Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk

An employee was on a riding lawn mower when it tipped over into an embankment. The lawn mower fell on top of him resulting in collapsed lungs, fractures to the wrist, ribs, collar bone, shoulder blade, and cheek bone as well as cuts to the left ear and wrist.

An employee was working on a 24-inch PVC pipe when it struck the employee, causing broken ribs and possibly collapsed lungs.

An employee was helping a sheet metal foreman measure a small sheet metal roof over the dock. The employee walked onto the sheet metal roof and fell through a flush skylight on the canopy. He fell 16 feet, landed on some 55-gallon drums, bounced, and ended up on the dock concrete flooring. He was hospitalized […]

An employee was on top of an 18-foot flatbed trailer, delivering trees (stacked two high on the trailer) to a nursery. He fell from the trailer to the ground 8 or 9 feet below, suffering broken ribs and a collapsed lung. He was hospitalized.

While moving from one work station to another, an employee was struck by a moving piece of pipe. He suffered a broken rib and a collapsed lung.

Employee fell from a dock to the ground, breaking three ribs and bruising his lung.

An employee entered a trench (about 7 feet deep and 7 to 8 feet wide) to install a fitting on a sewer main at the bottom. The trench’s one vertical wall collapsed onto the employee, who suffered four broken ribs, a collapsed lung, and a broken shoulder blade.

An employee was preparing to hook a chain to a broken, wooden light pole laying on the ground. A backyard machine tipped over and the boom attachment fell onto the employee. The employee sustained a lacerated spleen, a fractured back, a crushed diaphragm, multiple broken ribs and internal bleeding.

An employee was standing near a winch truck that was being used to pull out a workover rig that was stuck in the mud. The winch cable was hooked to a cross member on the rig. The winch truck driver attempted to pull on the rig and the cross member welding broke. The cross member […]

An employee was struck by a motorist while installing a temporary traffic control pre-warning sign. The employee sustained a fractured pelvis and a ruptured bladder.