Express Employment Professionals

A forklift backed into, and partially onto, a temporary employee's legs. It struck and injured her right calf and her left leg near the ankle sustained a severe gash. She was hospitalized with fractures and a partial degloving of the right leg.

A temporary employee was putting a choker tube on a piler. A C-door was lowered onto their right foot. The employee's foot was crushed.

A temporary employee was setting up a deck panel form. The temporary employee was working with two other employees to make the rebar cage fit in order to close the mold for production. A chain was used to pull or keep the cage in place. A short metal form wall fell and pinned the temporary employee's leg/ankle against the form base. He sustained a broken right fibula.

An employee was moving inventory when he was pinned between his forklift and a rack. He suffered a broken rib and a punctured lung.

An employee was inspecting pieces as they came out of a machine. He went to pull apart the pieces. The punch came down and injured his fingers, resulting in amputations to his pinky finger as well as his middle and ring fingertips.

An employee was walking in an aisle when a forklift backed up over her foot, resulting in a skin injury that required surgery to repair.

An employee was looking into the bucket of a front-end loader to see how much material was in it. A skid steer backed into the employee, who then fell into the edge of the front loader's bucket and suffered internal bleeding in the abdominal area.

An employee was spotting for a forklift operation. The forklift backed over the employee, who suffered a complete amputation to one lower leg and a partial amputation to the other leg. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was cleaning his work area and preparing it to begin making air-set molds when a nearby forklift that was backing out from a load swung around and struck the employee. They sustained a lower left leg fracture.

An employee was walking around a work area when he was struck by a forklift that was backing up, resulting in several broken bones in his foot.

A temporary employee fell from an A-frame ladder to the floor about 5 to 6 feet below. He suffered fractures to his left hip and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

A temporary employee was operating an electric pallet jack at a loading dock. While maneuvering the pallet jack into a trailer, the equipment loaded onto the pallet jack began shifting to the left. The employee's left foot was caught between a yellow guardrail and the side platform of the pallet jack, and his left ankle was crushed and fractured.

A temporary employee was cleaning a room and compressing the contents of a garbage bin using her right foot. As she pulled her leg out of the bin, she lost balance and fell to the ground, landing on her left hip. The employee sustained a fracture to her left hip and was hospitalized.

An employee was driving an electric pallet jack when it struck a rack. The employee was hospitalized with a crushed and lacerated right ankle.

A temporary employee was filling a sweeper with gas at a construction site. He was shocked by the jumper cables, which caused him to move his right hand into the sweeper's rotating fan blades. His middle fingertip was amputated.

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.

An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.

An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.

An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.