Saint-Gobain Adfors

An employee was walking down the hallway when they tripped and fell to the floor, fracturing their right wrist.

An employee was walking down the hall to retrieve a vacuum when they stumbled and fell to the floor. The employee suffered wrist bruises and a kneecap fracture that required surgery.

An employee was carrying furniture backward during a delivery when he tripped and broke his right ankle.

An employee was installing a compressor piston. He tripped and fell backward while the piston was in his lap. As he landed, the little finger of his left hand became caught between the piston and compressor piping resulting in a partial amputation of the fingertip. The employee required stitches and the fingertip was reattached.

An employee was doing an oil change. He was walking to get his oil jug when he tripped on an open lift pad, and fell to the ground landing on his right side. The employee sustained a broken right femur and was hospitalized.

An employee was using a hand tool to cut a mooring line at a marina to demonstrate equipment to customers. The hand tool broke and struck the employee in their left eye, lacerating the cornea.

An employee had just gone through a roll-up door and closed it. The rope used to pull the door down caught her foot and she fell, breaking her left kneecap.

An employee was retrieving a bottle from inside a permeability plugging tester machine when the machine began moving. The employee sustained a left ring fingertip amputation.

An employee was changing the bottom die on a hydraulic power crimper. Their left thumb was crushed between the two die components when the crimper engaged, resulting in thumb fractures.

A chemist was finishing a reaction. He added paraformaldehyde to a Grignard solution in a 5-liter glass jacketed reactor. The reaction mixture over-pressurized and the reactor shattered, spreading shards of glass throughout the room. The chemist sustained lacerations to the chest and thigh.

An employee was cleaning leaves with a backpack blower when he fell from a ladder, resulting in injuries to his head, neck, and back.

An employee was operating a battery-powered broom to clean demolition debris off the top of the outermost bridge girder. The girder was approximately 11 feet above the demolition scaffold below. The employee fell approximately 8 feet to wind bracing below. The employee was hospitalized with a pelvis/tailbone fracture. Fall protection was in place at the time.

An employee slipped while descending in a stairwell, fell, and suffered multiple contusions/bruises to the head, neck, shoulders, knees, and back. She was hospitalized.

An employee's right middle finger was caught in a nip point. The employee suffered an amputation to the middle finger at the first knuckle.

An employee was directing trucks as they entered and left a highway work zone. A vehicle struck them, resulting in multiple fractures and other injuries. The employee was hospitalized.