Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Fractures and soft tissue injuries
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Overhead Door Company of Grand Island, 2812 West Old Highway 30, GRAND ISLAND, NEBRASKA 68803
on , Fractures and soft tissue injuries, affecting the ankle(s).
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Final narrative
Employees were changing a broken spring on the inside of a storage unit. The injured employee was taking a pipe wrench off the torsion tube when the pipe wrench slipped off the tube, causing the employee to fall backward from the second rung of a 6-foot ladder. They fell to the concrete floor and landed on their right foot, resulting in a dislocation and fracture to the right ankle.
HospitalizedAnkle(s)Portable ladders and stairs unspecified