Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.

An employee was on a step ladder installing a low voltage telecommunications cable when he fell from the step ladder to the concrete below, suffering a bruised lung, broken ribs, and a dislocated and fractured shoulder and elbow. He was hospitalized.

Two employees were repairing a filter fence around a storm drain. A semi-trailer lost its two back wheels, which struck the employees. One of the employees was hospitalized, having suffered a broken wrist, ribs, fingers, and shoulder along with head trauma.

An employee was on the second level of an aircraft maintenance platform installing tags on equipment. The employee stepped on a hole cover and it gave way, allowing the employee to fall 9 feet to the concrete floor. The employee sustained head trauma, five fractured ribs, and a fractured L5 vertebra.

An employee was cleaning up the shop area with a co-worker. There was a plunger on an I-beam. The employee picked up the plunger, then dropped it. The employee tried to catch it, and his right hand was caught between the plunger and a metal pipe stand. The employee sustained a laceration, torn tendon, and […]

An employee was inside a shipping container, securing it for transport, when a crane component shifted and wedged the employee against a neighboring frame. The employee suffered lacerations to the liver and kidneys and a fractured lumbar vertebra.

An employee was walking towards a ramp over a large pit. The employee missed the ramp and fell into the pit, landing on the floor approximately 30 feet below. The employee sustained a fractured skull, broken T-5 and T-7 vertebrae, a collapsed lung, and head trauma.

A maintenance technician was installing new plug outlets in a sixth-floor tenant space. He was standing on a 6-foot step ladder, working in the ceiling, when he lost his balance and fell to the floor. He suffered six broken ribs on the right side of his torso, as well as a bruised right lung. He […]

An employee tripped and fell on her back, suffering a broken bone in her neck, a stroke, and a blood clot.

An employee was working on a telephone pole from a ladder. The employee fell while descending the ladder, suffering two broken right-side ribs, fluid on the lungs, and a bruised kidney and liver.

An employee was instructing an excavator operator to lift a piece of reinforced concrete pipe (weighing about 10,300 pounds, 6 feet long, and 60 inches in diameter) when it rolled off the excavator bucket and onto the employee, causing a fracture and a torn ligament in his pelvis.