Federal Express

Two employees were positioning trucks. The injured employee was entering the warehouse and was struck by a moving vehicle resulting in a broken left collar bone, an elbow injury, a head abrasion and a right thumb injury.

An employee was lowering a trailer door when his foot slipped off the trailer bumper, causing him to fall forward. The trailer door came down on his left arm and broke it.

An employee was stepping out of a car when they slipped and fell on ice, resulting in a femur fracture.

An employee was closing up for the weekend when they slipped on oil and brake fluid and fell. The employee suffered a leg fracture.

An employee was working in the forest flagging an area to be harvested. He took a step and his foot slipped on a stick hidden under the leaves, causing him to fall to the ground. He landed on his right foot/lower leg resulting in a fractured tibia.

An employee was inspecting an apartment to ensure it was ready for a new resident to move in. The carpet in the apartment had been recently cleaned and was still wet. As the employee went from the carpet to the tiled floor of the bathroom, they slipped and fell, resulting in a torn left hamstring.

An employee was delivering a letter along a rural carrier route when she stepped on an ice-covered snow drift, slipped, and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a right hip fracture that required surgery.

An employee was performing preventative maintenance on a conveyor belt when his left hand became caught in the belt. The employee sustained severe lacerations to his index finger and thumb, as well as a partial amputation to the middle finger.

An employee slipped and fell on black ice while walking to the rear of the trailer. The employee suffered a back and head injury and was hospitalized.

An employee was standing in the receiving dock area when a forklift backed up over their foot. The employee sustained a fractured ankle, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

An employee was using a tugboat to winch the barge. While the employee was winching the barge, the winch handle spun backward and struck the employee's right wrist, resulting in a compound fracture of the wrist.

Two employees were inspecting separate sides of a void tank in a ship. When one of them stood up from a squat, his glasses slid down his face and his eye and right brow struck a protruding piece of a metal bracket. He suffered a cut to the brow and an eye injury from the bracket piece.

An employee fell while moving a water canister, resulting in fractures to four fingers on her right hand.

An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.

An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.

A temporary employee was carrying a nail gun through the warehouse when it hit his leg, activated, and fired a nail into the leg.