Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at A-1 Concrete, LLC, The Edge Apartments, DE FOREST, WISCONSIN 53532
on — Fractures, affecting the wrist(s).
Final narrative
On March 4, 2022, an employee was removing concrete wall forms from a poured concrete wall and stoop on a new residential construction project. While walking/working from the top of a concrete wall, the employee lowered a wall form to the ground and it caught the employee's clothing pulling the employee from the top of the wall to the dirt ground 8 feet below. The employee was hospitalized for facial injuries, abrasions, and a fractured left wrist.
An employee was preparing a tank car for loading while chipping away solidified product in the manway opening of the tank car. A pressure noise within the tank car startled the employee, causing him to stumble backward and fall approximately 10 feet over the guard railing at the chemical loading rack to the ground. The employee suffered fractured vertebrae, a fractured right wrist and ankle, and a dislocated jaw.
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