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With long hours of driving, loading and unloading cargo, irregular schedules, and the nature of a driver's lifestyle on the road, truck drivers are at a high risk for work-related injuries and illnesses. Below are real-life examples of typical injuries to truck drivers incurred on the job.
Spinal Injuries (neck and low back):
- Driver injured her lower back while pulling a handle on her truck.
- Driver injured his lower back while cranking down a landing gear.
- Driver injured his neck and shoulders while unloading a trailer.
- Driver hurt his lower back when he slipped on ice while making a delivery.
- Driver jack-knifed his tractor-trailer in snow, injuring his back.
- Driver hit a big bump causing his air ride seat to bottom-out resulting in a low back injury.
- Driver hurt his back when a hose blew loose in his truck and knocked him down.
- Driver injured her neck when she was assaulted by her co-driver.
- Driver injured his back when he fell trying to get into his truck.
- Driver slipped on ice at a truck stop, injuring her neck and back.
- Driver injured his neck and back while climbing out of his tractor.
- Driver injured his neck, back and left knee when a tree fell on his tractor-trailer.
- While sleeping in his cab, driver was struck by another tractor trailer injuring to his neck and spine.
- While closing the doors on her trailer, driver injured her left knee and low back.
Leg, Foot and Knee Injuries:
- Driver was making a delivery when his right knee buckled and he twisted his right ankle.
- Driver trainer's student popped the clutch while he was putting battery box on, smashing his right toe and tearing up his left knee as he tried to get out from under the truck.
- Driver's right foot was crushed between two large gas cylinders when one rolled off a fork lift.
- Driver sustained ankle injury at a truck stop after slipping in diesel fuel.
- Driver fractured his hip while walking out of a convenience store.
- Driver fell while trying to get back into her tractor, resulting in a fractured ankle.
- Driver broke his ankle when he slipped and fell while unloading his trailer.
Shoulder and Arm Injuries:
- Driver injured shoulder unloading freight from back of trailer.
- Driver hurt his knees and shoulder in a fall on a loading dock
- Driver injured right shoulder when he fell off trailer bed while tarping a load
- Driver injured his left shoulder when a box fell on him as he opened up the trailer
- Driver injured both of his shoulders while pulling on truck tandems.
- Driver tore his rotator cuff when the load shifted in his trailer causing the truck to flip.
- Driver hurt his left shoulder when he tried to stop a pallet jack from rolling down an incline.
- Driver broke his arm when someone jerked the tow motor causing pallets to fall on him.
- Driver injured his right wrist in a fall at a delivery site.
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