Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk

An employee was attempting to unjam a stick recovery machine when he was caught between the metal kicker and the metal frame. He was hospitalized with internal injuries in the abdominal area and kidney damage.

An employee was working at a residential home. While ascending a ladder outside, the employee fell around 9 feet to the ground, requiring hospitalization for a possible rib injury and a collapsed lung.

An employee was moving cows from one area to another area. When she attempted to close a fence gate, a bull struck her. She was hospitalized with a broken shoulder or collarbone and a possible collapsed lung.

An employee was in an aerial lift helping to erect precast tilt-up concrete panels. Approximately 5 minutes after the panel’s installation, workers adjusting the panel began to notice it shifting away from its structure. Immediately after noticing the shift, workers started clearing the area. Within seconds, the panel became displaced and completely fell. During the […]

An employee was pulling rods from a well and placing them in a basket on a truck. A rod fell from the basket and struck him on the shoulder. He suffered a collapsed lung and broken bones in the shoulder, and was hospitalized.

An employee was clerking and counting bundled steel pipes that had already been unloaded from a barge for a forklift to pick up and bring to a staging area. A 4×8 piece of wood used to stack the bundles broke between one of the tiers, causing the bundled pipes to roll off and pinch the […]

While sitting in his truck taking a break, an employee felt chest pains. He was hospitalized with a collapsed lung believed to be the result of cranking the landing gear on the trailer.

Employees had replaced old poles with new ones and then went back to the yard to take the old poles off the truck using tongs. The tongs shredded a pole and part of the pole bounced up striking an employee in the stomach. The employee was hospitalized with internal bleeding due to a lacerated liver.

An employee was sealing a trailer before it departed. The trailer pulled away from the loading dock and the employee fell approximately 4 feet from the loading dock. The employee sustained a head contusion, fractured ribs, and a punctured lung.

An employee was climbing a fixed ladder in order to perform maintenance services on a cooling tower. During the ascension of the fixed ladder, he fell about 14 feet to the ground onto his left side. He was hospitalized with broken ribs, damaged vertebrae/collarbone, and a bruised lung.