Struck by rolling powered vehicle or machinery · Fractures
Final narrative
An employee exited the ambulance van she had been driving and went to lower the hydraulic wheelchair ramp/lift on the side of the vehicle. The lift would not lower into position. She went around to enter the van to continue troubleshooting the lift when the van began to roll backward as the employee was partially out of the driver s side door. She reached in to stop the vehicle but the transmission shifted into reverse. The van turned and backed across a residential street, dragging the employee approximately 15 feet until it went up on a curb and the employee s left leg was pulled under the left front tire. She was hospitalized with fractures to her right wrist, right hand, and left fibula.
Hospitalized Upper and lower extremities n.e.c. Ambulance
An employee was operating a forklift. He parked on a ramp and got off the forklift to retrieve material, at which point the forklift rolled backward and ran over his leg. The leg was broken and he was hospitalized, requiring surgery.
An employee was walking backward with a pallet jack loaded with cases of toys. When the employee went to stop the pallet jack, it rolled over his right foot. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured distal tibia and a torn tendon in his foot that required surgery.
An employee had driven a forklift into a trailer. He exited the forklift to address the freight in the trailer and begin to place strapping. The forklift struck him and he sustained a torn Achilles tendon.
Two employees were using a forklift to remove a differential from the back of a tractor. One employee was operating the forklift with a chain attached to the differential, while the injured employee was kneeling over the right wheel axle to view the chain and the differential. The chain came loose and fell off, causing the forklift forks to jerk upward and strike the injured employee in the head. The employee then fell backward and struck his head on the wall, suffering multiple injuries, including damage to his eye, loss of sight, and a skull fracture, The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was retrieving a water bottle from the operator compartment of a unit load device transporter. The transporter accelerated and ran over her foot, causing lacerations to the skin surrounding her toes that required hospitalization and surgery.