YRC Freight

An employee was assisting another employee load a wooden crate onto a trailer. The crate fell off the forklift and struck the employee's foot.

An employee was closing a truck door after a delivery when his finger was wrapped around a rope hanging from the door. The employee sustained a fingertip amputation.

A YRC Freight employee had just unstrapped a 2,700-pound crate inside a trailer, about halfway down its length. A forklift picked it up to remove it from the trailer. The crate fell over and struck the employee, who suffered a broken right leg, left leg, and right wrist.

An employee fell off the rear of a freight truck during a delivery. In the 3-foot fall, the employee suffered a blow to the head and internal organ injuries.

An employee was struck by a customer's forklift while delivering freight, resulting in broken bones in both feet.

An employee was working at a drive-thru window when she suffered an asthma attack that required hospitalization.

An employee suffered a reaction to an unknown object or substance, resulting in a body rash, swelling of the throat, and vomiting that required hospitalization.

An employee was trying to identify the location of a blockage in a pneumatic line. Two pipes in the line came apart, expelling batch mix onto the employee. The employee suffered abrasions and burns to the head, neck, and back.

An employee's face was burned by asphalt mixture. The employee was hospitalized.

While cleaning the bars to the tack spray, some tack spray material landed on the employee's shirt and burned his chest.

A truck driver was preparing a hose to load a chemical tanker trailer with sulfuric acid when sulfuric acid splashed the left side of their face and neck, causing skin burns.

An employee was disconnecting steam lines from a bulk liquid trailer. He disconnected a steam line located on a vapor recovery line when hot steam blew back onto him, resulting in burns to the left side of his abdomen, as well as his left arm and leg. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was driving a truck when it lost power. He pulled over, opened the hood, checked the engine, and opened the radiator cap. Pressure in the radiator caused hot fluid to spew over the employee, who suffered second-degree burns to the left arm, hand, and leg.

An employee was pulling apart pallets that were stuck together when they felt pain in their stomach. The employee was hospitalized with a hernia.

An employee was getting out of a truck tractor when he fell to the ground. He suffered a broken left femur.

The injured employee was assisting five other employees with bracing a wall panel that was being stood up. Another employee slipped on frost on the floor surface. The employees went to evacuate the area in anticipation of the wall panel falling over. The injured employee went to jump through a window opening within the wall panel and their lower half was crushed by the falling wall panel. The employee sustained a fractured pelvis.

An employee was using a vertical band saw to cut a thick piece of rubber material. While being cut, the material shifted, causing the employee s right hand to contact the moving blade. The employee's thumb was amputated below the knuckle. The employee was hospitalized, undergoing surgery.

A production sanitation employee was pre-rinsing an incline conveyor and noticed cheese stuck between the belt idler. The employee went to remove the cheese and their glove got caught and pulled their left forearm into the conveyor. The employee's arm was fractured. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

An employee was on a ladder, taking measurements for a new gutter installation. The ladder slipped out from under him and both he and the ladder fell to the ground. He was hospitalized with seven broken ribs and a broken clavicle.

An employee was unloading a truck for a delivery job. While moving boxes in the truck, the employee tripped over a pallet and fell out of the truck to the ground, resulting in four broken ribs.