AMERICAN RED CROSS

An employee was walking to her car when she tripped and fell in the parking lot. The employee sustained a hip injury that required hospitalization.

An employee was pulling a cart with 140-pound equipment down a wet ramp when she slipped and fell. The cart then struck her ankle and dislocated it.

On November 27, 2018, an employee drank contaminated water out of a previously unopened bottle and was hospitalized.

An employee suffered from carbon monoxide exposure while inside a blood donation bus, requiring hospitalization.

An employee was attempting to access the roof using a 14-foot fixed ladder. When he attempted to open the roof hatch, the weight of the snow on the hatch would not allow the hatch to open. The unexpected force caused the employee to fall off the ladder. He suffered three broken ribs and a ruptured spleen that required surgery and hospitalization.

On 11/8/2023, at about 1:00 AM, an employee was engaged in an altercation with shoplifters. In the parking lot, the employee was struck by a vehicle driven by the shoplifters. The employee sustained injuries to both legs.

Two employees were engaged in a fight while the injured employee was working from a ladder. The co-worker pulled the ladder from underneath the injured employee, causing them to fall to the ground. The injured employee sustained a foot fracture and back injury.

A customer was driving their car out of the parking lot without paying their bill. The car struck an employee, who ended up on the hood of the vehicle. As the car turned onto the street, the employee was thrown off the hood and sustained a head injury requiring hospitalization.

An employee was working when a customer picked up a jump box and fled the store without paying. The employee was then struck by the customer's vehicle, resulting in ankle fractures.

An employee was walking through a hallway with two restrained residents when they were tripped by one of the residents, causing them to fall to the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a knee injury.

Two employee were carrying a cloth backdrop when the injured employee lost her footing and fell to the floor, resulting in a broken hip.

An employee was attempting to access the roof using a 14-foot fixed ladder. When he attempted to open the roof hatch, the weight of the snow on the hatch would not allow the hatch to open. The unexpected force caused the employee to fall off the ladder. He suffered three broken ribs and a ruptured spleen that required surgery and hospitalization.

An employee was in a parking lot when a flatbed trailer struck her, knocked her down, and rolled over her legs, fracturing her right knee and left leg in three places.

While an employee was lowering a dock plate, the front flap pinched the employee's right middle finger, amputating the nail and the pad under the nail.

An employee was removing items from a cupboard. When she turned around, she tripped and fell over a child who was crawling on the floor, resulting in a broken hip.

An employee was checking on a machine outside of the building and removed a cover to clean out a blocked area. His hand was caught by a rotary valve in a dust collection machine. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

An employee was working to clean a glue roller with a scraper tool. The tool and the employee's left thumb were pinched between two rollers, resulting in a partial amputation.

An employee was re-arranging boxes of pipe insulation on a pallet. One of the boxes fell from the pallet and knocked over an upright empty cylinder. The cylinder fell and crushed the tip of the employee's right toe. The employee's toe required surgical amputation.

An employee was securing the claw of a grapple truck to the truck bed. His left little finger was caught between the tie down strap and the rub rail of the truck, resulting in partial amputation of the finger.

An employee was cutting extruded aluminum framing material using a horizontal band saw. She went to grab a rag in the machine when the rag contacted the blade and pulled her hand in toward the blade, resulting in a partial amputation of the right index finger.