Slip, trip, stumble while stepping between levels · Fractures and soft tissue injuries
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Beacon Building Products, 5624 American Legion Road, TYLER, TEXAS 75708
on — Fractures and soft tissue injuries, affecting the Multiple lower extremities locations unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was in the yard and stepped onto bundles of shingles on a pallet to count inventory. The employee then stepped down from the bundles to the pallet approximately 16 inches. The employee's ankle/foot rolled, resulting in a fractured tibia and fibula as well as a torn ligament.
An employee was stowing the outrigger at the rear of his truck when his right little finger was pinched between the outrigger and the frame of the truck. He sustained a fracture and the amputation of his finger.
An employee was using a conveyor to convey shingles to a roof. The conveyor's chain and sprocket caught the tip of the employee's left middle finger, amputating it through the finger bone.
An employee was on a truck attempting to stow an aluminum extension ladder onto the truck's conveyor boom system. As the conveyor mast was lowered, the boom control area came down on top of the employee's left foot, resulting in two toe fractures.
An employee was moving a roll of commercial rubber roofing from a small stack. The employee fell and landed on their right shoulder, causing it to become dislocated. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was unloading roofing products from a flatbed truck when they tripped over a strap on the truck bed and fell to the ground, resulting in a dislocated left ankle.
An employee was walking through a parking garage. She tripped over a curb and fell forward onto her right knee, then her left knee, both hands, and her face. She suffered an injury to the left knee that required surgery, as well as scrapes on the chin and both palms and soreness in the left wrist.
An employee was dropping customers off with a shuttle. He stepped out of the shuttle and his foot entered a pothole, causing him to twist his ankle and then fall to the ground. The employee sustained multiple dislocations to the ankle requiring surgery.
An employee was approximately 5 feet up on a ladder while drilling a hole for cable installation. A wasp attacked him. As he was coming down the ladder, he landed flat on his feet on the ground, and his right leg was twisted. The employee sustained a fractured tibia.
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Employees were at the trucks to leave for lunch. The injured employee was putting the cone back after the crew leader pulled the truck forward from the designated worker parking area. The injured employee then ran back to the truck. As he went to get in the truck, he said the upper thigh area of his leg was hurting. He laid on the ground outside the truck and crew leader could see a bump/bulge in the the injured employee's upper thigh area below his hip. The employee sustained a fractured femur and required surgery.
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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.
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