Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Nutrien Ag Solutions, 1 mile south and 1 mile east of Eastland IL, HOOPESTON, ILLINOIS 60942
on — Fractures, affecting the lower leg(s).
Final narrative
An employee was on the platform of a nurse wagon in the field when they lost balance and fell 28 inches to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured right tibia and fibula.
An employee was exiting his ten-wheel dry fertilizer truck when he missed the hand hold and fell 3 feet from the step to the ground below. The employee was hospitalized with an injury to his left hip and shoulder.
An employee was cleaning up a pile of fertilizer near a transfer conveyor when his shirt got caught by a rotating shaft on the conveyor. The employee's right arm then contacted the shaft and was fractured.
An employee was unloading chemical boxes from the back of a box truck. He tripped and fell from the truck to the ground, landing on his head. The employee sustained a neck injury.
An employee was climbing a step ladder while carrying a 3-foot piece of conduit. As he went to reposition his feet on the ladder by pivoting, he slipped and fell from the third rung of a 6-foot ladder. The employee sustained fractures to the left femur, right elbow, and right ring finger.
An employee was descending a 4-step maintenance stand when she missed the bottom step and fell to the hangar floor. The employee suffered a left hip fracture.
An employee stopped a belt and was going to check it for missing packages. She fell backward 3-4 feet from an elevated platform and sustained a broken right arm.
An employee had just finished a routine concrete pour and was ascending the ladder to clean the concrete mixer truck. The employee lost their grip and fell approximately 2-3 feet, contacting the truck's bumper. The employee suffered rib fractures and a punctured lung.
An employee was performing duties as an expeditor. After opening the dock door, the employee scanned the barcode on the door of the truck and placed one foot on the truck and one foot on the dock. The truck drove out of the stall, causing the employee to fall 4 feet off the dock onto the concrete. The employee sustained fractures to the right side of the pelvis, elbow, and a left ring fingertip as well as injuries to the right wrist and bruising to the back and stomach.
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An employee was troubleshooting equipment. Due to an equipment malfunction, the employee fell off a beam that was 12-feet high above a powder mixer. He struck another piece of equipment on the ground level and ended up on the ground, unconscious. The employee was hospitalized with burns to his hands, a brain bleed, and fractures to his wrist, pelvis, and tailbone.
An employee was filling an ammonia nurse tank. Ammonia (NH3) released from a valve and contacted the employee's chest. The employee also inhaled ammonia vapors and was hospitalized.
An employee was dumping a load of trash from a self-dumping hopper into a roll-off dumpster. The hopper shifted while the load was dumping and pinched the employee's left hand against the forklift forks. The employee's fingertip was amputated.
An employee was working on a glyphosate tote line. As she was backing up on a 13-inch-high platform, one of her feet slipped off and she fell backward. Her head struck the floor and she lost consciousness, suffering a skull fracture and a brain bleed.
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.