Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels

Name: Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels at Lowe's Home Improvement, Store #1580
Start: 1/16/2024

1 hospitalization · 2024010434 · 1/16/2024 · Lowe's Home Improvement, Store #1580

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Multiple internal chest locations
Nature of injury: Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels

Cause

Event: Struck by object dropped by person
Source: Roofing shingles and sheets
Secondary source: Secondary source not applicable

Employer

Name: Lowe's Home Improvement, Store #1580
Location: 1525 S Yale Avenue, TULSA, OKLAHOMA, 74112
NAICS: 444110
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was helping a customer load corrugated metal roofing that was 8 feet long and weighed 10.8 pounds per sheet. The employee lost his balance and approximately 10 sheets of metal fell on top of him, resulting in a punctured lung and broken ribs on his left side.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
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