Inspection Detail

Inspection: 1472100.015 - Cersosimo Lumber Company, Inc.

Inspection Information - Office: Vt Department Of Labor - Vosha

Investigation Summary

At 4:46 p.m. on April 7, 2020, an employee was working as a machine operator at a sawmill. He was working in the facility's Mill # 1 lumber stacking area. Employees there worked near a stacker. It was a piece of machinery equipped with forks. It took boards up to 16 feet (4.9 meters) in length and assembled them into lumber packs approximately 76 inches (6 feet, 4 inches; or 1.9 meters) tall, measured from the floor. The boards were set on sticks as the stacks were built. As employees built the packs, they were exposed to displaced boards that could strike them. They were also exposed to the forks of the stacker as it lowered the boards to set them on the sticks. At the time of the incident, the employee was between some stacks. He was resetting a stick in a lumber pack, he was struck by the stacker and pinched between the stacker and the lumber pack. The employee received crushing injuries to his lower torso. He also suffered a broken vertebra, bruising of his internal organs, a broken pelvis, and a ruptured bladder. He was hospitalized.

Keywords: Broken Bone, Caught Between, Crushed, Fracture, Helmet, Ind Trk Operator, Lumbar Injury, Lumber Stack, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Obstructed View, PPE, Pelvis, Pinched, Powered Industrial Vehicle, Rupture, Sawmill, Stack, Stacker Crane, Torso, Training, Unstable Load, Vertebra