OSHA Injury Reports

An employee was cleaning up after replacing a motor on a conveyor. While trying to pick up the old motor it slipped and fell. The employee tried to catch it and the motor fell on his right hand causing broken bones.

An employee was assisting others carry a 3/4″ pipe. When he stepped on the edge of a 4″ concrete pad, the employee’s ankle rolled and fractured.

An employee was part of a crew installing guardrails on the side of the highway. The employee was knocked down by a concrete truck and the truck ran over his toes. The employee suffered toe fractures that required surgery.

Employees were using a rope puller to load a broken chipper onto a flatbed trailer. When the rope puller was tensioned, the hook broke; the rope and broken hook rebounded, striking an employee. The employee suffered a broken right arm and internal bleeding.

An employee was unloading a trailer with a pallet jack when she tripped over an empty pallet and fell. Her left foot was struck by the pallet jack wheel resulting in fractures.

An employee was riding on the side of a front-end loader. It passed a pile of hardened dirt, which caught the employee’s leg. The employee fell to the ground and suffered a broken right tibia.

An associate was walking through the lawn and garden center and tripped over a grate in the ground and fell resulting in a broken left elbow that required surgery and hospitalization.

As an employee was repositioning a steel box fan, a can of glue fell into the fan. When the employee attempted to retrieve the can, her right hand contacted the fan blade and her index, middle, and ring fingers were broken and lacerated.