Fractures

An employee was standing on a customer’s dock when a reversing forklift struck the employee, resulting in a broken left arm and hand.

An employee fell from a 71-inch stair platform, suffering a broken right arm and right hip. The platform did not have a handrail at the time of the incident.

An employee tripped over a cord while maneuvering around a resident’s bed, striking the ground and requiring hospitalization for a broken pelvis.

An employee was bringing a patient something to drink when she tripped on a toy and fell, striking her head and fracturing a vertebra.

An employee was struck by crane as the company was performing a rig move. The employee suffered a fractured left heel.

An employee was in the stock room hallway when a construction worker asked the employee to move a piece of sheet rock by hand. The sheet rock fell and struck the injured employee’s leg, breaking it.

An employee was walking on the deli department sales floor, tripped and fell on her right shoulder. The shoulder was fractured.

Employees at an oil rig were breaking down its blowout preventers. After removing the preventers from the wellhead, they put a wooden board on the ground to set the preventer on and keep it from getting muddy. When one employee unhooked his tagline from a preventer, the preventer shifted and the locking stem on its […]

An employee had just finished painting a metal carriage for battery handling. The employee was pulling the carriage out of a paint booth to put it in a blast oven when it slipped out of the employee’s hand and the momentum from pulling it caused the employee to fall to the ground. The employee broke […]

Employees were moving 10×10-foot panels to screw onto a structure. The crane that was being used made the structure move, hitting an employee who was on a ladder. The employee fell off the ladder and sustained a fractured pelvis.