Fractures

An employee was adjusting the chain on an arm pole when the employee’s right ring finger was caught between the pole and its stand and fractured.

An employee was feeding wood into the chipper when a board kicked out and struck him in the left hip, which was fractured. He was hospitalized.

Employees were organizing iron beams with an overhead crane and sweeping the work area when the steel beam tipped over and pinned the injured employee’s legs, causing fractures to both.

An employee was standing at the edge of an approximately 48-inch diameter hole that was approximately 18 feet deep. The employee was using a winch cable off the back of a drilling rig with a hook on it, attempting to retrieve a shovel that had fallen into the hole, when he lost his footing and […]

An employee was descending a structural fixed ladder when the employee lost grip and fell approximately 10 feet to the lower level. The employee suffered fractures to the right and left ankles.

An employee was installing a pipeline in a trench. The employee coiled tubing on a spool and was attempting to tie in two pipe ends when the pipe slipped and flexed, striking and fracturing the employee’s fibula.

An employee had climbed up a fixed ladder on a roof parapet wall to install conduit when he fell 9 feet through the fixed ladder opening to the roof below. He was hospitalized with fractured vertebrate and lacerations to the head .

An employee was operating a standup forklift when he stopped his lift on a shipping dock in front of a door. A sit-down forklift was backing out of the door and hit the employee’s leg, pinning it between the two lifts. His left leg had a fractured femur, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

An employee was moving lumber when his leg was pinned between two bundles of lumber. He was hospitalized with a broken leg.

An employee was walking across a repair bay doorway when a vehicle struck him, causing a closed fracture of the right tibia.