Student Transportation of America

An employee was checking the attendance of passengers when a car backed over her foot and ankle, resulting in a broken ankle.

While walking across a snow-covered parking lot, an employee slipped on a patch of ice and impacted the frozen ground, suffering a subcutaneous bleed and head trauma.

An employee was changing mud cups in the hopper cylinders of a concrete pump truck. The cylinders moved and three of the employees fingers were amputated.

An employee was standing on the rig floor next to a polishing unit. His hand was placed on the polishing unit when the pump was lowered, resulting in amputation of their right thumb, ring, and middle fingertips.

An employee was using air to blow out the air wash to the blender and grinder station. As the employee reached to verify that the air wash was clean, the unit pinched and amputated their fingertip.

An employee was retrieving a lost drill pipe with a lifting bail when their left thumb got pinched between the table and handle of the lifting bail while trying to re-thread the pipe to lift it out. The employee suffered an amputation to the left thumb.

An employee was removing a core chuck from a stationary roll when their right ring finger was pinched between the chuck and the roll. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

An employee finished her afternoon shift and was walking to her car on the gravel/dirt/grass walking surface. As she approached the exit gate, she tripped/stumbled and fell onto a nearby fence and the ground. The employee sustained fractures to collarbones or rotator cuffs on each side of her shoulder(s).

An employee was standing in a doorway when she lost her footing, slipped, and fell to the floor, resulting in a broken elbow.

An employee was walking in the bus yard when he slipped on ice and fell to the ground, fracturing his arm.

A maintenance employee was working on a bus at the maintenance shop when he tripped and fell on a wheel chock. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip and required surgery.

An employee was performing a pre-trip inspection of a bus. He was walking down the bus steps using the handrail when he slipped and fell, resulting in back injuries, internal bleeding, and a severe hematoma.

An employee slipped while climbing a ladder on a skidder, fell to the ground, and suffered a tibia/fibula fracture. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was lowering the bucket of a track loader that contained a grade stake and the grade stake punctured his foot, resulting in hospitalization and surgery.

An employee was using a pike to move a pallet of sugar that was stuck in the powder racking. The employee fell backward, landing on his right leg. The employee's leg was fractured and he was hospitalized.

An employee was working to fix the forks on a forklift when the fork(s) fell on her toes. The second and third toes on her right foot were fractured, lacerated, and required stitches.

An employee was delivering a 65-foot boom lift to a rental customer's construction site. The employee set up the ramp truck in the parking lot adjacent to the construction site. He elevated the boom 4-5 feet to clear a temporary fence. While driving the boom lift off the ramp, the wheels slid to the driver's side of the ramp truck, ultimately sliding off the ramp. The boom lift fell off the side of the truck and rolled onto its side. The employee sustained a fractured clavicle, a dislocated shoulder, separated/fractured ribs, a punctured lung, and a fractured left femur. The employee required surgery.