Strains

An employee was pulling an online grocery cart when they felt pain in the abdomen. The employee sustained a muscle strain.

An employee was pulling a line of baggage carts when he pulled a muscle in his back.

An employee was unloading a box that was positioned on a pallet. The forklift driver came over to move the pallet. The forks did not go all the way in. When the pallet was moved, it shifted and pinned the employee’s left leg between the pallet and a flatbed trailer. The employee suffered hyperextension of […]

An employee was on the roof on his knees drilling holes on the edge of a building with a hammer drill. He used force to push the hammer drill into the concrete edge of the building and strained his left knee.

An employee was lifting a patient and suffered a neck strain. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was removing an injection bottle from a riser pole using an extended fiberglass pole when he felt a strain in his chest.

At about 8:15 a.m. on October 31, 2018, an employee lifted a 5-pound fishing net and felt pain. The pain intensified and he was hospitalized.

An employee was driving around the warehouse order picking when the employee started experiencing lower back pain, requiring hospitalization for a lower back strain.

An employee climbed up a ladder to reach an operator’s platform to show the operator how to push buttons for a loader. As the employee was descending from the platform ladder, he twisted his body and suffered a lower back strain.

Two employees were tying rebar and getting ready to pour a concrete slab for a ramp to a parking lot of a multi-family dwelling under construction. A vehicle struck a temporary chain link fence that the employees were working in close proximity to causing it to fall over onto the employees and trap them. One […]