Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Fuyao Glass Illinois, Inc., 2768 E Elwin Rd, DECATUR, ILLINOIS 62521
on — Fractures , affecting the Thigh(s).
Final narrative
On September 1, 2024, two employees were dislodging the latch of a hopper to dump a load of glass fragments. The injured employee stopped to walk around to the other side. The other employee freed the latch and the load of glass fragments was dumped, pinning the injured employee to the ground. The injured employee was hospitalized with a fractured left femur.
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 helping to move a 1,300-pound coil on a cart. The steel caster hit a crack in the concrete, the weld holding the caster onto the cart broke, and the coil and cart tipped over onto the employee. He was hospitalized with a laceration on his forehead and a pelvic fracture on his right side.
An employee was attempting to lift a steel beam from a horizontal, stacked position to a vertical position using a crane. They had placed two hooks on the east side of the beam on the flange. As the employee was hoisting the crane, the beam began to shift and pulled the employee forward onto the stack. When the material shifted, the hooks released and the material fell, pinning the employee between the two beams. The employee was hospitalized with soft tissue contusions on their proximal right thigh and interior left thigh.
An employee was moving a tensile strength test device with a dolly. The device fell from the dolly onto the employee's right leg, causing a compound fracture.
An employee was adjusting the vacuum control valve on the right side of an A-frame arm when their finger was caught between the vent blow pipe and the control valve. The employee's right middle finger was partially amputated.
An employee was opening the milling machine when they began experiencing respiratory issues such as a running rose, coughing, and eye itching from the milling machine vapors. The employee was hospitalized.
On November 13, 2021, an employee was using a pipe wrench to unjam a pulley on a conveyor system. When the pulley unjammed, his right ring finger was caught between its frame and the pipe wrench. The fingertip was amputated at the bottom of the nail.
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.