Fractures and dislocations

An employee was placing a tarp on a trailer when he fell to the ground, dislocating his left hip, fracturing his pelvis, and suffering abrasions.

An employee’s left foot was caught and fractured between the forks brace and step of a skid steer. His big toe was also severely dislocated.

An employee was working on top of the roof installing drains and fell approximately 25-30 feet to the ground breaking both legs and ankles and displacing a hip.

On March 01, 2017, a forklift driver was trying to lift a base pallet so the injured employee could place a 4X4 wooden board under it. The forks slipped off the base pallet and struck the employee’s jaw. The employee suffered a broken/dislocated jaw.

An employee was changing the boom cable on a drum. He was standing between the boom drum and the holding drum on the frame below. While feeding the dead end of the cable with his left hand, he was using his right hand to balance himself on the drum. In the process, his right hand […]

An employee fell off a 20-foot ship ladder, suffering a fractured left elbow, dislocated left shoulder, broken left ankle, two broken ribs on his right side, and a broken right leg.

An employee fell off a flatbed trailer while loading material onto it. The employee fractured his clavicle and ribs and displaced his scapula.

While climbing down an attached, caged ladder from a boiler unit, the employee slipped and fell roughly 15-20 feet breaking his right femur and dislocating the left knee.

Two employees were on a job site inspecting the area above the roof to see where the next storefront frame was going to be installed. They set up a ladder and the first employee began climbing while the second employee held the ladder for him. The ladder was sitting on a deck made of composite […]

On Thursday, October 5, 2016, at approximately 3:15 p.m., an employee was descending from the fourth deck of a scaffold (5x16x40) after installing blinds. At the 8-feet mark, he lost three-point contact and fell to ground level, dislocating and fracturing his left elbow. His PPE was not connected at the time.