Dan Williams Company

A field mechanic was disconnecting a hose between a tanker truck and a reclaimer. Hot asphalt oil sprayed onto him from the hose, burning him.

The injured employee was standing in a hole with a pipe in it during road construction. The employee was unloading bags of concrete from an excavator bucket in preparation for pouring the concrete around the pipe in the hole. The excavator bucket was lowered onto the employee's left foot. The employee was hospitalized for a crushing injury to the left foot that required surgery.

An employee reached into a truck with his foot to press the clutch down and start the truck. When he took his foot off the clutch, the vehicle started to move in reverse and he fell to the ground. The truck then ran over the employee, causing a pelvic fracture.

An employee was working on a bridge site when he tripped on angle iron and fell onto rebar. He suffered an injury to the parotid gland on the right side of his face.

An employee became stuck in the hot tar and was struck by paving machinery while working on the highway.

An employee was standing on the step at the back of a garbage truck when he fell to the ground and sustained a facial fracture and a concussion.

On March 27, 2023, an employee fell from the back of a traffic truck while it was performing a U-turn. The employee landed on the ground and sustained injury to the neck and back.

An employee was riding on a trash truck. When he jumped off the truck, he struck his head on the pavement and suffered a head injury.

An employee fell out of a moving postal vehicle as it pulled onto a roadway. The employee suffered broken facial bones and a broken hip.

An employee entered a delivery truck to check the product in it. The truck drove off with the employee in it. When it slowed down, the employee jumped out of the semi-truck and fell onto the road, suffering a broken skull. He was hospitalized.

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 was cleaning out an inlet pipe in a stormwater structure. The employee stepped back, fell into the pipe, and landed on concrete 13 feet below, at the bottom of the structure. He suffered a broken back.

A concrete batch plant operator was assisting with clearing spoil piles using a skid steer. The skid steer backed into a stationary screen plant. The employee's left little finger was crushed between the controls of the skid steer and the screen plant, resulting in a fracture and laceration. The employee's finger was surgically amputated.

An employee was operating a roller and paving a small pathway next to a pavilion. The ground was on a slight pitch, causing him to reach up toward the roll cage to stabilize himself. His right fifth finger was pinched between the roll cage and the rafter of the pavilion. The employee sustained a partial degloving injury with partial traumatic amputation.

An employee was working with paving equipment and heard a noise on the opposite side of the machine he was working on. When the machine stopped, the employee went to the opposite side and crouched down to investigate the noise. A mini track loader backed up and drove over the employee's leg. The employee sustained fractures to their lower leg, ankle, and foot.

After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.

An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.

An employee was inspecting flares processes. The employee received burns to the front side of the body, face and arm from the flares.

An employee was removing plastic material from a production line when the machine cycled and amputated his left index, ring, and little fingers.

An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.