Farmers Insurance

On 3/11/2016, at 09:30, an employee was performing a property claim adjustment on a one-story residential home roof. As the employee was exiting the roof, she fell from a ladder to the deck below. She was hospitalized with three broken ribs on the right side.

An employee fell either from the roof or ladder of a mobile home unit. He does not remember. The employee was inspecting the roof for hail and wind damage.

An employee was preparing a tank car for loading while chipping away solidified product in the manway opening of the tank car. A pressure noise within the tank car startled the employee, causing him to stumble backward and fall approximately 10 feet over the guard railing at the chemical loading rack to the ground. The employee suffered fractured vertebrae, a fractured right wrist and ankle, and a dislocated jaw.

An employee was installing an electrical tray remover from a ladder. As he was descending, his missed a step and fell 6-7 feet to the floor. The employee suffered a head injury.

Two employees were installing spray foam insulation in the attic of a new residential construction. The injured employee fell 8 feet from an A-frame ladder to the floor. The employee suffered lacerations, abrasions, and a head injury.

An employee was on a raised platform attaching wires to electrical boxes. The employee fell approximately 8 feet to the floor below and struck an exit sign on the way down, resulting in an injury to his face.

An employee was in a forklift man basket fixing a garage door opener when they fell approximately 8 feet to the concrete ground below. The employee suffered head and back injuries as well as kidney bruising.

An employee was conducting a roof inspection for an insurance claim. He set up a ladder up on a deck and was climbing from the ladder to the roof when the ladder slipped causing the employee to fall to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured wrist and ankle and required surgery.

An employee was using a 16-foot ladder to descend from a second-story roof to a porch roof after completing an inspection. As the employee stepped back onto the ladder, they fell, landing on the porch roof. The employee then rolled off the porch roof and landed on their feet on the ground. They were hospitalized.

An employee was climbing from a ladder onto a residential roof to inspect it when he slipped off the roof and fell to the ground below. The employee's spine was broken.

An employee fell from a two-story roof to the ground while conducting an insurance inspection, suffering injuries to the head, neck, back, and left leg and a brain bleed.

An employee had just inspected hail damage on a one-story roof and was coming down a ladder to inspect a gutter. The employee fell from the ladder and broke both legs.

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.