Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Simon Property Group, Inc., 549 S Chillicothe Rd, AURORA, OHIO 44202
on — Fractures , affecting the Thigh(s).
Final narrative
An employee was scraping paint off a building panel while on the ground. Ice fell from the roof and struck the employee. The employee sustained a broken right femur and was hospitalized.
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 backing up a forklift to pick up a pallet of materials when it struck a yellow cement pole in front of a building support beam. His left hand was crushed between the forklift and the pole, resulting in amputation of a finger.
An employee was behind a building loading wood pallets onto a trailer when they were attacked by an unknown individual, falling to the ground and losing consciousness. The employee suffered fractured ribs, contusions, and hearing loss.
An employee was manually loading a pallet jack that was parked on a lift gate when he lost his footing and fell to the ground below, resulting in four fractured ribs.
An employee was removing caulk around a pool at a stadium. Some caulk broke as he was pulling it, causing the knife/scraper in his hand to slip and cut his cornea and eyelid.
An employee was preparing to burn a brush pile. When they lit the fire with a lighter, the gasoline vapors ignited catching the employee on fire and causing burns to multiple body parts. The employee suffered second-degree burns on 19% of his body including his arms, hand, leg, back, neck and shoulder.
An employee was working to deliver mail to an apartment building. She was waiting for a customer to move, to obtain clearance to the mailboxes. The door swung inward and closed on her right little finger. The top half of her finger was surgically amputated.
An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.
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An employee was setting up communication equipment for a meeting. They were walking and tripped over a speaker on the ground. The employee sustained a leg injury.