brain, a sprained wrist, a contusion to his eye, and an abraded forearm.
An employee was stacking boxes of documents on a pallet when he fell 16 feet through an opening in an adjacent guardrail to the concrete floor below. He fractured his right patella, left elbow, left wrist and humerus, facial bones, and left femur. He also suffered head lacerations.
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 493190)
An employee was assisting with maintenance and servicing a conveyor that was making an unusual noise. The employee's right arm got caught in the conveyor between a belt and a roller. Their right hand and arm were crushed, resulting in amputation of the arm.
An employee was using a skid loader to clean an area of loose debris (straw shed). He was lowering the bucket when the arms/bucket of the skid loader pinned his feet against the step of the loader. The employee sustained fractures to both feet and was hospitalized.
A Merit Logistics employee was pushing an egg crate out of a trailer. While working to get it over the lip of the dock, she lost her footing. Crates fell on her, breaking her tibia.
After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.
An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.
An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.