OSHA Injury Report: Tri-CAP - Elk River

At a glance

Where did this happen?

What was the outcome?

Before the incident

Loading wheelchair user

What happened

The bus was stopped and dropping 2- passengers one passenger was a wheelchair passenger that needed to be unloaded. I was training a new driver and this was the new driver 1st day driving bus. When we got to the stop the driver put bus in neutral instead of park when he went to deploy lift it didn 't work so he got back in the bus and went to put into park but his foot slipped and hit the gas pedal because which jolted the bus forward. I didn 't know he went around to do this and I was unhooking the wheelchair passenger lap belt and when the bus jolted my hand slammed into the wheelchair and pulled my pinky on my left hand back.

Injury or illness

Hyperextended pinky injury to hand.

Object or substance involved

Wheelchair ramp

Summary line

Injury to hand - hand hit wheelchair pinky finger hyper extended

Employee and industry

When (timing detail)

Source

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2025. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.