The Elite Fleet

An employee was stepping on an aluminum cross member to exit a boat in a building when his foot slipped off, causing his shin to strike the cross member bracket. The employee sustained a shin laceration and fracture.

An employee was dismounting an excavator after loading it onto a lowboy trailer. The employee slipped, but managed to catch the grab handle to avoid falling. The sudden stop ruptured a cyst in the employee's abdomen.

An employee was conducting wildlife surveys from a UTV. After attempting to dig out the UTV, she was climbing back into the vehicle and had her hand on the roll bar when her foot slipped off the step-up plate, causing a sudden sharp pain to her abdomen area. She was in severe pain and required hospitalization for a muscle injury.

An employee was climbing on a skid steer when his right foot slipped and was pinched in the vehicle. The foot was broken, requiring surgery.

An employee was adjusting the high/low switch on his truck-mounted welder. He was turning around when he lost his footing because it had just rained and his truck bed was slick. He went to steady himself and reached to grab onto something with his hands. His right hand slid underneath the cowling of his welder and two fingers were severely lacerated by the motor fan blades. He was hospitalized.

A driver was loading a trailer. The driver fell out the back of the trailer and fractured his left elbow on the ground. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was picking bulk bags for shipments. While cleaning pellets off the ground, a stacked bulk bag (full of plastic pellets) collapsed and fell on the employee. The employee sustained fractures to their ribs, pelvis, and left femur.

An employee was delivering goods to a customer. He was folding the truck's lift gate when his left middle finger was pinched in the lift gate, resulting in an amputation.

An employee was operating an electric pallet jack, delivering pallets of groceries to a store. The employee was walking backward when her foot was pinned between the pallet jack and a video pole, resulting in lacerations and fractures to her ankle and heel. She was hospitalized.

An employee was tightening a turnbuckle while attempting to conduct lash-back operations on a ship when their left gloved hand was caught between the upper and lower turnbuckles. The employee suffered a crush injury to the little finger that resulted in a fingertip amputation.

After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.

An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.

An employee was inspecting flares processes. The employee received burns to the front side of the body, face and arm from the flares.

An employee was removing plastic material from a production line when the machine cycled and amputated his left index, ring, and little fingers.

An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.