OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221430440

MENARDS INC.

HOLIDAY CITY, OH· 2022-01-10T00:00:00

Event: Adjust, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Brain, Brain Bleed, Elevated Work Plat, Elevated Work Platform, Fracture, Hand Tool, Head, Overhead Door, Repair, Set Screw, Skull, Struck By, Tension
NAICS: 493110
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345742514
Employer profile: MENARDS INC.
Summary number: 221430440
Report ID: 0524700

Event description

Employee injures head when struck by ratchet

Investigation abstract

At 10:10 p.m. on January 10, 2022, an employee was adjusting a powered overhead door that wasn't raising properly. The employee was working on a high tension spring on the door from an elevated personnel basket. As the employee was loosening the second set screw, the spring began to unwind causing the fabricated winding bar to fall out of the collar socket. The energy stored in the spring released resulting in the employee's ratchet striking him in the head. The employee was hospitalized to treat a fractured skull and brain bleeding.

Victim

#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 28 M

Event type
1

Occupation code
519

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