Timken, NTC

A crew was pulling a 4-inch plastic gas pipe off a reel and straightening it for installation. The injured employee stepped up on the trailer to cut the last band holding the pipe in the coil on the reel. As he turned to step off the trailer, the end of the pipe rotated and sprung out of the cage surrounding the coil, striking the employee on the side of the head and knocking him off of the trailer into the roadway. The employee suffered head trauma that required hospitalization.

An employee and a co-worker were performing a pick inside a clear well. They rigged the skid pan that was full of broken concrete. When lifting, the load began to swing toward a wall. The employee tried to stop the skid pan from swinging and was struck by the pan, resulting in fractures to their left hip and wrist.

The employee had just completed refueling a lattice crane that was breaking up material and was winding the fuel hose back into the fuel truck when he was struck by the catwalk/stairs of the crane. The employee was hospitalized with a laceration to his backside, possible internal bleeding, and a broken hip.

An employee was fusing 10-inch black rubber utility pipes together using a pipe fusion machine and could not get the pipes to set correctly. The employee used a nylon strap attached to an excavator to lift one side of a pipe off a steel plate. As his hand was between two pipes, the pipes came back together, partially amputating two of his fingers.

An employee was lifting four bags of a lime blend weighing approximately 10,000 pounds using a crane. The load swung and pinned the employee against a structural I-beam, resulting in fractures to the hip and pelvis.

An employee was cutting wire when his gloved left hand got pulled into the counter on the wire machine resulting in amputation of his left little finger and a laceration to his right ring finger.

An employee reached under a raised truck to pull on the spare tire when the jack slipped, causing their hand to be caught between the fallen truck and the spare tire. The employee was hospitalized with a severe injury to the right hand.

An employee was replacing a hydraulic cylinder on a mini-excavator. The employee was positioning the machine while it was in a trailer when their right leg became pinned between a track and the trailer, resulting in severe lacerations to the lower leg.

An employee was using an 8-foot folding ladder to retrieve a 250-foot coil of wrapped wire on a shelf. The employee dropped the wire which struck the ladder, causing the employee to fall from the ladder to the concrete floor. The employee sustained a skull fracture, a right knee fracture, and a rib fracture.

Four employees were moving a wooden spool of fiber-optic cable fiber when the injured employee slipped and fell, twisting his ankle. The employee suffered three fractures to his ankle.

An employee was checking on a machine outside of the building and removed a cover to clean out a blocked area. His hand was caught by a rotary valve in a dust collection machine. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

An employee was working to clean a glue roller with a scraper tool. The tool and the employee's left thumb were pinched between two rollers, resulting in a partial amputation.

An employee was re-arranging boxes of pipe insulation on a pallet. One of the boxes fell from the pallet and knocked over an upright empty cylinder. The cylinder fell and crushed the tip of the employee's right toe. The employee's toe required surgical amputation.

An employee was securing the claw of a grapple truck to the truck bed. His left little finger was caught between the tie down strap and the rub rail of the truck, resulting in partial amputation of the finger.

An employee was cutting extruded aluminum framing material using a horizontal band saw. She went to grab a rag in the machine when the rag contacted the blade and pulled her hand in toward the blade, resulting in a partial amputation of the right index finger.