Cape Coral Florida – Machine Injury & Accidents

Machinery accidents happen all the time, and unfortunately, they can be both serious and costly. In this article, we’ll take a look at Cape Coral Florida machinery accidents and how you can protect yourself from them.

Cape Coral is a city located in Lee County, Florida, United States. The population was 189,055 as of the 2010 census. Cape Coral is the unofficial “capital of the SunCoast”. It is also known as “The Resort Capital of the World” because of its many resort hotels and golf courses.

According to the City of Cape Coral website, between 2016 and 2021 there were 20 reported accidents in Cape Coral causing property damage totaling $3,556,644. That’s an average of four accidents per year causing an estimated $177,000 in property damage each time.

Manufacturing in Cape Coral

Manufacturing companies located in Cape Coral Florida include Machinery Corporation of America, John Deere, and Eaton. These companies provide a wide range of products and services to the agricultural industry.

Turbine Generator Maintenance, Inc.
Dekoron Unitherm LLC
Cape Lumber Company
Source of Supply In Polyurethanes, Inc.
Direct Impressions, Inc.
Architectural Metal Flashings LLC
Cabinets Plus Inc

Action Manufacturing and Supply, Inc.
Southern Aluminum Inc
Agi-Vr/Wesson Inc.
Primary Metals International LLC
Energy Harness Corporation
Bravo, Inc.
Keltour US Inc.

What Machinery Accidents Have Occurred in Cape Coral Florida?

The types of machinery accidents that occur in Cape Coral are varied but typically involve equipment or vehicles. If you have been injured in a machinery accident in Cape Coral, Florida, don’t hesitate to speak with our team of experienced personal injury attorneys. We will work diligently to get you the compensation you deserve for your injuries, and we can also help make sure that any remaining financial burdens are lifted from your shoulders. Contact us today to set up a free consultation so that we can discuss your case in detail.

Here are some reported accidents in Cape Coral:

