Fractures

An employee was loading a gun safe into a customer’s vehicle with three other employees. The employee was in the bed of the vehicle when the gun safe slid onto his left middle finger, causing it to be caught between the gun safe and the vehicle. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left middle […]

On Friday, May 22, 2020, an employee was unloading materials off a sky track lift on a third floor balcony when he fell approximately 20 feet to the ground. He was hospitalized with a hairline fracture on the jaw and a broken arm.

After disconnecting a clevis from an excavation bucket, an employee bent down to pick up a stack when the excavator operator turned the excavator. The bucket then hit the employee in the head, causing a neck fracture.

An employee was attempting to move materials with a push dolly when he fell to the ground and fractured his right femur, requiring hospitalization.

An employee was herding cattle onto a truck when a calf broke away and ran over the employee. The employee suffered a fractured skull.

An employee was working on a hospital bed when the bed frame collapsed on the employee’s left hand, causing lacerations and a possible fracture.

Two employees were installing vent pipe and supports on top of a bulk storage tank. There was an explosion in the tank causing the employee working on the tank roof to fall from the tank to the ground. The employee was hospitalized for a fractured shoulder. The second employee was in an aerial lift at […]

An employee was walking while conducting housekeeping activities when her shoes became caught on the floor. She tripped and fell, striking and fracturing her right hip and the neck of her right femur.

An employee was giving hand signals to a forklift operator who was lowering a wacker packer into an elevator pit. The forklift operator had boomed out toward the elevator pit when the back wheels of the forklift lifted off the ground. The injured employee was standing on ground level on the other side of the […]

An employee was on the ground, trying to get a pallet jack unstuck from under a pallet. Another employee was trying to pry it loose using a forklift. One of the forks on the forklift popped up, hitting the bottom of the first employee’s right foot and breaking his heel. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery.