Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2018-06-06 | Flagstaff | Arizona | U.S. Forest Service-Coconino National Forest | Lower leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
The injured employee and a crew were prepping for a prescribed burn by cutting down dead and dying timber. The injured employee dropped a 25" diameter tree and the tree took an unusual spin on the ground and rolled over his lower leg. The employee sustained a puncture wound, a laceration and a fracture to his left tibia. | |||||
2017-06-09 | Flagstaff | Arizona | U.S. Forest Service-Coconino National Forest | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was on a 5-foot ladder, removing burnable material from the roof and gutters of a structure threatened by wildfire, when he fell from the ladder to the ground. He suffered an open tibia/fibula fracture to his left leg. | |||||
2016-08-09 | Flagstaff | Arizona | U.S. Forest Service-Coconino National Forest | Thoracic region | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
An employee was loading an ATV onto a trailer when one of the ATV's wheels came off the trailer and the ATV tipped over, fracturing the employee's vertebra. |