Other fall to lower level, unspecified · Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Restaurant Equipment Service Group LLC, 2318 Wabash Ave, SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS 62704
on — Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified, affecting the nonclassifiable.
Final narrative
An employee fell from a roof and was injured.
HospitalizedNonclassifiableRoofs, unspecified
More severe injuries at Restaurant Equipment Service Group LLC
An employee was using a ladder in order to access the top of a walk-in cooler. The walk-in cooler was outdoors and the conditions were below freezing and icy. The employee slipped and fell approximately 5 feet to the ground, resulting in two fractured bones in the lower half of the right leg.
An employee arrived at the shop to pick up parts. He used a lift jack to move crates, uncrated a crate, took the parts out and set them on the side. There was a heavy metal pole that is used for the lift jacks that fell off the shelf and hit his hand. He sustained the amputation of the left middle fingertip.
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 moving a 3-ton condensing unit, strapped down on a dolly, out of a garage. The strap broke, causing the employee to fall backward onto the brick pavered driveway. The employee suffered injury to a spinal ligament in the neck.
An employee was closing the side cargo door to a company van. The tip of his finger got caught between the door and the door jamb, resulting in a partial amputation.
While working at a customer's residence, an employee was cutting tape with a box cutter to wrap insulation for a piece of pipe. The box cutter struck a hardened object within the wall causing it to bounce back and puncture the employee's right eye. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was assembling a baker type scaffold. He was beginning to transverse down the scaffold, approximately six feet off the ground, when the scaffold tipped over and he fell. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured femur.
An employee was trimming out sprinklers on the exterior of a building when he fell off an extension ladder. He landed on the ground and sustained fractures to his nose and arm.
An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.
An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.