Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries

Name: Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at BLACKSTONE CONSTRUCTION LLC.
Start: 3/11/2025

1 hospitalization · 2025032319 · 3/11/2025 · BLACKSTONE CONSTRUCTION LLC.

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Trunk and other upper extremities
Nature of injury: Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries

Cause

Event: Other fall to lower level unspecified
Source: Milling machines, cold planers, and road profilers
Secondary source: Other semi, tractor-trailer

Employer

Name: BLACKSTONE CONSTRUCTION LLC.
Location: GPS_Coordinates: 35.3472856, -93.3306844 on I-40, LONDON, ARKANSAS, 72847
NAICS: 237310
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was loading a mill machine onto a flatbed trailer. The machine went into crab-walk mode and walked sideways off the trailer. The employee jumped from the operator's platform of the machine to the deck of the trailer. He suffered a broken right arm, five broken ribs, a bruised lung, and lacerations to the kidney and spleen.

Source

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