Fall through surface or existing opening 16 to 20 feet · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at J&E Companies, 7899 Wagley Robertson Rd, FORT WORTH, TEXAS 76131
on — Fractures, affecting the ankle(s).
Final narrative
An employee stepped on a scaffold platform that did not have support and fell 19.5 feet to the floor. The employee's right ankle was fractured, requiring hospitalization and surgery.
An employee was on a scaffold installing a frame. He fell from the scaffold to the ground and sustained a fractured left wrist and bruises between his legs that were caused by his harness.
An employee was standing between a forklift and an elevated bucket while trash was being dumped. The forklift operator drove the forklift into the employee and struck the employee's cell phone. The cell phone exploded, and the employee was pinned between the forklift and the wall. The employee sustained cuts and burns to the left gluteus.
On November 16, 2023, at around 3:30 p.m., a subcontracted employee was painting a door jam on a three-story house when he fell 20 feet through an opened elevator shaft to the floor below. The employee sustained fractured vertebrae that required hospitalization.
Employees were removing and replacing skylights on a metal roof. The injured employee's lanyard became tangled and they fell through the skylight to the ground 16-18 feet below. The employee suffered fractures to the wrist, ribs, and hip.
An employee was requested by a client to string wire on top of an auditorium. He used a boom lift to access a beam and then exited the boom lift to walk on the beam. He then stepped down on a drop ceiling, lost balance, and fell. The drop ceiling caved in and the employee fell 20 feet onto bleachers sustaining injury to his abdominal area and lower left leg. The employee was wearing a harness, but it was not connected to an anchoring point at the time of the fall.
An employee was installing decking (steel grates) in a new construction steel framed building. The employees were working approximately 22' above the next lower level, which was a concrete ground floor. The decking was pre-cut with the floor opening prior to installation. Shortly after installing the floor opening, the employee fell through the floor opening, approximately 18' onto a section of metal ductwork, resulting in fractures to the skull, ribs, thorax, and lumbar vertebra, as well as an ear laceration.
An employee was taking measurements of an area for drywall when they stepped backward into a partially covered hole in the floor. The employee fell approximately 17 feet to the level below, sustaining a forehead fracture and avulsion, a right shoulder dislocation, a left forearm fracture, left knee tendon and meniscus tears, as well as multiple contusions and abrasions.
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