Fractures

While in the process of unloading pre-tied mats of rebar, one of the bundles fell off of the tying jig and pinned three workers underneath. Two of the workers were unharmed. A third employee suffered a fractured rib and a fractured vertebra.

Worker caught a hand in a running conveyor while cleaning and rinsing it. Worker suffered broken radial and ulnar bones in the right arm. The victim was hospitalized.

An employee was hospitalized after being hit by a forklift that was unloading boxes of pulp from a flatbed stationed in the roadway. The forklift backed up and ran over the employee’s leg as he was leaving work, resulting in a fractured ankle and leg.

An employee was struck by an excavator on 01/02/2015 and hospitalized for injuries to his leg, several broken bones in his foot, and a fracture in his left arm.

An employee stumbled and fell to the ground on the left side of her body and was admitted to Irving Baylor Medical Center with a possible hip fracture.

Two employees in a scissor lift were wrecking forms, taking forms down, and removing the forms. They lost their grip on the form, which fell and hit an employee walking below on the shoulder, knocking him to the ground. He hit his head on the concrete, causing a wound to the head, a broken collarbone, […]

The employee was coming down a ladder after placing media in a nitrogen generator. Employee missed a rung, fell about 10 feet to the floor, and sustained a compound fracture to the right arm.

Employee tripped on a paver and fractured her wrist, requiring hospitalization.

Three correctional facility guards were escorting a restrained federal prison inmate when he became disruptive, requiring the use of force. Two guards and the inmate fell onto the Lieutenant’s right leg, fracturing his fibula. He was transported to the hospital and released the following day.

An employee working on the Line 6 Auto-Beller reached into the machine to unjam two pipes and got his hand crushed, fracturing three left-hand fingers.