Indian Valley Bulk Carriers

An employee was climbing onto a dump truck trailer using the ladder when they fell to the ground, sustaining wrist and leg fractures.

The injured employee and his coworkers were riding the bus to the jobsite. There was a dirt bump in the road and the driver lost control of the bus. The employee sustained a possible head injury and injuries to his right hip and right hand.

A paramedic was riding in the back of an ambulance when it ran over a pothole or bump in the road, jarring his back. He suffered lower back pain and was hospitalized.

An employee was driving a front-load/bucket tractor on an unpaved roadway. While surveying conditions, the employee stopped the tractor and positioned the front load bucket to approximately 18 inches above the ground to take pictures/video of a water-filled ravine that crossed the main roadway. The employee was then driving forward when the front wheels rolled down a slight sloped wash. The bucket embedded in the dirt, causing the tractor to stop. The employee's abdomen was injured from the abrupt stop and the pressure from the seatbelt he was wearing.

An employee, working as a coner, which is the person who sits on the platform crate/grate behind the road line marking paint truck and picks up and places traffic cones, was picking up cones from the right side of the crate/grate when the truck hit a bump causing it to bounce up and down which caused the employee's right leg to get stuck between the ground and the vehicle breaking the tibia/fibula.

On 6/25/15, at 10:30 a.m., an employee was riding her personal Segway on a street at the Navy base. While between buildings, she hit a dip or pothole in the roadway and lost control of her vehicle. She crashed her vehicle and was hospitalized overnight for a hip area fracture.

An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.

A driver was exiting his vehicle outside the plant gate when his foot slipped on the top step of the truck. He fell to the ground, landed on his left hip and elbow. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip/femur.

An employee was on the ground working to close a trailer door. The door was caught by the wind and blew the employee backward. He landed on his back and sustained four fractured ribs, requiring hospitalization.

An employee had been loading packages into a vehicle. While exiting the vehicle, he tripped and fell, fracturing both ankles.

An employee was working from the elevated bucket of an excavator when they fell between two tanks and landed on the ground. The employee sustained a fractured leg.

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.