Grenzebach Corporation

An employee was climbing a step ladder while carrying a 3-foot piece of conduit. As he went to reposition his feet on the ladder by pivoting, he slipped and fell from the third rung of a 6-foot ladder. The employee sustained fractures to the left femur, right elbow, and right ring finger.

An employee was descending a 4-step maintenance stand when she missed the bottom step and fell to the hangar floor. The employee suffered a left hip fracture.

An employee stopped a belt and was going to check it for missing packages. She fell backward 3-4 feet from an elevated platform and sustained a broken right arm.

An employee had just finished a routine concrete pour and was ascending the ladder to clean the concrete mixer truck. The employee lost their grip and fell approximately 2-3 feet, contacting the truck's bumper. The employee suffered rib fractures and a punctured lung.

An employee was performing duties as an expeditor. After opening the dock door, the employee scanned the barcode on the door of the truck and placed one foot on the truck and one foot on the dock. The truck drove out of the stall, causing the employee to fall 4 feet off the dock onto the concrete. The employee sustained fractures to the right side of the pelvis, elbow, and a left ring fingertip as well as injuries to the right wrist and bruising to the back and stomach.

A steel tube fell from a straddle truck onto an employee's foot, causing the steel toe of the employee's shoe to press into the employee's left foot. The employee sustained fractured phalanges and was hospitalized.

An employee was unloading materials from the back of a flatbed trailer. The employee fell off the back of the trailer approximately 4 feet to the ground below, resulting in a fractured left collarbone and fractured ribs. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was bending material in a mechanical brake press when the press rotated and caught his right hand. His finger was crushed between the die and a steel plate, resulting in amputation of the finger.

An employee was cleaning pans containing adhesive by pouring acetone into the pans. After soaking, the employee used a plastic spatula to scrape the paint from the pan. During scraping, a fire spontaneously started underneath the employee near the pan. The employee threw the container of acetone out of the way to avoid it catching on fire, and spilled acetone onto his clothing, causing the fire to spread. The employee suffered burns to both hands and the right calf.

The injured employee was assisting a co-worker to transfer a V-baffle (large piece of angle iron weighing 736 lbs.) into a vessel shell. The injured employee stepped off the end of the vessel and fell backward. The employee sustained a dislocated left shoulder, a fractured left wrist, a fractured lower right leg, and a laceration to the left eyebrow.

An employee was helping to lift the grating from a floor draining system when the grating slipped and landed on his hand, resulting in the amputation of his right middle finger at the first joint.

A casting machine jammed. An employee's hand was caught in the machine, where a belt line caught and amputated the tip of his finger.

During a workshop meeting in a hotel, an employee heard a drilling noise, so he walked outside to see what it was. An explosion occurred (possible gas line) and his face, ear, and hair were burned. He also fell and sustained a pelvic fracture.

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

An employee was using a tool to remove a rag from a roll on the tube mill. The roll pulled the tool and the employee's right hand into the roll, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger and a fracture to the index finger.