Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at DFA Dairy Brands Fluid, LLC, 1126 Kilburn Avenue, ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS 61101
on — Fractures , affecting the Thigh(s).
Final narrative
An employee was pulling a manual pallet jack through a door when he fell back to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured right femur and required surgery.
Hospitalized Thigh(s) Other constructed surface
More severe injuries at DFA Dairy Brands Fluid, LLC
An employee was moving a pallet of milk with a forklift. While backing up the forklift, his hand was caught between the forklift and a parked tractor trailer. The hand was lacerated and the employee was hospitalized.
A maintenance employee was working to repair the dry warehouse dock door that would not close. The employee fell from the elevated working surface to the ground and sustained fractures to their skull and left tibia.
A maintenance employee was installing a new belt when their finger was caught between the chain and sprocket, resulting in a right index finger amputation.
An employee was transferring milk from a front tank to a back tank. As the employee began opening the valve, his finger became caught in the valve, resulting in a left middle fingertip amputation.
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.
An employee was talking to a child on the playground, when the child grabbed her hand to lead her away. The employee stepped, lost her balance, and fell over. The employee was hospitalized with a fracture of her lower left leg and required surgery.
An employee was lowering a safe stack beam inside a trailer. The beam released, causing the employee to fall back and strike his head on the trailer floor. He was hospitalized with a brain bleed and a concussion.
An employee was on the ground working to close a trailer door. The door was caught by the wind and blew the employee backward. He landed on his back and sustained four fractured ribs, requiring hospitalization.
An employee was performing rear brake shoe service on a truck. The employee was using a prybar to remove a spring when the spring slipped from the S-cam and amputated his left index fingertip.
An employee was unjamming a case that was stuck in a case washer machine when their pants became entangled in a chain, causing them to be sprayed with hot water from the machine. They employee suffered burns from the hot water.
An employee was clearing a cup jam on a cup conveyor when their left hand was caught between the conveyor and an idler roller located on another conveyor line directly above the jam. The employee received an abrasion and friction burn to the hand that required hospitalization.
An employee was performing routine maintenance on an air valve when their right ring finger became caught in the valve. The employee sustained an amputation to the fingertip.
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.