Fractures

Name: Fractures at Lowe's Home Improvement
Start: 10/29/2020

1 hospitalization · 20201010284 · 10/29/2020 · Lowe's Home Improvement

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
Source: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
Secondary source: Girders, beams, structural steel

Employer

Name: Lowe's Home Improvement
Location: 1175 Rombach Avenue, WILMINGTON, OHIO, 45177
NAICS: 444190
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was operating an order picker. As the order picker was raised the employee's left hand fingers were caught between the order picker cage and a ceiling I-beam resulting in two broken fingers.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown