BLOOMFIELD, NEW JERSEY—
Home Depot U.S.A., Inc.
Contact with non-running objects or equipment unspecified · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Home Depot U.S.A., Inc., 60 Orange Street, BLOOMFIELD, NEW JERSEY 07003 on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).
Final narrative
An employee was helping a customer remove a lawn mower from the back of a vehicle. The employee suffered an amputation to their middle fingertip, caused by the lawn mower blades.
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A forklift backed into an employee, its rear tire striking her right foot. She fell backward to the ground and suffered a broken left ankle and right foot. She was hospitalized.
PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA—
Home Depot U.S.A., Inc.
An employee was raising an electric ladder to retrieve merchandise from overhead racking. As it rose, the railing of the machine caught his right middle finger against the bottom of the high bay netting supports, causing an amputation just below the fingernail.
MISSION, TEXAS—
Home Depot U.S.A., Inc.
An employee was working on a mini-excavator with a stuck ignition. He was shutting down the mini-excavator engine when he suffered an amputation of the left middle fingertip.
MUNDELEIN, ILLINOIS—
Home Depot U.S.A., Inc.
An employee was handling and stacking decking boards. A board fell and pinched the employee's middle fingertip against a stack of other boards, causing a partial amputation to the fingertip (without bone loss).
LITHONIA, GEORGIA—
Home Depot U.S.A., Inc.
An employee was operating a standing forklift and turning down an aisle when the forklift struck a racking post and his left leg was pinned between the forklift and the post. The employee was hospitalized with a laceration to the leg and required surgery.
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