Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.

An employee had been machining a part on a vertical lathe. The employee was discovered inside the housing of the machine, having suffered a broken neck, jaw, and ribs, a punctured lung and multiple lacerations. The employee was hospitalized.

The injured employee was standing on a trailer signaling a forklift operator who was loading pipe onto the trailer deck. The pipe rolled and the injured employee tried to stop the rolling pipe. The pipe knocked the employee off the trailer face first and then landed on the fallen employee. The employee was hospitalized for […]

An employee approached a hog that had gotten out of her pen. While defending its babies, the hog bit and knocked down the employee, who suffered face and arm lacerations, puncture wounds on the left arm, and a broken left arm.

An employee was pushing a rolling gate door open when he suffered a back injury: nine compression-fractured vertebrae and one compound-fractured vertebra with internal bleeding.

An employee was getting into the back seat of a vehicle when it began to roll forward. The rear tire rolled over his foot; he suffered a broken left ankle and two torn ligaments.

An employee was working from an extension ladder, about 16 feet high, to check an air conditioning vent. The ladder slipped and he fell to the ground, breaking ribs and his right arm, suffering kidney and lung contusions, and striking his head.

An employee was using tongs to pull a pipe out of a hole when he lost his grip on the tongs and they swung around, striking him. He suffered two pelvic fractures and a tear in his bladder.

An employee and another employee were performing scrapping work on site when a 2″ lip failed, causing some structure piping to fall. The pipe hit the employee, causing him to fall and land on his left foot. He broke two toes, suffered a right shoulder strain/torn muscle, and broke two right-side ribs, requiring hospitalization.

An employee was cutting grass behind the shop using a rotary mower attached to the back of a tractor. He was passing a rack that had a sputter bar when a tractor part became hooked on a pad-eye on the sputter bar, causing the rack to be pulled down onto the employee. The rack landed […]

An employee was removing a lock from the front of a 40-foot container when a third-party truck driver backed up and pinned the employee between the truck and the container. The employee suffered four broken ribs and bleeding around the liver.