Hord Personnel Services

An employee was standing behind a gate in a cattle barn. Some cattle entered the barn and hit the gate, pushing the employee into a horizontal pipe and severely injuring his back. He was hospitalized.

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.

The injured employee and a second employee were collecting genetic material from a bull inside the collection ring. The bull fell over onto the injured employee and they were hospitalized with a fractured left tibia.

An employee was cleaning a manure pit while in the elevated bucket of a bucket loader. While they were disconnecting a rope that holds the manure pump in place, the employee misstepped and fell 4 feet into the cement pit. The employee struck his head and sustained a forehead laceration and head trauma.

At 2:30 p.m. on October 13, 2021, an employee was on top of a pump truck, replacing the cone insert on the cyclone tank. He fell about 11 feet, striking a mounted toolbox before hitting the ground. He suffered a broken right leg below the knee, a compressed lower back vertebra, and a contusion to the right buttock. He was hospitalized.

An employee was attaching a powered industrial truck to a trailer in a parking lot. The employee slipped on ice and fell to the concrete, suffering a broken right arm.

An employee was doing maintenance work on a mechanical poultry harvester. The machine amputated the tip of his right middle finger.

An employee was working to deliver mail to an apartment building. She was waiting for a customer to move, to obtain clearance to the mailboxes. The door swung inward and closed on her right little finger. The top half of her finger was surgically amputated.

An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.

On October 30, 2025, an employee was working to adjust a stackable metal shipping container. As the container dropped into place, it caught the employee's hands in an area between the upper and lower cross-members. The employee suffered a laceration to the left ring finger that required stitches, bruising to the right ring finger, and fractures to the right middle finger that necessitated medical amputation of the fingertip.

An employee was moving a scissor lift through a doorway. The employee was pinned between the scissor lift and the doorframe, sustained a back injury, and was hospitalized.

An employee was setting up communication equipment for a meeting. They were walking and tripped over a speaker on the ground. The employee sustained a leg injury.