H.O. Bouchard

On November 18, 2022, an employee was checking rodent stations at a customer's home. Upon standing from a bent position, the employee experienced pain in the abdomen. He was hospitalized and had surgery for a hernia.

Two employees were trying to put an HVAC unit into place for installation. They were using a manual pallet jack to elevate the unit enough to remove four-wheeled dollies from under the unit's legs. They removed the dollies on one side of the unit, but when one of them began to remove a dolly on the other side, the unit began to tip over. The employee suffered a left knee injury while quickly getting away from the falling HVAC unit.

A paramedic was crossing a ditch to reach an injured person. His right knee was hyperextended and he suffered a partial tear of the right quadriceps tendon. He was hospitalized.

An employee suffered a muscle strain to the lower/mid-back while performing copy and print services in a store.

An employee took a step and broke their right ankle.

An employee was backing up a sit-down forklift when his left hand struck against a rack. His middle and ring fingers were broken and he was hospitalized.

An employee was struck by a truck and sustained a broken right leg.

An employee slipped on a patch of ice and fell, striking his head on the pavement. The employee sustained a subdural hemorrhage with a loss of consciousness and was hospitalized.

An employee parked a commercial motor vehicle at a truck stop. The employee slipped while exiting the vehicle and fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left distal humerus.

On September 19, 2024, an employee was manually wrapping a pallet with shrink wrap when they slipped on a small piece of wood and fell. The employee landed on the concrete floor and suffered a fractured right hip.

A crew was installing drilled micropiles alongside an outdoor covered deck foundation. The injured employee was working the front of the drill when a loose section of casing dropped onto the tip of a rig wrench and pulled the wrench down to an embedded casing. The employee's left little finger was caught between the rig wrench and the embedded casing and was amputated above the top knuckle.

Two employees were working to change a tire on a mobile slasher saw. The slasher weighs around 2,000 pounds and is towed. Employee 2 was lifting the saw while the injured employee was placing a block of wood under the frame for support. The slasher then lowered onto the block and the injured employee's left thumb was crushed between the slasher frame and the wood block, leading to an amputation at the first knuckle.

An employee was using a metal shear when it amputated the tip of his right index finger.

An employee was using a crane to move a 44-foot, 3,343-pound I-beam. As the beam was moving west, it straightened out (north to south), beginning to swing south toward the northwest corner of a building. The crane then sent the beam southward, directly toward the corner of the building. The beam caught the tips of the employee's left index, middle, and ring fingers against the building. The last joints of the middle and ring fingers were amputated, and the last joint of the index finger was partially crushed.

An employee was standing on a step stool, removing the nuts and bolts from the frame of a solar panel that was being replaced. The employee's cheek made contact with a connector with damaged insulation. The employee was shocked, briefly lost consciousness, and fell to the ground, suffering an injury to the left shoulder.