NAPA Auto Parts - Motor Parts & Equipment Corporation
Overexertion in pushing, pulling, or turning-single episode · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at NAPA Auto Parts - Motor Parts & Equipment Corporation, 1198 4th Avenue South, PARK FALLS, WISCONSIN 54552
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified.
Final narrative
On August 27, 2023, an employee was rolling a 55-gallon drum of diesel fuel off a pallet and injured his back. The employee was hospitalized.
HospitalizedBack, including spine, spinal cord, unspecifiedBarrels, drums-except pressurized
More severe injuries at NAPA Auto Parts - Motor Parts & Equipment Corporation
An employee was pushing tables together to seat a party of 20 when he felt a sharp pain and experienced difficulty breathing. The employee was hospitalized for a collapsed lung.
An employee was carrying a plastic tote full of brake rotors. His foot caught the corner of a pallet, causing him to fall to the concrete floor and break his hip.
An employee was working on a vehicle in a bay. As he turned around, his foot caught on the leg of a lift and he heard/felt a snap and pop in his right hip and fell. The employee sustained a torn hamstring in his right leg.
An employee was installing a driveshaft on a customer's vehicle. He was using a floor jack to hold the driveshaft in place to line up the bolts. The driveshaft moved off the jack and crushed his left ring fingertip, resulting in an open fracture of the tuft of the distal phalanx, as well as a partial amputation.
An employee was in a truck, helping a team lift a 55-gallon drum into the truck. The employee fell to the ground and suffered a broken left arm. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.
The injured employee was assisting five other employees with bracing a wall panel that was being stood up. Another employee slipped on frost on the floor surface. The employees went to evacuate the area in anticipation of the wall panel falling over. The injured employee went to jump through a window opening within the wall panel and their lower half was crushed by the falling wall panel. The employee sustained a fractured pelvis.
An employee was using a vertical band saw to cut a thick piece of rubber material. While being cut, the material shifted, causing the employee s right hand to contact the moving blade. The employee's thumb was amputated below the knuckle. The employee was hospitalized, undergoing surgery.
A production sanitation employee was pre-rinsing an incline conveyor and noticed cheese stuck between the belt idler. The employee went to remove the cheese and their glove got caught and pulled their left forearm into the conveyor. The employee's arm was fractured. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.
An employee was on a ladder, taking measurements for a new gutter installation. The ladder slipped out from under him and both he and the ladder fell to the ground. He was hospitalized with seven broken ribs and a broken clavicle.
An employee was unloading a truck for a delivery job. While moving boxes in the truck, the employee tripped over a pallet and fell out of the truck to the ground, resulting in four broken ribs.