Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at People Ready, 10 W Franklin Road, MERIDIAN, IDAHO 83642
on — Fractures, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
A temporary employee was using a push broom to push recycling waste onto a conveyor belt that makes bales of recycling material. The employee was cleaning between two bales of recycling material when one of the bale wires snapped. The employee's legs became tangled in the wire, causing them to trip and fall. The employee suffered a fractured right leg.
A temporary employee was traveling to a job site. The employee's car broke down at 6:00 p.m. The employee arrived at the site at 8:00 p.m., developed symptoms of heat exhaustion at 8:15, and was hospitalized.
A temporary employee was lifting a transformer from on top of a pallet when his left index finger was caught between the pallet and the floor, resulting in a partial amputation of his left index finger.
A temporary employee was adjusting dunnage under a lifted load of corrugated metal decking when he signaled the forklift operator to let the boom out. During this process, a piece of decking slid off and hit his lower leg. He was hospitalized with a right ankle fracture and a fractured right tibia and fibula.
A temporary employee was unloading a crated kitchen range from a tractor trailer at the warehouse's dock when he mis-stepped, slipped, and lost control of the load. He then fell and was struck on the head by the falling appliance, suffering a mastoid effusion, L1 burst fracture, severed central canal, compression of conus or proximal calida equina leukocytosis, and hyperglycemia.
An employee arrived at work and was walking into the store through the parking lot. The employee tripped over a curb and fell to the ground, sustaining a femur fracture.
A temporary employee fell from an A-frame ladder to the floor about 5 to 6 feet below. He suffered fractures to his left hip and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.
A temporary employee was operating an electric pallet jack at a loading dock. While maneuvering the pallet jack into a trailer, the equipment loaded onto the pallet jack began shifting to the left. The employee's left foot was caught between a yellow guardrail and the side platform of the pallet jack, and his left ankle was crushed and fractured.
A temporary employee was cleaning a room and compressing the contents of a garbage bin using her right foot. As she pulled her leg out of the bin, she lost balance and fell to the ground, landing on her left hip. The employee sustained a fracture to her left hip and was hospitalized.
A temporary employee was filling a sweeper with gas at a construction site. He was shocked by the jumper cables, which caused him to move his right hand into the sweeper's rotating fan blades. His middle fingertip was amputated.
An employee was diagnosing the lack of flow of product to a powder bin. The employee removed the rotary star valve below the bin. While he was reinstalling the valve, his right middle finger was crushed between its shaft and its housing. The finger was partially amputated.
An employee was standing on a multi-purpose ladder installing head flashing over a window. Their feet were approximately 6 feet off the ground and three rungs from the top. The employee lost their grip on the drill they were using and the ladder tipped over. The employee fell from the ladder to the ground, resulting in a fractured left wrist, bruised chest, and lacerations to their face and lip.
An employee was inspecting the overhead area of a single-person lift and repositioning the lift through a double doorway. As they were transitioning through the doorway, they were caught between the doorframe and the vertical mast of the lift. The employee was hospitalized with injuries to the nose, left maxillary sinus, left orbital bone, and left jaw, with fractures at the maxillary sinus area.
An employee was loading a 4-inch wooden door into a pickup truck when he felt a pop in his right side behind his shoulder blade. He was hospitalized later that day and underwent surgery, having suffered a collapsed right lung.