Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Freeman Expositions, Inc., 415 Summer St, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02110
on — Hernias, affecting the Abdomen unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was walking the show floor. While placing/applying graphics, he tripped and fell over a raised area of the carpet. A utility hose and cord ran underneath the carpet. The employee was hospitalized with a hernia and required surgery.
An employee was on a dock, looking for the next trailer to load, when a forklift was making a right-hand turn onto the trailer and hit the employee. The employee suffered a broken ankle and lacerations to the hands, head, and left leg.
An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.
The injured employee was standing behind a table. She jumped out to scare another employee, but tripped and fell on the tile floor, injuring her right ankle/foot. She was hospitalized with a dislocated ankle that required surgery.
An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.
An employee was struck by the counterweight of a moving powered industrial truck. They were hospitalized with a fractured left ankle and fractured right leg, and underwent surgery.
An employee was at a temporary job site setting up for a conference when she slipped on soap on the floor in a room and fell onto her back, resulting in vertebral compression fractures in her lower back that required hospitalization and surgery.
The injured employee was walking down the ramp from the employee entrance when another employee lost their grip on a garbage cart. The garbage cart struck the injured employee, resulting in hospitalization with a right hip fracture that required surgery.
An employee was tossing hay through a second-story barn window. One of his hands was caught in a net holding a bale of hay, and he was pulled through the window. He suffered a head injury and broken ribs.
An employee was operating a chain hoist to lift a lighting rig. The motor was phased inverted and caught the glove on his left hand in the chain, crushing his middle finger and amputating the fingertip. The employee required surgery.
An employee fell while exiting a trailer. The employee landed on their left side on the pavement, suffering multiple broken ribs on the left side. The employee was hospitalized.
Two employees were setting up a mandrel in the spindle of a machine. The mandrel was side-shifted while an employee's hand was on the mast of a powered industrial truck. The employee suffered crushing injuries that resulted in amputations to the middle and ring fingertips.
An employee had been loading a double deck press. The employee saw a mold had been sent in with the C-hook still attached on the belly bar. As he went to remove the hook from the mold, his right thumb got caught on the C-hook. The employee's thumb was partially amputated.
An employee was operating a roller and paving a small pathway next to a pavilion. The ground was on a slight pitch, causing him to reach up toward the roll cage to stabilize himself. His right fifth finger was pinched between the roll cage and the rafter of the pavilion. The employee sustained a partial degloving injury with partial traumatic amputation.
An employee was delivering home heating fuel when bees came from the ground and stung the employee's face, neck, torso, and hands. The employee proceeded to shut off the oil flow before losing consciousness. They were hospitalized due to an anaphylactic reaction.