Fractures and dislocations

An employee was using a lattice boom crawler crane to unload a 20-ton section of anchor chain from a vessel. As the employee was moving the anchor chain with the crane, the crane flipped over. The employee jumped out of the cab as the crane was flipped over was injured. The employee sustained broken teeth, […]

An employee was standing on the engine compartment of a manlift lining up the holes on the boom to apply the pin. As another worker hit the pin, it vibrated and caused the employee to lose his balance. He fell 7′ 3″ to the ground, fracturing his right wrist, dislocating his left collarbone, and suffering […]

An employee was walking down the hallway, tripped and fell resulting in a dislocated and broken left elbow.

An employee was climbing a two-step ladder, mis-stepped, lost her balance, and fell to the concrete floor resulting in a fractured and dislocated right wrist.

An employee was screwing a mechanical bar into rebar in concrete but was having trouble threading the bars. He used a drill to try to get the bar to go in, and caught the glove of another employee in the drill. This caused the injured employee’s left hand to spin around breaking his left pinky […]

An employee was installing a metal jacket onto a 12″ plumbing line. He was on a slope, lost his footing and rolled his right ankle. This resulted in a dislocated and fractured ankle.

A forklift operator was transporting product when the forklift hit an overhead door and ejected him. He dislocated his ankle and fractured his fibula, requiring hospitalization.

An employee was driving a stand-up forklift when he turned a corner and ran into a stationary forklift. His left ankle hit the forks of the stationary forklift, suffering an open fracture and dislocation.

An employee was cutting a tree limb when it swung back and hit his leg. He suffered a lower right leg fracture and dislocated kneecap, requiring hospitalization.

An employee was on top of a trailer tarping a load. As he was stepping down, his right foot was caught in the plastic tarp. He tripped and fell off the top of the load, landing on the ground and suffering an open distal radius fracture with radiocarpal dislocation and an L2 compression fracture.