Floorx, Inc.: OSHA inspections and violations

Incident on Mar 23, 2017: Employee's leg is fractured when tiles fall

At approximately 5:30 p.m. on March 23, 2017, an employee was working on a construction site where building renovation was taking place at multiple high rise office buildings. A subcontractor was installing ceramic tiles for the general contractor, who was in charge of renovating the buildings located in the business plaza. The employee was using a steel drywall cart to move the ceramic tiles that measured approximately 5-ft by 10-ft from the truck to the location of the job site and then inside the building where they were to be installed. As he started to move the cart of tiles from the loading dock, the caster got caught in the dock leveler and the tiles fell onto the employees leg. The tiles being transported via cart were not secured while they were being moved. The employees leg was fractured for which he was hospitalized.