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| State workers hurt on the job every year |
| By statesmanjournal.com - Dennis Thompson Jr. |
| Published: 05/14/2012 |
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Oregon -- Sgt. Brian Simpson slipped and fell while trying to stop a prison inmate’s assault on a fellow corrections officer last year, fracturing a bone in his knee when he landed hard. A patient attacked Oregon State Hospital therapist Brant Johnson, raking him with a sharp thumbnail and leaving a deep scratch down his face and chest that became badly infected. A jack slipped and a trailer fell on Department of Transportation responder Leland Erickson in 2003, breaking his sternum as he helped change a tire along a busy highway. It’s easy for the public to think of state workers as pencil-pushing bureaucrats, but thousands are injured every year while performing high-risk jobs full of physical labor or potential confrontation. “I play in traffic every day, literally,” said Erickson, who drives around helping clear wrecks, breakdowns and other highway hazards. “Unfortunately, there’s a high degree of danger in this job. In the last year, my truck has been hit three times. How do you miss a state-of-the-art emergency vehicle that’s painted white, with lights on it and a giant light board?” Read More. |
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