Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk

An employee was walking, tripped over a root and fell resulting in a kidney injury.

An employee was climbing a ladder to stock shelves when he lost consciousness, falling to the concrete floor and suffering internal bleeding.

An employee was on the back of a trailer (about 3 or 4 feet off the ground), loading pieces of a roller coaster. The releasing ratchet strap holding the equipment in place slipped; the employee fell, landing on a piece of the roller coaster’s track and suffering two broken ribs and a collapsed lung.

An employee was getting down from a roof using a scissor lift when he fell 30 feet to the base of the lift scissor mechanism, suffering internal bleeding, kidney damage and multiple fractures to both legs that required hospitalization.

An employee was operating a standup forklift and was pinned between the steering wheel and rack while going around a corner, suffering three cracked ribs, a punctured lung, and a ruptured spleen.

An employee was on a ladder, pulling a 2×4 from an overhead rack. The employee fell from the ladder to the ground, suffering five broken ribs and a punctured right lung.

An employee fell from the top of an industrial truck, breaking eight ribs and a vertebra in his upper back and suffering a punctured lung. Fall protection was not being worn at the time.

An employee was picking up a spare tooth from under the wheel of a ditching machine when the machine operator lowered the crumming shoe, striking the employee. The employee suffered bruised lungs and a bruised abdomen, as well as two broken ribs.

An employee was helping another employee move a generator when he stepped onto a skylight that had been coated over. He fell about 13 feet to the concrete floor, suffering a fractured rib and internal bleeding.

An employee was on a hydraulic tank attached to the back of a truck. He slipped on hydraulic residue and fell from the tank, suffering a punctured spleen, bruised rib, and collapsed lung.