CompuNet Clinical Laboratories

An employee was cutting tissue for examination. During this process, the employee sprayed a freezing agent on the tissue while it was in the cryostat and a flash fire occurred. The employee was hospitalized with burns to the face and neck.

An employee was kneeling on his left knee with his right knee up while taking measurements of a car he was working on. As he switched knees, and put his right knee on the ground with his left knee up, his right hip dislocated and he bent forward onto his hands. The employee was hospitalized and required hip surgery.

An employee was working on flooring tile, which required several continuous hours of kneeling. The next morning, he noticed fluid and swelling on the right knee. When he knelt to perform work tasks, he felt an immediate sharp, burning pain. The employee was hospitalized with an infection.

An employee knelt to look at a machine. They stood up and felt a pop in their right knee. Later in the day, the employee experienced swelling in their knee, resulting in hospitalization for a ruptured bursa.

An employee was crawling in a small attic space when they felt a pop in their back resulting in a lower back injury.

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee ate an uncooked, company-provided chicken meal during lunch, developed a food-borne illness, and was hospitalized.

On April 3, 2025, an employee was pushing a heavy cart when the cart passed over a hole in the concrete floor and tipped over. The employee sustained hip fractures from the cart.

An employee was approaching a client's lockbox to pick up specimens. He tripped over the curb and fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a broken left hip that required surgery.

An employee was processing donor tissue and contacted the bandsaw blade, resulting in lacerations to their right middle and index fingers.

An employee was working to deliver mail to an apartment building. She was waiting for a customer to move, to obtain clearance to the mailboxes. The door swung inward and closed on her right little finger. The top half of her finger was surgically amputated.

An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.

On October 30, 2025, an employee was working to adjust a stackable metal shipping container. As the container dropped into place, it caught the employee's hands in an area between the upper and lower cross-members. The employee suffered a laceration to the left ring finger that required stitches, bruising to the right ring finger, and fractures to the right middle finger that necessitated medical amputation of the fingertip.

An employee was moving a scissor lift through a doorway. The employee was pinned between the scissor lift and the doorframe, sustained a back injury, and was hospitalized.

An employee was setting up communication equipment for a meeting. They were walking and tripped over a speaker on the ground. The employee sustained a leg injury.