Other fall to lower level, unspecified · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Ward Trucking, LLC, 320 West Washington Blvd, GROVE CITY, PENNSYLVANIA 16127
on — Fractures, affecting the nonclassifiable.
Final narrative
An employee was moving freight inside a trailer for delivery. The employee fell off the truck's lift gate to the ground, suffering fractured vertebrae.
A driver was at a customer location preparing to make a delivery. He went to put the dock plate down but it slipped out of his hand and landed on his left index fingertip, resulting in partial amputation from the first knuckle.
An employee was making a delivery and operating the lift gate of his truck when his left little finger was caught in the lift gate. The employee sustained a partial traumatic amputation of the finger through the phalanx.
An employee was delivering a 10-foot skid to a residential customer when the frame of the skid broke. This caused the employee to fall off the liftgate to the concrete below and sustain a right elbow fracture and hip contusion.
An employee was moving bundles of metal channels off the forks of a forklift by hand to put on the dock floor. The banding broke and the employee's fingers were crushed between the floor and the bundle, resulting in a partial amputation of the right middle finger.
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 installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.
A driver was exiting his vehicle outside the plant gate when his foot slipped on the top step of the truck. He fell to the ground, landed on his left hip and elbow. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip/femur.
An employee was on the ground working to close a trailer door. The door was caught by the wind and blew the employee backward. He landed on his back and sustained four fractured ribs, requiring hospitalization.
An employee was working from the elevated bucket of an excavator when they fell between two tanks and landed on the ground. The employee sustained a fractured leg.
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.