AccidentDate	Employer	City	State	Description	Injury	Body Part	Event	Injury Source	Other Injury Source
10/11/2021	Facility Gateway Corporation	Cape Coral	Fl	An employee was connecting batteries to an uninterruptible power supply system. A few batteries shorted out, causing second-degree burns to his hands. He was hospitalized, requiring skin grafts.	Second degree electrical burns	Hand(s)	Direct exposure to electricity	Batteries other than automotive
25/10/2021	All Terrain Tractor Service, Inc.	Cape Canaveral	Fl	Employees were swapping out a fork attachment for a bucket attachment on a loader. The locking pin got stuck. An employee used a piece of rebar to remove debris from the pin receiver; the pin dislodged quickly and his left ring and little fingers were caught between the pin and the receiver. He suffered amputations to both fingers.	Amputations	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Contact with objects and equipment	Vehicle and mobile equipment parts
21/09/2021	AJ BUILDING CONTRACTORS, LLC	Cape Coral	Fl	Two employees were working on the roof of a two-story residential home. They were aligning sun trusses. They had a ladder on each end and were on the ladders holding the bottoms of the trusses, about 3-4 feet high. The trusses began to shift and several fell, creating a domino effect. The employees were knocked to the ground, together suffering a dislocated/fractured elbow, a forehead laceration, and a dislocated/fractured toe. They were hospitalized.	Fractures and dislocations	Elbow(s)	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet	Movable ladders	Roof trusses, joists
23/08/2021	Capital Paving and Construction	Cape Fair	Mo	A flagger was struck by motorists, suffering fractures to an ankle, a lower leg, and a neck vertebra, as well as head and arm lacerations.	Fractures	Multiple body parts	Pedestrian struck by vehicle in work zone	Highway vehicle, motorized
09/07/2021	U.S. Postal Service	Cape Coral	Fl	An employee was delivering mail and felt dizzy from inhaling the exhaust fumes from the delivery truck.	Dizziness, lightheadedness, headache-toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect	BODY SYSTEMS	Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode	Carbon monoxide	Delivery truck or van
14/05/2021	GG Contractors Group	Cape Coral	Fl	An employee was working on a roof, stepped on a plywood sheet, and fell through the roof to the ground resulting in a broken arm required surgery and two fractured discs.	Fractures	Multiple body parts	Fall through surface or existing opening	Roof surfaces other than roof edge	Floors, walkways, ground surfaces
26/01/2021	KIEFNER BROTHERS INC.	Cape Girardeau	Mo	An employee was driving a concrete cart. As the cart turned from a street into a parking lot, it hit the concrete lip at the drive entrance. The handlebars jarred, hitting the employee in the side and causing him to fall off the cart. He landed on the concrete and suffered a broken left hip.	Fractures	Hip(s)	Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway	Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, n.e.c
05/10/2020	Nor-Tech Power Boats, Inc	Cape Coral	Fl	Two employees were preparing a vessel for cleaning. The injured employee was on the deck of the vessel handing pieces of plywood (temporary compartment covers) out of the side dive door to the other employee who was standing on the ground. The injured employee slipped and fell from the boat to the ground and suffered a rib injury.	Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury	Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Other fall to lower level	Water vehicle	Floors, walkways, ground surfaces
03/10/2020	FP Property Repairs, Inc.	Cape Coral	Fl	An employee was standing on a ladder scaffold with a wood plank platform, about 4-5 feet above the ground, placing siding on a house. The plank snapped in half and the employee fell to the ground, suffering a broken ankle.	Fractures	Ankle(s)	Fall through surface or existing opening less than 6 feet	Scaffolds-staging	Floors, walkways, ground surfaces
08/09/2020	LATITE ROOFING AND SHEET METAL COMPANY, INC.	Cape Coral	Fl	An employee was working on a flat roof and began to feel unwell. He was hospitalized for dehydration.	Effects of heat and light, n.e.c.	BODY SYSTEMS	Exposure to environmental heat	Heat-environmental
01/04/2020	MELVIN MILLS ROOFING LLC	Cape Girardeau	Missouri	An employee was climbing a ladder to a roof. The employee fell from the ladder to the ground, suffering a broken pelvis, a shattered left heel, fractured lower vertebrae, and a ruptured spleen.	Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.	Multiple body parts	Other fall to lower level	Ladders	Floors, walkways, ground surfaces
13/03/2020	SUNRISE COMMUNITY OF SW FLORIDA	Cape Coral	Florida	An employee climbed a 6-foot ladder to cut a tree branch. While cutting the tree branch with an electric saw, the employee lost balance and fell off the ladder sideways, landing on the left side of his back. The employee sustained fractures to the left wrist, ribs, and pelvis.	Fractures	Multiple body parts	Other fall to lower level	Movable ladders	Floors, walkways, ground surfaces
31/01/2020	Met-Con Inc	Cape Canaveral	Florida	An employee was using a mag drill when his glove was caught in the drill and his left thumb was amputated.	Amputations	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation	Drills-stationary	Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
14/01/2020	QC LLC	Cape Girardeau	Missouri	Two employees were working to unchoke a dust collector. The injured employee suffered amputation of two fingertips when he contacted the rotating rotary valve. The valve was unguarded at the time of the incident.	Amputations	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning	Heating, cooling, and cleaning machinery and appliances
