Combined Transport, Inc.

On January 28, 2024, a truck driver slipped while securing a truck. He fell about 5 feet to the ground and broke his knee. He was hospitalized.

An employee was unstrapping a load from his truck. The strap wrapped around his leg, causing him to fall from the trailer and suffer a broken right ankle.

An employee was loading a trailer when he became dizzy and sat down. The employee lost consciousness and was hospitalized for heat stress.

An employee was pushing a patient in a wheelchair up a ramp when she felt a sudden pain in her middle and lower back, resulting in hospitalization.

An employee sustained a hernia while manually pulling on a dock plate that was stuck against a trailer. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was pushing tables together to seat a party of 20 when he felt a sharp pain and experienced difficulty breathing. The employee was hospitalized for a collapsed lung.

An employee was walking and pushing a basket with cardboard on it when she felt her left knee crack. The employee's left femur was broken.

On August 27, 2023, an employee was rolling a 55-gallon drum of diesel fuel off a pallet and injured his back. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee fell while exiting a trailer. The employee landed on their left side on the pavement, suffering multiple broken ribs on the left side. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was hooking up a set of 28-foot trailers, attaching a converter dolly to the lead trailer's pintle hook. He backed up the lead trailer and parked it a foot from the converter dolly, then lifted the converter dolly and rolled it to the lead trailer to set it onto the hook. The converter dolly kicked up, and the employee's left hand was caught between it and the trailer. He suffered a severe laceration to the palm between the ring finger and middle finger.

An employee was cleaning the windshield of his truck. When he stepped down from the truck, he lost balance and reached to catch himself using the side mirror. The impact fractured his left wrist. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

An employee was standing on the DOT bumper on the back of a standard 53-foot trailer. The employee lost his footing and his grip on the handle bar, and fell approximately 42 inches to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left hip/femur.

A driver was making a delivery. As he was climbing onto his trailer to get boxes, the strap he was using to pull himself up broke. He fell from the back of the trailer to the ground, landing on his right leg and breaking his femur.

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.