Merchant Wholesalers Durable Goods

NarrativeAt 6:45 p.m. on June 3, 2019, an employee was working at a customer's facility in the first trucking bay, installing a windshield on an International Pro-Star Truck. The employee was working from a ladder and was on the side of the vehicle when he fell and scratched his leg against the semi truck's tire. The employee was taken to the emergency room, where he was prescribed an antibiotic. The employee had an allergic reaction to the medicine 10 days later and died.

NarrativeAt 11:30 a.m. on May 28, 2019, an employee was killed while filling a tire on a motor grader with foam. The tire became over pressurized and ruptured, causing the employee to be struck by part of the tire assembly.

NarrativeAt 6:20 p.m. on March 14, 2019, Employee # 1 was standing beneath the roof of the container, which weighed approximately 350 pounds. He was bending over to pick up some bolts. After setting the roof onto the four support columns, a coworker, the forklift operator, attempted to raise the forks to remove them from the area. The forks had some straps and hooks hanging down and one of the hooks accidentally grabbed ahold of the underside of the container roof. Since the roof was not secured to the four columns, one corner of the roof became dislodged and raised off one of the four columns. As a result, the corner of the roof fell on top of Employee # 1. He was hospitalized and his third vertebrae of the neck was fractured.