OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221723067

H EIKENHOUT & SONS INCORPORATED DBA EIKENHOUT INC

HARBOR SPRINGS, MI— 2024-11-11T00:00:00

Event: Blood, Blood Clot, Complication, Delivery Work, Engineering Controls, Eye, Eye protection, Flying Object, Laceration, Lack of Engineering Controls, Pallet, Pallet Wrapping Machine, Palletized Cargo, Pulling, Struck By, Stuck, Truck Driver
NAICS: 444190
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #347910291
Employer profile: H EIKENHOUT & SONS INCORPORATED DBA EIKENHOUT INC
Summary number: 221723067
Report ID: 0552652

Event description

Employee injures eye when struck by object, later dies from

Investigation abstract

At 2:15 p.m. on November 11, 2024, an employee working as a truck driver for a employee died due to complications from the blood clots. building material supplier was securing product to a pallet with a handheld plastic wrap roller. The plastic got stuck on a pallet and when the employee pulled it, the plastic wrap or something that was on the plastic wrap snapped back and struck the employee in the eye. The employee sustained a contusion to his eye with hyphema. The employee was transported to the hospital, where he received medical treatment without hospitalization. On either November 23, 2024, or November 24, 2024, the employee returned to the hospital where he was admitted due to the development of blood clots. On November 26, 2024, the

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 41 M

Event type
1

Occupation code
805

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