22/08/2019	THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION	Cape Canaveral	Florida	After cutting insulated panels outdoors, an employee was climbing a stair to a work trailer when he fell to the ground due to heat exhaustion and dehydration, injuring his shoulder. He was hospitalized.	Multiple effects of heat and light	BODY SYSTEMS	Exposure to environmental heat	Heat-environmental
09/06/2019	SEAPORT CANAVERAL CORP.	Cape Canaveral	Florida	An employee was restarting a vapor combustion unit when a burner lit, causing a flash fire. The employee suffered second degree burns.	Second degree heat (thermal) burns	Nonclassifiable	Contact with hot objects or substances	Special process machinery
30/05/2019	SEMO Ready Mix	Cape Girardeau	Missouri	An employee was descending a loader and fell fracturing his hip.	Fractures	Hip(s)	Other fall to lower level	Loaders	Floors, walkways, ground surfaces
11/05/2019	Legend Senior Living	Cape Coral	Florida	An employee walked through an area of wet carpet and then stepped onto a tiled area and slipped. The employee fell and broke her wrist.	Fractures	Wrist(s)	Fall on same level due to slipping	Floor
02/05/2019	SEMO READY MIX INC.	Cape Girardeau	Missouri	An employee had been using a chipping gun to dislodge hardened concrete inside a plant mixer drum. The employee was being relieved by another employee and stood up to exit the drum. He then slipped on concrete debris, lost balance and fell forward striking his right side on a mixing fin in the drum. The employee fractured two ribs.	Fractures	Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Fall onto or against object on same level, n.e.c.	Floor	Agitators, mixers-earth, mineral
16/04/2019	P & T Tractor Services Inc	Cape Coral	Florida	On 4/16/2019, at approximately 12:00 p.m., an employee was mowing grass along the road when he attempted to remove a piece of wood that was lodged underneath the mower. The mower's moving pulley and belt lacerated his left hand, damaging the tendons and requiring hospitalization and surgery.	Cuts, lacerations	Hand(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning	Mowing machinery
15/04/2019	The Boat House of Cape Coral	Cape Coral	Florida	An employee had been cleaning a boat when he was found unresponsive and was not breathing. He sustained a bump on his head above his eye.	Bruises, contusions	Head	Nonclassifiable	Nonclassifiable
05/04/2019	Orion Marine Group, Inc.	Cape Canaveral	Florida	An employee was using an angle grinder when he tripped on a sea wall grounding wire, causing the angle grinder to contact and lacerate his right knee as he fell to the ground. The angle grinder blade was unguarded at the time.	Cuts, lacerations	Knee(s)	Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker	Hand grinders-powered
04/02/2019	ST. FRANCIS MEDICAL CENTER	Cape Girardeau	Missouri	An employee was walking to her vehicle, slipped or tripped and fell in the parking lot breaking a hip. The injury required surgery to repair.	Fractures	Hip(s)	Fall on same level	Parking lot
15/09/2018	D. PECK ROOFING, INC.	Cape Coral	Florida	While re-roofing a home, an employee fell off the one-story roof to the ground. The employee suffered a broken forearm.	Fractures	Forearm(s)	Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet	Roofs	Floors, walkways, ground surfaces
14/09/2018	Pospiech Contracting	Cape Coral	Florida	An employee was compacting dirt using a plate compactor when a rubber-track mini-excavator ran over his left foot, breaking two bones.	Fractures	Foot (feet)	Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area	Mini excavators
28/08/2018	HARBOUR FREIGHT TOOLS	Cape Girardeau	Missouri	An employee was helping a customer load a product when he tripped over a sidewalk, injuring his knee on the ground. Feeling dizzy and short of breath, he was hospitalized.	Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury	Knee(s)	Fall on same level due to tripping	Sidewalks, paths, outdoor walkways
15/08/2018	Sun Communities Inc	Cape May	New Jersey	An employee tripped and fell while walking, suffering a fractured hip that required hospitalization.	Fractures	Hip(s)	Fall on same level due to tripping	Floors, walkways, ground surfaces
21/07/2018	Trans Papa Logistics, Inc	Cape Coral	Florida	An employee was working inside a tractor trailer during a delivery when he lost his balance and fell from the open door of the tractor trailer, landing on the lift gate support. He suffered three fractured right-side ribs and a punctured lung.	Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk	Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Other fall to lower level	Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck	Nonclassifiable
18/06/2018	Quality Tree Service	Cape Girardeau	Missouri	An employee was in a bucket truck when it became overloaded and ejected him. He suffered collapsed lungs and a broken back. Fall protection was not worn at the time of the incident.	Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.	Multiple trunk locations	Other fall to lower level	Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck	Nonclassifiable
10/06/2018	SOUTHEAST MISSOURI HOSPITAL	Cape Girardeau	Missouri	An employee was working on the boiler room air conditioner and fell from a step ladder. The employee fractured the right arm and suffered a head contusion, bruising down the right side of his body as well as an abrasion on his left hand.	Fractures	Arm(s)	Other fall to lower level	Step ladders	Nonclassifiable
10/05/2018	Dutch Enterprises Inc.	Cape Girardeau	Missouri	An employee was servicing rooftop HVAC units and turning off a water valve when he was attacked by bees or wasps. As he tried to swat and move away from them, he fell approximately 13 feet from the roof to the ground.	Traumatic injuries and disorders	Nonclassifiable	Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet	Roof edges	Bees, hornets, wasps
01/05/2018	PRINCE LAND, INC.	Cape Coral	Florida	An employee was cutting a piece of iron pipe with a chop saw when the saw kicked back and lacerated his left cheek, requiring stitches.	Cuts, lacerations	Cheek(s)	Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment	Sawing machinery-stationary
