Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Traumatic injuries or exposures unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Transformco, 8374 N 4000 East Road, MANTENO, ILLINOIS 60950
on — Traumatic injuries or exposures unspecified, affecting the Knee(s) and leg(s).
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Final narrative
An employee was salting the yard area outside of the building using a salt spreader on a pickup truck. He slipped on ice and fell. The employee suffered left knee and tibia injuries that required hospitalization and surgery.
Hospitalized Knee(s) and leg(s) Other constructed surface
An employee was at a customer's house to take measurements in the attic. The employee went up the pull-down attic steps. While in the attic, he stepped back and fell 8 feet through the attic opening to the floor. The employee hit his head and was hospitalized.
An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.
The injured employee was standing behind a table. She jumped out to scare another employee, but tripped and fell on the tile floor, injuring her right ankle/foot. She was hospitalized with a dislocated ankle that required surgery.
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.
An employee had been tarping and securing cargo for transportation on an open deck trailer. He was working outside throughout the day and sustained heat exhaustion requiring hospitalization.
An employee was descending the ladder on a self-loader truck when his right ring finger was lacerated by sharp teeth the ladder has for gripping boots. The employee sustained a severe laceration which resulted in an amputation.
An employee was folding down a ladder to his tanker when it became unsteady and his right index finger became pinched in the ladder. The employee was hospitalized and his fingertip was surgically amputated below the nailbed.
An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.
An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.