Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at ABC Supply Co., Inc., 18614 Jamaica Avenue, JAMAICA, NEW YORK 11423
on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Other finger(s) n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was loading materials onto a truck bed with a forklift. The employee was loading a skid onto the trailer and as they were lowering it there was a piece of wood stuck on the underside of the skid. They went to manually remove it, and it came down and pinched the employee's right index finger between the skid and the truck. The employee sustained a partial amputation to their right index finger.
After loading shingles, an employee was unhooking from the roof to come down. He fell to the ground while wearing fall protection and sustained fractures to his lower right arm and left heel.
An employee was climbing a ladder from a driveway to a roof. The ladder kicked out from under him and he fell roughly 8 feet, landing on the ladder where it lay in the concrete driveway. He suffered fractures to the right forearm and wrist.
An employee fell through a new construction roof to the concrete floor, suffering a broken left femur and left radius, a chin laceration, and a left eyebrow laceration.
An employee was distributing shingles on a roof that was under construction. The roof collapsed from under him and he fell to the concrete floor 15 feet below. He suffered fractures to the left upper femur and the left radius, as well as lacerations to the chin and left eyebrow.
An employee was standing on a ladder, having climbed it to change out glass on a broken window above a patio door. The ladder slipped and he fell 8-10 feet to the concrete ground below. He suffered bleeding in the brain, a broken right wrist, a fracture/dislocation to the left elbow, and a broken lower left leg. He was hospitalized.
A crew was installing drilled micropiles alongside an outdoor covered deck foundation. The injured employee was working the front of the drill when a loose section of casing dropped onto the tip of a rig wrench and pulled the wrench down to an embedded casing. The employee's left little finger was caught between the rig wrench and the embedded casing and was amputated above the top knuckle.
An employee was checking a pole-type transformer tank for leaks. A hydraulic clamping device was lowered onto his right thumb and crushed it against the sharp edge of the bottom of the tank. He suffered a partial transphalangeal amputation to the thumb.
An employee had been cleaning the work area. While lifting a saw, the employee's index finger was lacerated by the saw blade. A tendon was cut and required surgery.
An employee was installing a hydraulic extension cylinder in a tow truck when their leg was caught between the cylinder and the truck frame. The employee was hospitalized with a broken tibia, which required surgery.
An employee was sorting sucker rods. His right hand was caught in the area where the rod hits up against the frame and his index fingertip was amputated just below the nail.
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