Fractures

An employee was standing next to a forklift when it turned and caught the employee’s leg, resulting in hospitalization with broken bones.

An employee was straightening rollers on a load when the roller’s wheels collapsed and fell on his right foot, breaking two bones.

An employee was trying to move a box jammed in racking. The box was dislodged and the employee slipped, fell, and hit the ground, suffering a broken left hip.

An employee fell from a 4-foot ladder while restocking 5 lb. bags, impacting the ground and fracturing his lower left leg.

An employee was opening a bundle of bar joists. One of the joists fell and caused another joist to hit the employee’s left leg, breaking it. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was riding on a trailer inside a closed traffic lane, picking up traffic cones. His foot slipped off, hit the pavement directly in front of the trailer tire, and was run over. He suffered a broken ankle.

An employee was transporting a patient to a psychiatric unit. The patient struck the employee in the nose with a stethoscope, breaking the employee’s nose. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was guiding a steel stair suspended from a crane hook into place to be connected with bolts. He used his sleever bar to guide and make sure the stair riser cleared the opening in the steel, but the top stair riser got hung up on the support beam. He pushed the stair riser […]

An employee was attempting to close the extended lip of a malfunctioning dock plate. He used a T-bar to prop the dock plate up while trying to disengage the dock lock with another T-bar. The T-bar propping up the dock plate fell, causing the dock plate to fall down on his left arm and break […]

While relocating his fall protection anchor, an employee slipped and fell off a residential roof onto the ground. The employee was hospitalized for back and neck fractures.