Quality Structures, Inc

An employee was working from a scaffold. As they leaned against the rail of the scaffold, it gave way, causing the employee to fall to the concrete floor below. The employee sustained a right thumb fracture and a chest contusion.

An employee suffered a heart attack after excavating concrete, requiring hospitalization.

An employee was placing blocking between the rafters when he stepped wrong and fell from an approximate height of 16 feet to the dirt below, breaking his femur, tibia, and two vertebrae.

An employee was using a crane. The hook slipped and a fitting fell onto a finger on the employee's left hand causing a fracture and laceration.

An employee was transporting an 800-pound die on a cart from the tool room. The employee was pulling the cart when it struck a metal plate on the floor. This caused the cart to tip forward and the die to slide off the cart. The die struck the employee's left foot and their second toe was amputated.

An employee was using a forklift to load pallets of product on a trailer. He exited the forklift to adjust a pallet by hand. The pallet fell on him, resulting in an injury to the left leg.

An employee was lifting a 500-pound steel counterweight off a pallet using a magnetic hold jib crane. The counterweight detached from the crane and the employee sustained a left foot/toe fracture that required surgery.

An employee was using a pipe wrench to turn a 42-foot-long steel pipe on jack stands to weld the bottom portion. The pipe fell off the stands, striking the injured employee on his left shin. The employee sustained a left leg fracture at the shin area as well as a tibia fracture that required surgery.

An employee was putting away a riding pallet jack when the handle dropped to the floor then bounced back and struck their abdomen, resulting in a ruptured intestine requiring surgery.

An employee was delivering a copy machine when he slipped on ice, causing his head to strike the delivery vehicle and then the ground. The employee was hospitalized with bleeding around the brain.

An employee was carrying tools and parts to his car after servicing a machine at a school. He fell, landing on both hands with his fingers bent back, and sustained a laceration that required hospitalization and surgery.

An employee tripped and fell, suffering a broken and dislocated ankle.

An employee and a co-worker were delivering a copier to a client. While using the stairs and a stair climber device for copiers, the machine fell and landed on the employee, who then fell down the stairwell. The employee suffered multilevel spinous process fractures from the T4-T10 levels that required hospitalization.

An employee was cleaning leaves with a backpack blower when he fell from a ladder, resulting in injuries to his head, neck, and back.

An employee was operating a battery-powered broom to clean demolition debris off the top of the outermost bridge girder. The girder was approximately 11 feet above the demolition scaffold below. The employee fell approximately 8 feet to wind bracing below. The employee was hospitalized with a pelvis/tailbone fracture. Fall protection was in place at the time.

An employee slipped while descending in a stairwell, fell, and suffered multiple contusions/bruises to the head, neck, shoulders, knees, and back. She was hospitalized.

An employee's right middle finger was caught in a nip point. The employee suffered an amputation to the middle finger at the first knuckle.

An employee was directing trucks as they entered and left a highway work zone. A vehicle struck them, resulting in multiple fractures and other injuries. The employee was hospitalized.