Common Injuries from Scissor Lift Accidents
- Amputation caused from depressed scissor lift: Often times a scissor lift can malfunction. If your hand is caught underneath the hydraulic mechanism serious injury can result. Generally because of the crushing force amputation can result.
- Traumatic hand injuries: A traumatic hand injury can be an amputation or other serious disfiguring injury to your hand. In such cases the injured parties hand can be mangled, damaged or crushed causing a traumatic hand injury.
- Death from falling or loss of blood: Scissor lifts are also likely to cause death if the operator falls from the top of the lift, or the lift tips over causing injury. Injury can also result from loss of blood resulting from amputations.
- Traumatic head injuries caused from use of scissor lifts: Where the scissor lift automatically moves without the operators consent or topples over from a defective design or rapid deceleration causing operator to fall off. In such cases the operator can suffer a traumatic head injury caused from the fall.
- Broken bones: Caused from falling or slipping from a scissor lift. This is another common injury caused from operating a scissor lift. Fractures bones can occur when a scissor lift topples over throwing the operator to the ground. In such cases the operator can be crushed by the force of the lift and suffer significant injuries.
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