Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.

An employee was working at the loading dock, lowering an automatic dock leveler to unload a trailer. The lift gate on the trailer was raised 4 to 6 inches above floor level when the dock leveler caught against the lift gate. When the employee reached down at the floor level to operate the switch that […]

A masonry contractor was helping to move a mattress in a home owner’s 2nd floor condo. The masonry contractor did not observe that a glassed area had the glass wall removed and he fell through the open area. The employee was taken to hospital for a broken collarbone, three broken ribs and a head injury.

An employee was operating a paddle valve in an elevated lock position on the global SCM running tool. The valve self-assisted to the open position crushing his left pinkie finger between the paddle valve and the SCM running tool frame. The employee had an open laceration as well as an open fracture that was repaired […]

An employee was assisting another employee in hooking up a hose to a vacuum truck. The manifold over pressured and exploded, and the valve connected to the tank truck sheared, releasing solvent. The explosion knocked the employee to the ground breaking his arm, injuring his left eye and rupturing his eardrum.

Employees were dismantling a system scaffold 20 feet in the air. When one of the employees removed a gravity pin that was holding a coupling pin for a scaffold leg, the leg released and fell 20 feet below striking another employee on the right arm above the elbow and on his right middle finger. The […]

An employee was walking down the stairs and fell forward approximately 3 feet. She dislodged several teeth and fractured her gum line and upper jaw.

An employee was assembling a mobile set of stairs while standing on a ladder. The employee was trying to get a strap off a platform and fell from the ladder to the lower level. The employee suffered a broken jaw and right shoulder fracture.

An employee was struck in the face while blowing down a reinjection line at an oilfield production location, resulting in facial bone fractures, a hole in the roof of his mouth, tooth loss, and a big gash on his right cheek near/under the lower edge of his safety glasses. He required surgery.

An employee was handling a windmill edge protector as it was being lifted by a crane. The edge protector fell on top of him as he stood underneath it, fracturing his neck and compressing his spine vertebrae.

At approximately 11:30 on 15 September 2015, an employee was hospitalized when he was struck in the chest by a cap on a pressure vessel that he and another employee were removing. Remaining pressure in the pipe leading to the pressure vessel caused the cap to violently dislodge during the procedure and strike the employee […]