Fractures

An employee was climbing down a scaffold, lost his grip while transitioning to a ladder, and fell 12 feet to a pallet on the ground below. He sustained a twisted ankle and broken bones.

An employee was setting hollow-core plank at a new construction site. The employee fell from the third floor to the second floor, suffering a broken rib and a broken bone in the back.

While delivering products an employee fell about 5 feet off the back of a truck bed and sustained a broken humerus.

Employees of Sundown Operating, Inc., and Axis Energy Services, LLC were working at an old oil/gas well plugging the well and getting ready to rig down. The Axis Energy Services employee was working from the platform operating the snubbing equipment. The casing from the well bore connected to the primary BOP broke causing the secondary […]

An employee was working to free a stuck overhead door. While trying to get a roller back into the track, a bottom plate which was under tension, came loose, and sprung up striking the employee in the forehead. The employee sustained a forehead laceration and possible skull fracture in the frontal lobe area.

An employee fell from a conveyor, landing about 10 feet below and breaking his kneecap.

An employee was cleaning the top of a 19-foot tank. The top gave way and he fell to the bottom, suffering fractures to a lower-back vertebra and four toes on the right foot.

An employee was loading a box truck. The employee fell off the lift gate, landing about 4 feet below and suffering a broken left arm.

Employees were clearing underbrush and trees to clear a path for a road to be built. An excavator, used to move a downed tree, struck an employee in the left leg, causing an open fracture.

An employee fell approximately 10 feet from the second elevated platform to the first elevated platform of an elevated sort tower and landed on the guard rail resulting in a fracture injury.