Pioneer Pole Buildings, Inc.

An employee was unloading a roller from a rollback truck. Another employee unhooked the roller from the winch and the roller slid off the rollback, causing the injured employee to be ejected approximately 1 foot out of the roller onto the ground. The injured employee was on the roller when this happened. The employee suffered a broken right hip. and was hospitalized.

An employee worked on site from around 7:00 AM until 2:00 PM and then drove back to the shop. About an hour after his shift ended, he felt ill, lost consciousness, and had a seizure. The employee was hospitalized with heat-related illness.

An employee was moving trim from a crate on a flatbed truck, about to put it on top of a steel pack on the forks of a truck-mounted forklift. He fell from the bed of the truck to the ground, suffering eight broken ribs, two broken vertebrae, and a broken collarbone. He was hospitalized.

An employee was in the operator's basket of a telehandler, driving it off the back of a lowboy trailer. The telehandler slipped off the side of the trailer. The employee was ejected and fell to the ground, suffering several broken lower-back vertebrae and a broken right shoulder. He was hospitalized.

An employee was installing metal roofing for a new pole building. As he was coming down the roof for a break, he fell through a seam in the roof approximately 12 ft. to the ground below. The employee suffered a head injury, a broken left wrist, stitches above the left eye and right elbow and a bruised tailbone.

An employee was installing wood trim surrounding a skylight inside a home. While holding a piece of trim in it's desired location, his pneumatic nail gun discharged, sending a 3/4-inch pin nail into his left forearm.

An employee removed a safety valve on a trailer that unknowingly contained nitrogen gas. The gas released from the trailer and pushed the employee backward off a scaffold approximately 10 feet before they struck a garage door, resulting in a pelvic injury.

An employee was sitting at her workstation when a nail gun malfunctioned and shot a nail into her left leg. She suffered a puncture and blood vessel injury and was hospitalized.

On November 25, 2023, an employee was using a high-pressured water hose to perform sewer line cleaning operations. The employee's right little finger and palm were lacerated by pressurized water from the hose.

An employee was hydroblasting when they slipped and the pressurized water stream lacerated their left ankle.

An employee was cutting cabinet trim using a table saw when four fingers on his left hand were severed, resulting in hospitalization and amputation.

The injured employee was standing behind a table. She jumped out to scare another employee, but tripped and fell on the tile floor, injuring her right ankle/foot. She was hospitalized with a dislocated ankle that required surgery.

An employee was installing insulation in a wall when she tripped on a hole (12" deep) and fell, hitting her head on the concrete floor. The employee sustained fractures to her leg and wrist, and lacerations to her head. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was loading a 4-inch wooden door into a pickup truck when he felt a pop in his right side behind his shoulder blade. He was hospitalized later that day and underwent surgery, having suffered a collapsed right lung.

An employee was operating a power drill when it slipped. The drill bit punctured the employee's hand and they were hospitalized.

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.

An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.

An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.

An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.