Other fall to lower level 6 to 30 feet · Injuries to the brain, spinal cord and severe wounds, internal injuries
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at American Builders & Contractors Supply Co., Inc., 4237 MOUNTAIN LAUREL LANE, KISSIMMEE, FLORIDA 34746
on — Injuries to the brain, spinal cord and severe wounds, internal injuries, affecting the Head and trunk.
Final narrative
An employee was accessing a roof and was getting off a ladder to unload shingles that had been placed on the roof with a boom. He slipped and fell from the second-story roof, landing on a wooden pallet on the ground. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to his mandible and elbow, facial abrasions, a concussion, and a collapsed lung.
Hospitalized Head and trunk Roof surface
More severe injuries at American Builders & Contractors Supply Co., Inc.
An employee was moving wet bundles of shingles on a truck bed, when one of the bundles slipped out of his hands. He tripped over a pallet, fell off the bed of the truck, and landed on his left side. The employee sustained fractures to three ribs, and a displaced iliac fracture.
A driver was strapping down metal to put on the truck. The metal strapping snapped back and hit his left eye. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery for a ruptured globe.
An employee was putting a dolly on the crane forks. The employee fell 15 feet from a window to the ground and was hospitalized with fractures to a wrist and rib, and a possible head injury.
An employee suffered a back injury while loading shingles on a roof. The employee was hospitalized, requiring surgery for a bulging disc in the lower back.
An employee was loading shingles onto a roof when he fell approximately 30 feet from the roof to the concrete ground below, resulting in several broken bones to his wrist, legs, ribs, skull, and possibly the back.
An employee was operating a battery-powered broom to clean demolition debris off the top of the outermost bridge girder. The girder was approximately 11 feet above the demolition scaffold below. The employee fell approximately 8 feet to wind bracing below. The employee was hospitalized with a pelvis/tailbone fracture. Fall protection was in place at the time.
An employee was standing on the surface of a steel beam about two feet wide. He slipped and fell backward, landing on the concrete ground about 20 feet below. The employee sustained a broken pelvis.
An employee was cleaning out an inlet pipe in a stormwater structure. The employee stepped back, fell into the pipe, and landed on concrete 13 feet below, at the bottom of the structure. He suffered a broken back.
An employee was working on a platform, raised 6 to 8 feet in the air, to get something off a rack. The employee fell from the platform to the ground and sustained a head injury and injury to multiple body parts.
An employee was preparing to unjam an auger shaft while standing on a forklift-elevated, job-made platform. The employee's wrench slipped off the equipment, causing them to lose their balance and fall. The employee landed on the ground 14 feet below and suffered fractures to the orbital bone, left elbow, and lower back.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 236116)
An employee was adjusting the forks on a skid steer when his right index finger got pinched between the forks and the frame of the skid steer. The finger was crushed and required partial amputation of the fingernail area.
An employee was helping to install a marble plank when the plank fell on his hand. His fingers became caught between the plank and the floor, resulting in partial amputations to two fingers.
The injured employee was walking in front of the property by the front door as another employee was removing debris from the roof. The injured employee was struck by a 2 x 4 that was being cleared from the roof. He was knocked unconscious and sustained brain bleeding, as well as head and facial injuries, and required stitches.
An employee had been tasked with hauling large rocks. There was a rock caught in the tailgate of the dump truck that was preventing it from opening. He went to get the rock out and the tailgate came down, crushing his right middle fingertip. The employee sustained a fracture of the distal phalanx and required surgery.
An employee was working in a trench that was 3.5 feet deep when soil fell and hit them, resulting in an injury to their pelvis. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was helping a coworker transport a tall palm tree with a mini skid steer. The employee was severely shocked by a high-voltage electrical wire above the ground.
An employee was retrieving a Christmas tree from a shelf using a ladder. He missed a step and fell to the concrete floor. He sustained injury to his head and wrist.
An employee was operating an agricultural tractor during sugarcane harvesting. The employee sustained a lumbar sprain due to vibration or motion from the tractor.
An employee was moving a 3-ton condensing unit, strapped down on a dolly, out of a garage. The strap broke, causing the employee to fall backward onto the brick pavered driveway. The employee suffered injury to a spinal ligament in the neck.