According to a story in the Green Bay Press Gazette, an employee of Cruiser Yachts was working on a ladder and fell from approximately a 12-foot height, seriously injuring her skull and back in a work accident. The fall occurred on Wednesday, January 11, before 8 a.m., when the ladder that the employee, Diane Lasley, was climbing was bumped by a piece of moving equipment.

Initially placed in the intensive care unit in critical condition, Lasley is recovering from her injuries, which included a skull fracture, significant loss of blood from the head wound, a crushed vertebra, and a broken vertebra. The paramedics who first responded to the scene from the Oconto Fire & Rescue Department transported her to a local medical center, where a medical team stopped the bleeding from her head wound, then proceeded to transport her to St. Vincent Hospital in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Surgeons used a metal substitute surrounded by metal plates to replace the crushed vertebra, and two days after the work accident, they were able to declare she does not appear to have any signs of paralysis. Lasley’s husband, Roy, reported that the patient both has feeling in her feet and can put pressure against the doctor’s hand with her foot.

Cruiser Yachts originally began as a family-owned boat-building company in Oconto, Wisconsin in 1904. The company’s spokesperson declined to give his name or comment on the accident. It was not reported by the Green Bay Press Gazette whether Lasley planned to take any legal action against the company for her accident at work.

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