Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.

An employee was at a register checking out customers. The employee scanned toilet paper and proceeded to grab the hand-held scanner. The employee was walking around the bag carousel to the customer’s cart when the employee’s foot was caught on the corner of the fixed carousel. The employee tripped, lost balance, and fell to the […]

A telehandler operator was lifting a finishing machine to the third floor to be used to finish the concrete floor. The operator was trying to get the finisher over the safety cables and went to push the safety cable down. As the operator was pushing the safety cable down, one of the uprights holding up […]

An employee was operating a broom truck on the shoulder of a highway that was being repaired. A dump truck struck the employee’s broom truck. The employee suffered a broken arm, a dislocated elbow, a broken leg, a fractured pelvis, multiple broken ribs, a punctured lung, fractured vertebrae, and decompression.

An employee was in the center of the street applying marks to the pavement for placement of reflective buttons to mark the lanes. An SUV turned onto the street at a high rate of speed. It dragged the employee before running them over with the front and rear tires. The employee sustained injuries including: an […]

An employee was installing steel decking to the roof a warehouse while standing on a roof truss. The employee lost his footing and fell. He was wearing personal fall protection which included a full body harness, a D-ring extension, a retractable lanyard, and a beam anchor clamp. After falling approximately 21 feet, the retractable device […]

An employee was working on a drilling rig as a pipe was being raised out of the hole. The pipe struck the employee resulting in hospitalization for broken ribs, a punctured lung, and a broken back.

An employee was making adjustments on a flag indicator for a block unloader machine. The employee had climbed up onto a 12-foot-high block rack to access the flags and make the adjustments. The employee placed his right hand on the track as the unloader returned to gather another row of palletized bricks. The unloader then […]

An employee was trying to dismount the operator seat of a boom truck when he lost his balance and fell approximately 6 feet to the ground, landing on his back. He was hospitalized with six fractured ribs, lumbar vertebrae chipping, and a slight puncture of his left lung.

An employee was operating a scissor lift, traveling down a ramp in a parking garage. The lift started slipping due to the flooring conditions and a 9-degree grade. The scissor lift slid until it hit a curb at the bottom of the parking garage. When the lift hit the curb it stopped and the employee […]

An employee was lifting and moving a coil with an overhead crane. He was crushed between the coil he was lifting and another coil, suffering a cracked vertebra and internal bleeding.