Penske Truck Leasing

An employee was performing maintenance on the refrigeration unit of a truck. As they were walking up a platform ladder, the ladder fell backward and the employee reached up with his right hand to hold onto something. The employee contacted the refrigeration motor belt, which pulled his index and middle fingers into a pulley, resulting in amputations to the first knuckle.

An employee was unhooking an air hose from an oil pump in a shop. As he disconnected the quick coupler, the compressed air caused an abrasion to his right ring finger.

An employee was performing a maintenance check when the reefer engine turned back on as the employee was checking the belt tension. The employee suffered open fractures to their hand and one finger.

An employee tripped and fell in a concrete parking lot for rental vehicles, resulting in a broken femur.

An employee fell from a lift gate to the ground, resulting in a broken hip.

On October 25, 2023, an employee suffered an insect bite/sting, which caused a swollen arm that required hospitalization.

An employee was walking around a truck at a weigh station when they suffered a spider bite on their left leg. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was in a client's yard when they were bitten by a bug. The employee was hospitalized for treatment.

An employee was walking through the chicken barn checking the chickens. They were bitten by a spider on the left shoulder and experienced a reaction to the spider bite.

An employee was on break when they lifted a vine and sustained a snake bite on their left ring finger.

An employee was working on disassembling and moving a trailer house from a gas well pad. The employee was on the roof of the structure installing flashing. The employee fell to the ground below, sustaining a skull fracture and brain bleed. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was working on a truck when the truck's door fell on his hand, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger.

The injured employee had been working on the computer at the front desk in the showroom. An argument occurred with another employee and additional people got involved. Gunshots were fired. The employee was shot in the hip and was hospitalized.

An employee was working on the lift gate of a truck when their left ring fingertip got caught in a pinch point, resulting in amputation.

An employee was preparing to remove leaf spring bushings on the front drive axle of a tandem axle tractor. After raising the axle with a hydraulic jack, he placed two jack stands under the rear frame rails of the tractor and placed additional jack stands under the front drive axle. He then repositioned himself at the rear of the tractor where he reached for the release valve of the jack to begin lowering the axle (and frame) onto the jack stands. He was in a kneeling position while using his right hand to operate the release valve. His left hand was caught between the lowering frame rail and a jack stand. His left ring and middle fingertips were crushed, resulting in amputations.

An employee was helping to lift the grating from a floor draining system when the grating slipped and landed on his hand, resulting in the amputation of his right middle finger at the first joint.

A casting machine jammed. An employee's hand was caught in the machine, where a belt line caught and amputated the tip of his finger.

During a workshop meeting in a hotel, an employee heard a drilling noise, so he walked outside to see what it was. An explosion occurred (possible gas line) and his face, ear, and hair were burned. He also fell and sustained a pelvic fracture.

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

An employee was using a tool to remove a rag from a roll on the tube mill. The roll pulled the tool and the employee's right hand into the roll, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger and a fracture to the index finger.