Other fall to lower level, unspecified · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at XPO Logistics, 369 Ledger Road, NORTH HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA 15642
on — Fractures, affecting the foot (feet), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was putting the dock plate into a trailer. His foot slipped and he fell, suffering a broken bone in his foot.
An employee exited his forklift to hang straps on a trailer and the forklift rolled forward into the trailer, striking his leg. The employee sustained a broken leg and was hospitalized.
An employee was dropping off his trailer after arriving at the terminal. As they were removing a dolly from the rear of the dual trailer set, their hand was crushed in a pinch point between the converter dolly and the back of the lead trailer. The employee sustained fractures to the left hand.
An employee was working on a tractor trailer in the shop. As he was removing a spring pin for the front suspension, the spring unloaded stored energy and caught the employee's right middle finger between it and the mounting bracket for the spring. His right middle finger was amputated to the first knuckle.
An employee was hitching a converter dolly to a yard dog so that it could be moved. The yard dog drove forward and the employee was struck by the dolly, resulting in two fractures above the ankle.
An employee was on an A-frame ladder retrieving materials from a shelf. He slipped and fell and his leg got caught in the ladder rungs, breaking his left tibia.
An employee was unloading materials from a flatbed trailer when they fell from the trailer and landed on the ground. The employee sustained a fractured left leg.
An employee was unloading appliances at a customer location for delivery. The employee was moving a water heater to be placed on the liftgate when he stepped backward and fell to the ground. The employee sustained rib and back injuries.
An employee was picking bulk bags for shipments. While cleaning pellets off the ground, a stacked bulk bag (full of plastic pellets) collapsed and fell on the employee. The employee sustained fractures to their ribs, pelvis, and left femur.
An employee was delivering goods to a customer. He was folding the truck's lift gate when his left middle finger was pinched in the lift gate, resulting in an amputation.
An employee was operating an electric pallet jack, delivering pallets of groceries to a store. The employee was walking backward when her foot was pinned between the pallet jack and a video pole, resulting in lacerations and fractures to her ankle and heel. She was hospitalized.
An employee was tightening a turnbuckle while attempting to conduct lash-back operations on a ship when their left gloved hand was caught between the upper and lower turnbuckles. The employee suffered a crush injury to the little finger that resulted in a fingertip amputation.
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.