United Healthcare Clinical Services

An employee working from home fell and broke her leg while getting up out of a chair. She was hospitalized and required surgery.

Employees were removing fasteners from an aluminum side sheet of a railcar coal gondola. The side of the rail car collapsed onto the employees' lower extremities, resulting in fractured legs and pelvis and a head injury. Two employees were hospitalized.

An employee was walking by a masonry block wall at the side of a garage. A gust of wind caused part of the wall to collapse onto three employees, one of whom suffered a broken right ankle and a head injury that required staples. That employee was hospitalized.

An employee was tasked with cutting a bale that had a combination of plastic and cardboard. He was using a pair of shears to cut the wire banding when the bale collapsed onto his left leg, breaking his femur. He was hospitalized.

An employee was cleaning her workstation and organizing her files when a section of the acoustical ceiling (tiles and grid), adjacent light fixtures, and portions of the plaster ceiling above suddenly collapsed due to a prolonged, concealed steam leak that weakened the fastener connections. She sustained a cut to her head, bruise to her head, scratches on her neck, a scratch to her left hand, and irritation to her right hand, requiring hospitalization.

An employee was working in a trench box at an excavation site. When he exited the trench box, he sunk into mud up to his knee, suffering possible muscle trauma requiring hospitalization.

An employee was working from a step ladder while cleaning lights when they fell, resulting in a broken wrist and an injured knee and ankle. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was at a customer's home conducting a claim inspection for water damage. She was transferring from the roof to a ladder when she slipped and fell about 10 feet to the ground. The employee sustained fractures to her pelvis and tailbone, and torn muscles in her hip and leg. She was hospitalized and required surgery.

An employee was using a step ladder placed on a countertop. The employee lost their balance and fell approximately six feet to the floor below, resulting in a fractured right femur that required surgery and hospitalization.

An employee was walking in the parking lot when they tripped over a concrete parking stopper and fell. The employee sustained a hip injury.

An employee was walking down a hallway when they slipped on water and fell to the concrete floor, resulting in a broken right leg.

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.