HD Retail Repair

An employee was power washing a metal tank from an elevated platform. They fell through a gap between the platform and the tank. The employee landed on the ground and sustained fractures to their ankles and feet.

An employee was installing a metal roof when he stepped on a skylight. The employee fell through the skylight to the ground, resulting in head and shoulder fractures.

An employee was replacing an HVAC unit in a residential home. While he was in the attic space above the garage, the wood he was walking on broke, causing the employee to fall through the sheetrock to the concrete floor below. The employee bumped his head and sustained a shoulder injury as well as a broken ankle.

An employee was putting a tarp on a water tank while standing on a trailer. She lost her footing and fell through the trailer bed, striking the corner of the trailer bed. The employee sustained internal bleeding.

An employee was repairing a sub-floor in a residential house that had water and fire damage. The employee fell through the sub-floor and landed in the basement, resulting in spinal fractures that required hospitalization.

An employee was using a 10-foot step ladder to install roller shades. The employee fell from the third rung from the top, landing on the ground and suffering back and head injuries. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was climbing a ladder to access a home attic. The employee fell from the ladder to the ground, suffering a broken right elbow.

An employee was cutting a cast iron pipe when the pipe fell onto his right hand, resulting in amputation of the thumb. The employee was hospitalized.

While on a scaffold, an employee was transporting heated sealant material in a bucket. The employee tripped and fell, causing the heated material to splash onto his gloved hands. The employee sustained second-degree burns to both hands and his right wrist.

Three employees were pulling tension cable (similar to rebar) through the walls of a condo using a motor system. Two employees were needed to hold the cable while the third employee drilled the mounting locations. When the third employee activated the drill, the cables twisted. They caught the right index finger of one of the other two employees, amputating his fingertip.

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.