Christmas Tree Shops

An employee was unpacking boxes at a receiving table. The employee tripped on a cable that had dropped off the table and fell, suffering a broken hip. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was walking through a vestibule when he tripped over a stack of hand baskets on the floor. He fell to the tile floor, breaking his hip.

An employee was moving a piece of an I-beam for welding when it rolled off the cribbing. The employee went to catch it when it fell and crushed the employee's finger, resulting in a partial amputation.

An employee was helping to disassemble large reels used to store steel wire when a 264-pound flange from the reel fell over onto the employee's left leg. The employee sustained multiple fractures to their leg and ligament injuries to the lower leg.

The injured employee was putting away materials on the warehouse floor as a co-worker was pushing a pallet onto a nearby shelf. The pallet knocked another pallet forward, causing it to fall onto the injured employee's shoulders. The employee suffered fractures in their right and left knees and ankles.

Employees were moving a single man lift into a building and reclining the lift to position it to fit through the door. The lift shifted and fell, causing the employee to sustain fractures to the left tibia and fibula. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery.

An employee was moving a light tower so it could be hitched to a truck. He grabbed the tongue of the trailer hitch on the light tower to slide it to the left. The tongue jack fell off, causing the light tower tongue to drop on the employee's right hand. The employee's middle fingertip was amputated.

An employee was collecting shopping carts in the parking lot when he was struck by a customer's truck as it was backing out of a parking spot. The truck pinned the employee's left leg against the cart mule they were using. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured leg and required surgery.

An employee was on a ladder, gathering materials from a shelf. She slipped and fell from the ladder to the concrete ground, suffering a broken heel and foot.

An employee was stacking a pallet when the pallet fell, injuring her left leg. She was hospitalized and had surgery on her left leg.

An employee slipped on water in a hallway and fell to the floor, landing on his left side and head. He sustained a back strain/sprain and was hospitalized.

An employee had been having lunch in her car in the parking lot. When she exited her car, her left knee gave out and she fell on the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left femur and required surgery.

A crew was installing drilled micropiles alongside an outdoor covered deck foundation. The injured employee was working the front of the drill when a loose section of casing dropped onto the tip of a rig wrench and pulled the wrench down to an embedded casing. The employee's left little finger was caught between the rig wrench and the embedded casing and was amputated above the top knuckle.

Two employees were working to change a tire on a mobile slasher saw. The slasher weighs around 2,000 pounds and is towed. Employee 2 was lifting the saw while the injured employee was placing a block of wood under the frame for support. The slasher then lowered onto the block and the injured employee's left thumb was crushed between the slasher frame and the wood block, leading to an amputation at the first knuckle.

An employee was using a metal shear when it amputated the tip of his right index finger.

An employee was using a crane to move a 44-foot, 3,343-pound I-beam. As the beam was moving west, it straightened out (north to south), beginning to swing south toward the northwest corner of a building. The crane then sent the beam southward, directly toward the corner of the building. The beam caught the tips of the employee's left index, middle, and ring fingers against the building. The last joints of the middle and ring fingers were amputated, and the last joint of the index finger was partially crushed.

An employee was standing on a step stool, removing the nuts and bolts from the frame of a solar panel that was being replaced. The employee's cheek made contact with a connector with damaged insulation. The employee was shocked, briefly lost consciousness, and fell to the ground, suffering an injury to the left shoulder.