Other contact with non-running objects or equipment n.e.c. · Traumatic injuries or exposures unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Spartan Education Group LLC, 11945 Airport Way., BROOMFIELD, COLORADO 80021
on — Traumatic injuries or exposures unspecified, affecting the Head unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was performing a magneto timing service on a four-seat, single-engine, fixed-wing aircraft. The timing service requires the propeller and the engine to be moved/rotated. When the propeller rotated, it struck the employee, causing a head injury. The employee was hospitalized.
Hospitalized Head unspecified Airplane propeller-driven or piston engine
The injured employee and a co-worker were moving a tank car loaded with molasses from the loading station to the designated side of the facility using a wheel loader to pull the rail car. The employees reached an incline and applied the handbrake. While they repositioned the wheel loader to push the rail car the remaining distance to their destination, the rail car started to move backward. The injured employee climbed onto the rear platform of the car to tighten the brake, but the rail car collided with the loader bucket and the employee suffered fractures to their right femur and tibia.
An employee was adjusting the turnbuckle on the sash chain of a rolling overhead fire door using pliers. The turnbuckle detached from the bracket and the bracket rotated, striking the employee's forearm. The employee was hospitalized with a laceration.
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