Fractures

An employee was climbing the steps of the compactor roller and fell to the ground. The employee sustained fractures to the right ankle, fibula, and tibia.

An employee was about to remove the stair tower so that he and other crew members could replace it with a new tower. He was at the stair landing between the bottom floor and the second floor. He stepped up the first stair tread. The angle clip that held the tread in place was rotted. […]

An employee was coming down a ladder while holding his brick holder and shovel when he missed a step and fell to the concrete floor. He fractured his leg.

An employee was stabilizing a load on a pallet when the contents collapsed on him. He then fell out of an open dock door and landed on the receiving dock ramp. The employee sustained a head injury, two fractured ribs, and a fractured clavicle.

The injured employee was helping another employee unload a skid steer and a few attachments off a delivery truck. The injured employee was helping to guide the driver of the skid steer when his left foot was caught under the skid steer’s tracks as it moved closer to the attachments to connect them for unloading. […]

An employee was climbing into his truck cab when he fell backward, hitting his head on the concrete slab and breaking his skull.

While stepping over trays of bread, an employee tripped over a roller of empty trays and fell to the floor, breaking his right hip.

An employee was grabbing pieces of OSB board from a stack and placing them on top of shingle pallets. Four or five pieces fell, one at a time, and a corner of a piece struck the employee on the toe resulting in a fractured toe.

An employee was on a scissor lift installing sheet metal for a mini-storage unit. The employee was approximately 19 feet high when a strong wind blew the scissor lift over. The employee sustained back injuries and a broken arm.

An employee was on a 32-foot extension ladder while inspecting the roofline of a two-story residential home. The employee fell from the ladder and broke both ankles.