Accident: 170871396 - Fall - Slipped Trying To Free Ski Lift Chair

A maintenance crew for a ski resort was removing a ski lift chair from an exhibition ski lift for an annual inspection. One of the employees was working from a scaffold, tied in with a harness. To remove the chair from the lift cable, he was to loosen the cable clamp, attach the chair to a hoist, and lower it to the ground. The employee operating the ski lift stopped the cable about 50 to 100 millimeters too far, which ran the cable clamp under a sheave, binding it. Seeing the problem, the employee on the scaffold apparently disconnected his harness and climbed up the tower ladder and out onto the sheave assembly so that he could pry up the sheave wheel with a crescent wrench. As he was prying with the wrench, he slipped and fell 4.6 meters to the ground. He sustained a compound fracture of his arm and was hospitalized.

fall, fall protection, slip, work surface, amusement ride, fracture, arm

Accident: 119948016 - Injured In Fall While Framing House

At approximately 7:00 a.m. on December 1, 2000, Employee #1 was framing a residence when he fell 9 ft 6 in., sustaining a fractured right arm and lacerated liver. Employee #1 was transported by paramedics to JFK Memorial Hospital, where he was hospitalized for five days.

laceration, carpenter, fracture, arm, liver, fall, construction

Accident: 126092550 - Leg Fractured By Garbage Truck Mechanism

At approximately 12:36 p.m. on September 18, 2000, Employee #1 climbed a waste collection truck to retrieve some waste paper from the space between the driver's cab and the vehicle's waste storage unit. He inadvertently touched the armlift activator and he became pinned. The Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics freed him and he was airlifted to UCLA Medical Center. Employee #1's right leg was fractured, his right arm seriously injured, and his lower back bruised.

garbage truck, pinned, fracture, leg, arm, lockout, work rules, caught between

Accident: 14228621 - Arm Amputated In Fiber Rewind Roller y

Employee #1 was reattaching a loose piece of fiber that had come off a moving rewind roll when his glove became caught in the machine. His arm was pulled into the roll and amputated.

amputated, arm, caught by, work rules, roller--mach/part, nip point, glove, clothing

Accident: 119948511 - Mechanic Injured When Split Rim Assembly Explodes

At approximately 9:45 a.m. on July 25, 2000, Employee #1, a heavy equipment mechanic, was working in the maintenance yard of the Bloomington Lumber Company. A split rim wheel assembly exploded during tire inflation and he sustained a fractured right arm and wrist. Employee #1 was transported to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, where he was hospitalized for 36 hours.

mechanic, flying object, fracture, arm, inflating, restraining device, explosion, work rules, struck by, multipiece rim wheel

Accident: 120280474 - Injured In Fall From Scaffold

On June 12, 2000, Employee #1 was installing drywall on the interior of the third floor of a commercial building. He had placed a Perry scaffold at the open side of the building within 2 ft of the perimeter. The scaffold did not have the guardrails attached. Employee #1 was working overhead and screwing the drywall in place when he stepped backward off the unguarded end of the scaffold and fell approximately 6 ft onto a concrete floor. He fractured his right arm in two places and fractured his right ankle. Employee #1, an experienced drywall installer, misjudged the hazard of working on scaffolding without guardrails. If guardrails had been in place, he would not have fallen.

construction, scaffold, fall, guardrail, walking backward, fracture, arm, elevated work plat, work rules, fall protection

Accident: 119947364 - Burned When Splashed By Hot Chemical Mixture

At approximately 2:00 p.m. on May 15, 2000, Employee #1, an adhesive compound mixer for W. F. Taylor, Inc., was working at an adhesive manufacturing facility. He was splashed with a hot chemical mixture he was preparing and sustained second-degree burns to his right arm and hand. Employee #1 was transported to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, where he was hospitalized for eight days.

burn, arm, chemical, ppe, high temperature, struck by, hand, protective clothing, work rules

Accident: 201062973 - Entangled In Net With Dolphin

Seventeen employees were performing a dolphin capture exercise in a dolphin stadium at a marine amusement park. They were working in the holding pool in the stadium. This was the fourth time this particular operation had been done at the pool, each time with a different pair of dolphins. The two dolphins to be captured were being guided by a nylon net toward a shallow area of the pool (called a "slide out") for holding and transport. One of the employees (employee #1) was free diving in the pool on the opposite side of the net from the dolphins. One of the dolphins had already been captured, but the second young dolphin was not familiar with the net and was swimming in the deeper part of the pool as the net was being brought around. Other employees both in and out of the water were responsible for pulling the net toward the slide out and keeping the net taut so that the dolphin could not escape. The dolphin swam into the net toward employee #1 near the northeast corner of the pool, about a meter from the slide out, in about 3.7 meters of water. Employee #1 grabbed the dolphin through the net to subdue the animal and bring it to the surface. The dolphin was calm for a moment and then began to spin, entangling both the dolphin and the employee in the net and pulling them deeper. The employee sustained three fractures and torn ligaments in her right arm, which was entangled in the net. Other employees brought her to the surface while she was still conscious. The injured employee was hospitalized.

net, animal handler, entangled, fracture, arm, amuse park/carnival

Accident: 120126487 - Arm Crushed In Closing Cargo Door

At approximately 2:30 p.m. on February 28, 2000, Employee #1, a supervisor and foreman employed by Ecology Recycling, was attempting to shove an assembly of light steel shelving onto the bed of a 27 ft long box trailer bed. The vertically operated overhead cargo door suddenly fell into the closed position, catching his arm against the floor of the trailer. He sustained a crushed and fractured right arm and elbow and was transported in his own vehicle to San Antonio Community Hospital. Employee #1 was hospitalized for one and a half days.

work rules, fracture, arm, elbow, trailer, loading, caught between, door, falling object, unsecured