Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

An employee was removing a light enclosure. He was standing on a 8-foot A-frame ladder and was on the fifth step when he lost his balance and fell to the ground. He injured his left knee and was hospitalized for surgery.

An employee was driving when his vehicle hit a fire hydrant. He injured his left knee.

While approaching a set of stairs, an employee fell and struck the leading edge of the second step injuring his left knee.

An employee was transferring water at high pressure through a hose. The hose failed and a jet of water knocked the employee through the air approximately 150 feet. When the employee landed on the ground he suffered a shoulder injury.

An employee was on a roof and getting a new battery for his drill when he fell through a fiberglass skylight and injured his right elbow, requiring surgery.

An employee caught and injured their right middle finger inside a door jam.

An employee’s left ring fingertip was caught between the cylinder and motor as he was performing maintenance on a compressor.

An employee was walking alongside a forklift moving decking. He was wearing a harness because he would eventually have to go up to an elevated position. The lanyard from the harness became caught on a pipe, causing the employee to fall, which then caused the load to shift. Decking sheets then pinned the employee’s left […]

An employee was injured while advancing a pallet of hollow core doors on a conveyor to the door unit assembly machine. The employee’s foot slipped between conveyor rollers causing an ankle injury.

On December 18, 2016, an employee fell off a bolted 30-foot ladder while trying to cover a hole on top of the burr house cyclone. He hit his head on the ladder rail and injured his spine during the fall to the ground, requiring hospitalization.