Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Liberty Lift Solutions, LLC, 16420 Park Ten Place, #300, HOUSTON, TEXAS 77084
on — Fractures, affecting the lower leg(s).
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Final narrative
An employee was on top of a haul truck trailer, taking tiedowns for a pumping unit's crank guard to be lifted with a crank. The employee fell approximately 5 feet off the trailer and landed on one foot, resulting in fractures to the tibia and fibula, which caused a muscle injury. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery.
HospitalizedLower leg(s)Trailers
More severe injuries at Liberty Lift Solutions, LLC
Employee 1 was operating a crane to move a pumping unit. Employee 2 was holding a tag line. The crane lifted the pumping unit and began rotating clockwise to place it on top of a concrete base. The front driver s side outrigger and float began to sink into the ground, causing the crane to lean over. This caused the pumping unit to swing and strike into an adjacent wellhead, breaking some piping and causing a fire. The crane then fell over and it's boom broke piping on a second wellhead, contributing further to the fire. Employee 1 fell out of the cab and crawled out of the fire. He sustained burns to his face and hands and had fractured ribs. He was hospitalized. Employee 2 was burned on his cheek, arm, and leg.
A crane's auxiliary line was tangled with its anti-two-block device's weight. An employee pulled on the line to free it; the slack released, and his left little fingertip was caught between the weight and the line. The fingertip was amputated.
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 using a torch to loosen a bolt on a water trailer. Natural gas was present in the water and it ignited, causing a fire. The employee sustained third-degree burns to their upper leg.
An employee had been conducting crane operations. The employee went to stop a piece of oil and gas equipment for tubular running from falling over to the ground. Their right hand was caught between a rolling ladder and the equipment, resulting in fractures to the index and middle fingers. They were hospitalized and the middle finger required surgery.
An employee was working to install a drive belt on a water pump. He was holding the belt on both sides of the pulley, working to route it over the top. As he pulled down with his right hand, the pulley rotated and the belt slid over it, pulling his left little finger between the pulley and the belt. He suffered an amputation to the fingertip as well as a fracture to the ring finger.
After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.
An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.
An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.