Fractures

An employee was pulling a 150-200 lbs. wheeled fire extinguisher unit up a 6″ lip when he lost his balance, slipped, and fell backwards down a nearby grading of stairs. The wheeled fire extinguisher unit fell with the employee and landed on his right hand. His right hand sustained multiple injuries including a broken index […]

An employee was loading 55 bags of mulch in a trailer when he slipped off the trailer to the ground and broke a bone in his right shoulder.

An employee hooked up a hose and then tripped over it, fracturing the right hip on the ground.

An employee was building an electrical rack (support rack) with an 8′ by 20′ steel plate (2,200 lbs.). The employee was helping to hold the plate vertically while a forklift driver was trying to turn it over when the forklift bumped the steel plate, causing it to fall on top of the employee’s legs. The […]

An employee was in the process of cleaning and setting a 20′ steel siderail for a mold while standing on top of the 2.5′ high mold. The employee stuck a piece of rebar into a hole of the mold to adjust the siderail’s position in the mold. The employee pulled on the rebar and it […]

Two employees were rigging down a cellar pump line while another contractor was rigging down a standpipe line. While both operations were close to each other, the crews were working separately. The injured employee had attempted to stabilize the standpipe with a come-along and forklift prior to rigging the line down, but when one of […]

An employee was working from a scissor lift and wiring a light fixture near a roll-up door when the door was activated and the employee became rolled up in the door. Nearby employees activated the door to release the employee, who fell approximately 10 feet to the concrete floor and suffered broken ribs.

An employee was installing a water calibration meter on top of the concrete plant and fell 12 feet from a concrete conveyor to the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized with a broken right shoulder and a fractured back.

An employee was putting merchandise on a mobile cart. As he was taking laundry baskets out of a box to put them on the cart, the cart moved and he tripped over one of the boxes and fell to the ground, breaking his left hip. He was hospitalized and had surgery.

An employee heard a noise and dismounted from a pallet jack to investigate. The pallet jack continued to roll when she got off and pinned her between the jack and rack, fracturing her left foot.