Struck by other falling object n.e.c. · Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages without skull fracture
Final narrative
On November 26, 2024, employees were unloading a unit of lumber from a flatbed trailer. The unit consisted of 100 2-inch x 6-inch boards measuring 12 feet long and stacked in five columns of 20 boards each. The unit was held together by three nylon bands that were 1 inch thick. From beside the trailer, the employees cut the first two bands, and upon cutting the third band, 10 to 12 pieces of lumber fell from the top of the unit and struck the injured employee in the face. The employee suffered head injuries including a black eye, a laceration to the nose, swollen lips, and a potential brain bleed. The employee was hospitalized.
The injured employee was assisting five other employees with bracing a wall panel that was being stood up. Another employee slipped on frost on the floor surface. The employees went to evacuate the area in anticipation of the wall panel falling over. The injured employee went to jump through a window opening within the wall panel and their lower half was crushed by the falling wall panel. The employee sustained a fractured pelvis.
An employee was helping to move a 1,300-pound coil on a cart. The steel caster hit a crack in the concrete, the weld holding the caster onto the cart broke, and the coil and cart tipped over onto the employee. He was hospitalized with a laceration on his forehead and a pelvic fracture on his right side.
An employee was attempting to lift a steel beam from a horizontal, stacked position to a vertical position using a crane. They had placed two hooks on the east side of the beam on the flange. As the employee was hoisting the crane, the beam began to shift and pulled the employee forward onto the stack. When the material shifted, the hooks released and the material fell, pinning the employee between the two beams. The employee was hospitalized with soft tissue contusions on their proximal right thigh and interior left thigh.
An employee was moving a tensile strength test device with a dolly. The device fell from the dolly onto the employee's right leg, causing a compound fracture.