Fractures

An employee was driving a luggage cart in the drive lane. Another cart approached from the opposite direction; the employee swerved and made contact with a parked luggage cart. The parked cart’s spring-loaded hitch detached and struck the employee, breaking the employee’s ribs.

While walking out of an elevator, an employee tripped and fell on her right arm, fracturing it in two places.

Two employees were performing monitoring well services for environmental compliance. One of the employees was kneeling to remove a well cap when a car that had just been fueled drove away from a pump and ran over the employee’s right leg. The employee suffered a broken tibia and was hospitalized, undergoing surgery.

An employee was operating an all-terrain forklift on a construction road. The forklift drove off the gravel road and rolled over onto its side. The employee sustained fractured ribs, a fractured C6 vertebra, and a vertebral wedge fracture.

An employee was walking to a cash register when he tripped on a trash can and fell on the floor. He sustained a broken femur that required surgery.

An employee was part of a roofing crew that was demolishing a roof. The employee was walking toward the roof ladder when he fell through a section of the roof that had been cut out. He landed on the ground about 18-20 feet below, broke the left leg, and was hospitalized.

An exit swing conveyor (which directed piping to a quenching machine) was undergoing maintenance. The swing conveyor abruptly cycled and swung to the left, pinning an employee’s leg against a building column. The employee suffered a broken right femur and was hospitalized.

Employees were using a front-end loader to load equipment onto a trailer when the equipment shifted, striking an employee’s hand and trapping it between the equipment and the trailer. The employee sustained a broken right pinky finger that required surgery and received stitches on the right ring finger.

An employee was operating a forklift when she hit a safety barrier and injured her lower left leg.

An employee was pulling a barrel of bell peppers when the employee was struck by the right rear tire of a forklift, suffering bruising, lacerations, and possible fractures to the right foot, ankle, and lower leg.