Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk

An employee was standing on the floor of a drilling rig while hooking up a Kelly hose to a pipe. The hose struck him below the left shoulder blade, and he rolled off the rig and fell to the ground. He suffered kidney trauma, broken ribs, and a liver laceration.

Two employees were rigging up centrifugal equipment. One employee was on the solids control equipment stand when it gave way, causing him to fall and sustain three fractured ribs and a punctured left lung. The other employee was on the ground near the stand when it collapsed, resulting in a fracture to his lower left […]

An employee slipped and fell to the ground while getting down from a work vehicle. The employee sustained two broken ribs and a ruptured spleen.

An employee was on a roof guiding insulated roof panels into place to secure them into steel beams with self-tapping bolts. He was working with two other employees who were in a scissor lift. The roof panel slipped from the beam at the peak before being secured and fell to the scissor lift below. This […]

An employee was standing up while riding on the back of a scissor lift. The employee was crushed between the scissor lift’s rail and an exterior metal door frame, resulting in broken ribs and blood in the lungs.

A third-party truck was departing the facility and stopped at the gate. An employee was walking over to the passenger side of the truck to talk to the driver and got caught in between the gate and the truck as the gate was closing. The employee was crushed and sustained internal bleeding.

An employee slipped and fell while getting out of a truck, suffering a broken rib and punctured lung.

An employee was standing on a ladder trying to remove an anode when the anode struck him and he fell 4 feet off the ladder onto a dirt berm. He landed on his right waist area and was hospitalized with kidney and liver lacerations.

An employee was inside a trench putting lube on a laid pipe when an iron pipe came loose from a backhoe and struck him, injuring his left side and left lung.

An employee was on a ladder when it slipped on the smooth floor, causing the employee to fall. He suffered a laceration to the left knee, fractured left-side ribs, and a punctured left lung.