Struck by object tipping over · Amputations involving bone loss
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at United Refrigeration Inc, 230 Wawarme Ave., HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT 06114
on — Amputations involving bone loss, affecting the Toes(s), toenail(s).
Final narrative
An employee was re-arranging boxes of pipe insulation on a pallet. One of the boxes fell from the pallet and knocked over an upright empty cylinder. The cylinder fell and crushed the tip of the employee's right toe. The employee's toe required surgical amputation.
An employee was climbing down from the back of a stake body truck using the ladder that is part of the truck. At the last step, he lost balance and fell to the blacktop. The employee hit their head, lost consciousness, and felt dazed once they woke up. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was pulling a steel parts handcart when its wheels caught on something and locked up. The cart fell backward. The cart handle struck the middle of the employee's right foot, breaking bones. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.
An employee was manually moving a tall cart filled with pints of ice cream within the facility. While transferring the cart toward the exterior of the receiving area, the cart passed over a floor drainage grate, became unstable, and fell toward the employee, pinning him underneath. The cart and its contents landed on his lower right leg, resulting in multiple fractures.
An employee was moving a ramming machine to a staging area. While using the controls on the side of the machine, there was a sudden heavy rainfall causing the equipment to slide. The ramming machine tipped over and caught the employee against the ground. The employee sustained a fracture to the right side of their pelvis and was hospitalized.
An employee was transporting a cart containing instruments and packs to the operating room. The cart tipped over and fell on top of the employee. They sustained pain in their lower back and radiculopathy in their lower extremities.
An employee was moving a transformer from inside a shop. He was rolling it down a ramp when it tipped over onto his right foot and big toe, resulting in crush injuries and a laceration.
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An employee was cleaning off a magnetic table when their right hand brushed against the wheel of a running grinder. The employee sustained an amputation of the middle fingertip and an injury to the ring fingertip with a loss of tissue that required surgery.
An employee was walking on top of shelving units and lost his footing. He fell and hit another shelf and then struck his head on the floor, resulting in a broken wrist and a brain hematoma.
An employee was checking on a machine outside of the building and removed a cover to clean out a blocked area. His hand was caught by a rotary valve in a dust collection machine. The employee's fingertip was amputated.
An employee was working to clean a glue roller with a scraper tool. The tool and the employee's left thumb were pinched between two rollers, resulting in a partial amputation.
An employee was securing the claw of a grapple truck to the truck bed. His left little finger was caught between the tie down strap and the rub rail of the truck, resulting in partial amputation of the finger.
An employee was cutting extruded aluminum framing material using a horizontal band saw. She went to grab a rag in the machine when the rag contacted the blade and pulled her hand in toward the blade, resulting in a partial amputation of the right index finger.
An employee was using a cordless circular saw to relieve the long edge of a 1/2" rabbit cut on a 1 1/2" piece of chair rail trim. The piece of chair rail kicked out of the employee's hand and his left hand contacted the rotating saw blade. The employee's ring fingertip was amputated and he sustained lacerations to the middle, ring, and little fingers.