Fall on same level, unspecified · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at EdAdvance, 355 Goshen Road, LITCHFIELD, CONNECTICUT 06759
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the face, unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was walking in the parking lot and fell resulting in facial injuries.
An employee was walking behind the store with another associate to get paperwork from the delivery driver when she fell on the walkway and sustained a leg fracture that required surgery.
An employee was adjusting the forks on a forklift when a fork detached from the forklift. The employee jumped out of the way but fell on the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized with a broken hip.
An employee saw smoke coming from a room and entered to a pot of oil on a hot stove. As he carried the pot out of the room, oil splashed onto both his arms, resulting in second- and third-degree burns.
An employee was walking to a work vehicle. The employee's knee gave out as they stepped off a curb, and they fell to the ground and suffered a broken femur.
An employee was cutting grass with a zero-turn lawn mower and collided with a parked vehicle in the parking lot, resulting in a broken leg and lacerations.
An employee was checking on a machine outside of the building and removed a cover to clean out a blocked area. His hand was caught by a rotary valve in a dust collection machine. The employee's fingertip was amputated.
An employee was working to clean a glue roller with a scraper tool. The tool and the employee's left thumb were pinched between two rollers, resulting in a partial amputation.
An employee was re-arranging boxes of pipe insulation on a pallet. One of the boxes fell from the pallet and knocked over an upright empty cylinder. The cylinder fell and crushed the tip of the employee's right toe. The employee's toe required surgical amputation.
An employee was securing the claw of a grapple truck to the truck bed. His left little finger was caught between the tie down strap and the rub rail of the truck, resulting in partial amputation of the finger.
An employee was cutting extruded aluminum framing material using a horizontal band saw. She went to grab a rag in the machine when the rag contacted the blade and pulled her hand in toward the blade, resulting in a partial amputation of the right index finger.