Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments

Name: Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments at Harger Utility Contractors, Inc.
Start: 3/27/2019

1 hospitalization · 2019033204 · 3/27/2019 · Harger Utility Contractors, Inc.

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Lower leg(s)
Nature of injury: Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments

Cause

Event: Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
Source: Special process machinery, unspecified

Employer

Name: Harger Utility Contractors, Inc.
Location: First Quality Tissue, LOCK HAVEN, PENNSYLVANIA, 17745
NAICS: 237130
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was using a vacuum to suction sand out from the bottom of an air filter bed used to filter fiberglass during paper production. The employee stepped down from a plywood plank being used as a temporary work platform; the employee's foot got caught between two dividers in the filter bed, causing the employee to fall. The employee suffered a torn anterior inferior tibiofibular ligament and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
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