Struck by other falling object n.e.c. · Other traumatic injuries n.e.c.
Final narrative
At about 8:30 a.m. on February 11, 2025, four employees were removing a 5-foot-long waster sleeve from under a vessel. A raised platform was being used to allow a pneumatic jack to press out the waster sleeve. The employees stacked four wooden blocks, about 12 inches by 12 inches by 51 inches, and placed a 3/8-inch blank plate on the blocks. They then placed the pneumatic jack on the top of the blank to press up the waster sleeve from the underside of the vessel. The jack was put into action, but the waster sleeve did not move. The block structure became unstable, collapsed, and struck an employee in the lower left shin area. The employee developed swelling in the lower leg that resulted in hospitalization for compartment syndrome that required surgery.
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.