Orkin Pest Control

An employee was conducting pest control services at a private residence. The employee slipped and fell, hitting his head and sustaining a brain bleed and blood clot.

An employee slipped and fell on ice while walking into the building, fracturing the right ankle.

An employee was inspecting the perimeter of a condominium when a large dog jumped onto the worker from the balcony. The employee's arm was fractured in multiple places.

An employee fell off an A-frame ladder and broke his wrist.

An employee was taking a cow from one pen to another when their finger was crushed between the gate and the cow, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee had been roping a calf. The employee became tangled in a rope and was dragged by a horse. The employee sustained broken ribs and a punctured lung.

An employee was moving cattle. The employee was pinned between a steer and a gate, suffering a crushed hip.

An employee was leading cows toward the milk parlor when a cow backed up, crushing the employee's right index finger against a metal bar of the staging area. The finger was partially amputated.

Employees were loading steers on a truck. One of the steers became angry, turned back, came off the ramp, headed towards the pen, and struck the pen's gate. One of the employees was standing at the gate, and the impact threw the employee backward. His head struck concrete and he suffered a fractured skull and eye socket.

The injured employee was trimming a bush with a hedge trimmer. He reached over with his left hand to remove a branch. The blades of the trimmer partially amputated his left index finger.

An employee was performing pest control services at a residential home when he tripped and fell on the front porch steps. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured wrist, two fractured ribs, and a subdural hematoma.

An employee was on a 32-foot fiberglass ladder positioned on a porch roof, using a caulk gun to seal the fascia board around the gable of a house. He was about 16 feet up the ladder, which was not fully extended. The base of the ladder slid away from the house. The employee fell onto the porch roof, then to the ground below, a distance of about 10 feet. He suffered broken ribs, lacerations and facial abrasions, and a potential facial fracture.

An employee was going door-to-door selling pest control services during 80+ degree weather. The employee sustained heat stroke and collapsed.

An employee was performing service on a customer's attic. They stepped off a walk board to retrieve a tool and misstepped onto the rafters, causing them to fall approximately 10 to 12 feet. The employee sustained a back injury.

An employee was readjusting a safety hook to remove hardware from gang forms when his feet slipped. He fell to the ground, resulting in a broken left arm and wrist.

An employee was on a step ladder in a store aisle, making room on shelving for merchandise. She fell from the step ladder to the floor, suffering two fractures in her left leg. She was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

An employee was closing the side cargo door to a company van. The tip of his finger got caught between the door and the door jamb, resulting in a partial amputation.

An employee lost his footing while climbing an inclined ladder. He stumbled down one step and was able to stabilize himself by holding the railing and twisting his body, but he suffered an internal abdominal injury and was hospitalized.

An employee was manipulating dies on a brake press. The press caught and crushed the employee's right forearm, resulting in hospitalization.