BELFOR Property Restoration

An employee was cutting plywood with a circular saw when his left little finger was cut, resulting in a laceration. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

An employee was conducting demolition and restoration work due to a hurricane when he began feeling ill. The employee was hospitalized due to heat stress.

An employee was shifting paint containers around on a 5- or 6-foot-high scaffold when she lost her balance and fell off of the scaffold to the ground. She suffered a broken leg and was hospitalized.

A stack of drywall fell on top of an employee's left leg that ruptured an artery in the knee.

An employee was moving a mainframe containing multiple drivers off a pallet. When the employee moved the mainframe off the pallet, it tilted. The employee tried to stop the mainframe from falling but it fell and hit the employee's right leg, breaking it. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was power washing a metal tank from an elevated platform. They fell through a gap between the platform and the tank. The employee landed on the ground and sustained fractures to their ankles and feet.

An employee was installing a metal roof when he stepped on a skylight. The employee fell through the skylight to the ground, resulting in head and shoulder fractures.

An employee was replacing an HVAC unit in a residential home. While he was in the attic space above the garage, the wood he was walking on broke, causing the employee to fall through the sheetrock to the concrete floor below. The employee bumped his head and sustained a shoulder injury as well as a broken ankle.

An employee was putting a tarp on a water tank while standing on a trailer. She lost her footing and fell through the trailer bed, striking the corner of the trailer bed. The employee sustained internal bleeding.

An employee was walking away after replacing an air conditioning filter when he fell through the dry well in the garage. The employee sustained a laceration above the right eye that required stitches as well as orbital and rib fractures.

An employee was on an extension ladder descending from a roof when the ladder collapsed and lowered. The employee fell approximately 20 feet to the ground, resulting in fractures to their ribs and left wrist.

The injured employee was acting as a spotter for another employee that was using a forklift to move crane plates. The injured employee went to walk on top of staged bracing poles that had been stacked. The top layer of bracing shifted when stepped on, causing the employee to lose balance and fall. During the fall, one of the bracing poles dislodged and landed on the employee s left leg, causing a compound fracture.

An employee was working to remove an existing window from a customer's home. The employee was descending an extension ladder when they fell backward onto a concrete patio. The employee sustained head trauma and fractures to their shoulder, ribs, and a vertebra.

An employee was painting the exterior of a house when they fell approximately 12 feet from a ladder. They landed on the ground and sustained a fractured right ankle.

An employee climbed a ladder onto a roof, then stepped from new roof sheathing onto a tarped section of old roof, and fell to the ground. The employee suffered fractures to their pelvis, vertebrae, and the left wrist. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was delivering materials. He was doing his pre-delivery inspection on the roof of the jobsite (a warehouse) when he fell through a plexiglass skylight. He landed on his feet on the concrete floor 14 feet below. The employee sustained fractures to his spine, left ulnar/radius, and right heel. The employee required surgery.

An employee was cutting cabinet trim using a table saw when four fingers on his left hand were severed, resulting in hospitalization and amputation.

An employee was removing packaging from a roll of printing substrate. The blade of their utility knife got stuck. The employee used both hands to free the knife and the blade partially amputated their left little fingertip.

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 standing on an extension ladder, using a torquing tool to remove bolts that secured blades to a rotor. When the torquing tool activated, its reaction arm came around and pinched the employee's right middle finger against a lifting eye. His fingertip was amputated.