State Farm

An employee was on a knee cart. Its handle grip came loose as she turned and she fell to the tiled floor, breaking her lower right tibia and fibula.

An employee was assessing a customer's roof when the employee's ladder slid away, causing the employee to fall approximately 4 feet. The employee suffered four broken ribs and a scalp laceration.

On November 11, 2015 at approximately 12:15 pm smoke from an electrical fire in the building activated the fire alarm. An announcement was made over the PA system that it was a false alarm, so employee(s) remained at their work stations. Moments later the employee(s) were told to exit the building. The fire department was called and arrived on scene (for approximately 30 minutes). The employee coughed for the remainder of the day and the rest of the night. Due to difficulty breathing and excessive coughing the employee sought care at the emergency room. She was admitted.

An employee was power washing a metal tank from an elevated platform. They fell through a gap between the platform and the tank. The employee landed on the ground and sustained fractures to their ankles and feet.

An employee was installing a metal roof when he stepped on a skylight. The employee fell through the skylight to the ground, resulting in head and shoulder fractures.

An employee was replacing an HVAC unit in a residential home. While he was in the attic space above the garage, the wood he was walking on broke, causing the employee to fall through the sheetrock to the concrete floor below. The employee bumped his head and sustained a shoulder injury as well as a broken ankle.

An employee was putting a tarp on a water tank while standing on a trailer. She lost her footing and fell through the trailer bed, striking the corner of the trailer bed. The employee sustained internal bleeding.

An employee was repairing a sub-floor in a residential house that had water and fire damage. The employee fell through the sub-floor and landed in the basement, resulting in spinal fractures that required hospitalization.

An employee was leaving a work event facility when he fell down a step to the ground, resulting in hospitalization due to torn quadricep tendons in both his knees.

An employee was on an extension ladder at a site to inspect roof damage. The ladder slipped out from under him and the employee fell to the ground and landed on the ladder. The employee was hospitalized for fractured shoulders.

An employee was leaving a client's property to walk to their car when they fell on the driveway, resulting in fractures to their skull and right femoral bone.

An employee was walking to the entrance of the building when she tripped and fell on the floor and stairwell of the first floor entry, resulting in a fractured hip.

An employee was walking in a conference room when the heel of their shoe caught on the carpet flooring, causing them to fall. The employee's head struck a conference table and they suffered central cord syndrome/protrusion of cervical intervertebral disc. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was helping to lift the grating from a floor draining system when the grating slipped and landed on his hand, resulting in the amputation of his right middle finger at the first joint.

A casting machine jammed. An employee's hand was caught in the machine, where a belt line caught and amputated the tip of his finger.

During a workshop meeting in a hotel, an employee heard a drilling noise, so he walked outside to see what it was. An explosion occurred (possible gas line) and his face, ear, and hair were burned. He also fell and sustained a pelvic fracture.

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

An employee was using a tool to remove a rag from a roll on the tube mill. The roll pulled the tool and the employee's right hand into the roll, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger and a fracture to the index finger.