Peterson Regional Medical Center

An employee was cleaning a drill set. Water containing an alkaline instrument detergent splashed into the employee's eyes, injuring them. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was operating an asphalt grinding machine when a branch got in the way of the machine. He crawled on top of the machine to cut the branch but it snapped back and knocked him off the equipment. He fell approximately 10-12 feet to the ground below, resulting in fractures to both wrists and forearms, and a left knee fracture.

A temporary employee was on a ladder while cutting conduit on a new building using a reciprocating saw. They sustained an electrical shock from a live electrical cable. The employee fell backward approximately 6 feet to the ground, resulting in hospitalization with a fractured heel that required surgery.

An employee was working on the ninth position of a 12-foot ladder, installing a new light fixture in an existing building. The employee sustained an electrical shock, lost his balance on the ladder, and fell. He sustained a fracture of the lower back and bruises on his hand and foot. The fracture required surgery.

At approximately 10:00 AM, employees were conducting asphalt loading operations. While securing a hose atop a truck, an employee encountered a malfunction involving a plugged hose. Pressure built up within the hose and suddenly released, causing the hose to fly off the truck. The hose contacted two employees and both employees fell approximately 7 feet. Employee 1 was on top of the truck and sustained three fractured ribs and a head contusion. Employee 1 was hospitalized. Employee 2 was climbing a ladder on the truck and sustained a fractured right leg. Employee 2 was not hospitalized.

An employee was working from a ladder, installing light fixtures. The employee was shocked and fell from the ladder to the floor about 6 feet below, striking their head and back. The employee was hospitalized with a laceration to the head and broken vertebrae.

An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.

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 slipped on water in a hospital hallway, fell, and landed on his left hip. He suffered a contusion and fracture to the hip.

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

A security employee was responding to an urgent call from staff regarding a violent patient. The employee tripped and fell on the floor outside of the stairwell. The employee sustained a closed head injury, contusion of the cerebrum without loss of consciousness, and a closed fracture of the distal end of the right radius.

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.