Fractures

An employee was operating a forklift when material wrapped around the employee’s leg and forklift, resulting in a broken ankle/leg.

An employee was operating a skid loader. While his feet were resting outside the front of the cab, he lowered the bucket, which then pinched and broke both of his feet.

An employee was flagging traffic as part of an equipment road crossing effort. The employee had successfully stopped the first vehicle when a second vehicle approached the traffic control scene behind the first. The second vehicle suddenly swerved to the right, contacted the first vehicle, and then struck the employee. The employee was hospitalized with […]

Two employees were working in a manhole within a roadwork zone. A vehicle crossed into the work zone and struck the employees. One of them suffered multiple fractures and was hospitalized.

An employee was helping to restrain a combative patient in an emergency room. The patient attacked and fell backwards onto the employee’s left leg, causing a fracture that required hospitalization and surgery.

An employee was climbing a fixed ladder while carrying plastic to place the plastic over a hole on the roof that was leaking due to a storm. He slipped and fell approximately 12 feet off the ladder to a lower level, fracturing his right wrist and right hip.

An employee was working to remove a section of catwalk that was approximately 30 feet high when he stepped from the catwalk section being removed onto the assumed catwalk to be left in place. The planking of the catwalk bent, causing him to lose his balance and fall to the ground. He suffered a broken […]

While drilling a hole for installation of a dirt infiltration system, the machine became unbalanced and tipped over. The employee suffered a fractured foot.

An employee was stepping into a vehicle at a customer site, holding a package she had just picked up. She fell to the ground, suffering a broken right femur.

On May 7, at approximately 10:24 AM, a temporary employee was standing on a platform while insulation was being rolled on a laminating machine’s mandrel when his hand was pulled into the rotating mandrel. He suffered a cervical fracture in his neck and two fractured bones in his right arm, requiring hospitalization and neck surgery.