Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Burris Logistics, 490 Brook Street, ROCKY HILL, CONNECTICUT 06067
on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was using a pallet jack and pinched their little finger between the pallet jack handle and racking resulting in a fingertip amputation.
An employee was using a pallet jack to pull a pallet of inventory. He was backing up when he struck a cross member of the pallet rack behind him. The employee sustained an amputation to the right index finger.
An employee was operating a powered pallet jack when it struck a pallet of product on a stand-up forklift. The employee suffered a fractured tibia and fibula and a muscular injury.
An employee was walking on a metal walkway to get more roofing materials to patch a building's flat roof holes when he tripped, fell, and hit his head on the grated metal floor, resulting in a concussion and head laceration. He was hospitalized.
An employee was struck by a forklift while riding a pallet jack, suffering a compound leg fracture. The forklift driver's view was obstructed at the time.
An employee was training on an rolling container carrier on the dry, non-frozen storage side of the distribution center. She made a turn around the end cap and her right foot struck the rail protecting the endcap racking. The employee's foot was fractured.
An employee was a passenger in a utility vehicle that was driving up a hill on a wooded trail. As the vehicle made a right turn, three fingers on the employee's right hand were caught against a tree and fractured.
An employee was traveling down the maintenance aisle of a warehouse on a single-pallet front rider jack. The jack malfunctioned, causing the brakes to apply; the employee fell forward onto the concrete warehouse floor. The employee suffered an injury to the left leg and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.
An employee was operating a double pallet jack. While he was pushing a pallet back, the pallet jack moved and the handle crushed his finger against racking.
An employee was offloading tools from a van and walking them over to the curb. He lost his footing and fell while carrying a jackhammer. The jackhammer fell and caught the employee's right little finger against the curb. The employee's finger was amputated.
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.