Rush Truck Center

An employee was hammering on an alignment tool for a truck tire when a piece of metal was dislodged and struck them in the eye. The employee was hospitalized with a piece of metal lodged in their eye.

An employee was removing a door from a tractor-trailer when the door fell onto his right knee, resulting in an injury that required surgery.

A service technician was standing on the frame rail of a truck and torqueing engine cylinder head-bolts using a torque wrench. He fell to the floor, suffering a broken hip and wrist.

An employee was grinding a part on a grinding wheel when his finger came into contact with the grinding wheel, resulting in a de-gloving of his finger and bone loss.

An employee was performing a compression test on a diesel engine. All of the injectors were removed since several of them were broken. A rag was held over an open cylinder to prevent debris and fuel from exiting. When the engine started, air pressure exited the cylinder and caused a puncture wound through the palm of the employee's left hand.

An employee was repairing a microwave at a customer's residence when he suffered an electrical shock, which caused burns to both his hands.

An employee was setting up music for a fitness class. As the employee plugged their personal device into the outlet, she was shocked. The employee experienced pain in her left side, mainly in her arm and head.

Two employees were testing the phase voltage of the 208 volt bus bar circuit. An arc flash occurred during the testing. One employee suffered burns to the face, neck, and hands. Another employee suffered burns to his arm.

An employee was in a manhole pulling a 120-volt spider to connect it. The spider snapped and struck his chest. He was shocked and hospitalized.

An employee was wrapping lights around a tree when their right arm contacted exposed wires, resulting in electric shock.

An employee was on a 20-foot ladder cleaning tile on the side of a building. The ladder slipped and he fell to the ground. He landed on his feet, resulting in hospitalization with fractures to both feet.

An employee was putting away stock in the aisles and began driving his order picker down the aisle with a pallet of items loaded on the forks. The pallet struck an upright of the warehouse racking and was pushed toward the employee, causing him to fall. The front edge of the pallet drove his right leg into the front panel of the order picker, fracturing his right leg above the ankle.

An employee was completing an inspection on a truck when the flywheel amputated their fingertip.

The injured employee was vacuuming out the trunk of a parked vehicle. Another employee was operating a vehicle when the brakes failed and the vehicle struck the back of the injured employee's legs pushing him into the vehicle he was vacuuming. The employee sustained a fractured leg.

An employee got out of his truck and closed the door when his right hand got caught in the door, resulting in a broken ring finger and an amputation of the middle fingertip that required hospitalization.

After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.

An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.

An employee was inspecting flares processes. The employee received burns to the front side of the body, face and arm from the flares.

An employee was removing plastic material from a production line when the machine cycled and amputated his left index, ring, and little fingers.

An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.