13/04/2018	Mersino Dewater Inc.	Cape Coral	Florida	Two employees were replacing a water pump on a flatbed truck. The water pump had been raised underneath the truck with a jack. The injured employee had just finished removing the bolts that attached the old water pump to the rest of the vehicle, and was attempting to lower the pump to the ground with a floor jack. The second employee attempted to release pressure off of the hydraulic floor jack in order to lower the old part to the ground while the injured employee was attempting to hold the par	Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk	Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.	Engine parts and accessories	Jacks
12/04/2018	Sauer Group, Inc	Cape Canaveral	Florida	An employee was ascending or descending stairs when she tripped and landed on her right hip, suffering right hip pain.	Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury	Hip(s)	Fall, slip, trip	Stairs, steps
29/03/2018	Lockheed Martin Corporation	Cape Canaveral	Florida	An employee was hospitalized after showing signs of a possible heart attack while completing a work-related treadmill stress test to keep his SCAPE certification.	Myocardial infarction (heart attack)	Heart	Multiple types of exertions and bodily reactions	Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
07/03/2018	TWS Fabricators, Inc.	Cape Coral	Florida	An employee was up on an I-beam, tied off to set a long span joist on the wide flange beam. As the joist was coming up into position, it got close to his foot. He moved his foot, lost his balance, and fell off the beam. The retractable caught him, bounced once, and swung toward the building. The bottom flange of the I-beam then severed the retractable and the employee fell approximately 10 feet onto the sand/concrete floor. He fractured his left wrist and was hospitalized.	Fractures	Wrist(s)	Other fall to lower level	Structural elements
14/02/2018	Big Lots	Cape May Court House	New Jersey	An employee fell from a ladder and fractured the tibia.	Fractures	Lower leg(s)	Other fall to lower level	Ladders
08/02/2018	Cape Regional Medical Center	Cape May Court House	New Jersey	A security officer was pushed to the ground by a patient resulting in a left ankle fracture.	Fractures	Ankle(s)	Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving	Patient
23/01/2018	Indian River Beverage Corporation	Cape Canaveral	Florida	An employee was cleaning a filling machine when he observed defective caps locked in the supply channels to the capper. He put the capper in manual mode and manually moved the joint with his left hand as he tried to remove the crowns with his right hand. During this operation, one of his fingers entered the moving machine, severing his fingertip.	Amputations	Fingertip(s)	Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects	Bottling, canning, filling machinery
31/08/2017	The Boat House of Cape Coral	Cape Coral	Florida	An employee was using a cutting wheel to open a crate when a piece of the wheel broke off and struck his ankle, requiring hospitalization and surgery.	Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury	Ankle(s)	Struck by dislodged flying object, particle	Chips, particles, splinters	Hand grinders-powered
27/07/2017	Ozark Gas	Cape Girardeau	Missouri	An employee had been removing valve caps from acetylene cylinders using an electric drill equipped with an attachment. Acetylene gas was ignited by a spark and the employee was hospitalized for burns.	Heat (thermal) burns	Nonclassifiable	Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids	Chemicals
15/03/2017	United Launch Alliance	Cape Canaveral	Florida	An employee was assisting other employees to raise a tower. When he placed his hand on a cable to provide tension on it to aide in the operation, his right hand contacted a pulley and sustained a partial amputation of the pinky finger.	Amputations	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects	Drums, pulleys, sheaves
19/09/2016	Hamilton Roofing Inc.	Cape Canaveral	Florida	An employee was getting ready to start the kettle motor on the tar kettle. The pipe was not hooked up yet, causing hot tar to burn his face, neck, and arms.	Heat (thermal) burns	Multiple body parts	Contact with hot objects or substances	Roofing asphalt, roofing tar
19/08/2016	Walgreens Co.	Cape Coral	Florida	An employee was lifting product while stocking and injured his lower back.	Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury	Lumbar region	Overexertion in lifting-single episode	Nonclassifiable
14/08/2016	BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc.	Cape Coral	Florida	While standing on a step stool to stock shampoo on a shelf, an employee fell and struck the right arm on the concrete floor, fracturing the upper arm.	Fractures	Upper arm(s)	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet	Step ladders
15/06/2016	Brockmiller Construction	Cape Girardeau	Missouri	An employee became ill after working inside a new construction building for part of the day and also outside part of the day. He was hospitalized that evening for heat stroke.	Heat stroke	BODY SYSTEMS	Exposure to environmental heat	Heat-environmental
10/05/2016	PROCTOR & GAMBLE PAPER PRODUCTS	Cape Girardeau	Missouri	An employee was preparing to replace a gear box while his fingers were wrapped with a paper towel. A chain near the gear box caught the paper towel and pulled his fingers into an in-running nip point, amputating his right index and middle fingertips.	Amputations	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning	Machinery	Source, n.e.c.
13/01/2016	BP Roofing Inc.	Cape Coral	Florida	While attempting to load the panel used to cover the skylight on the roof, an employee fell approximately 9 feet through the skylight and hit his head on the ground below.	Intracranial injuries	Brain	Fall through surface or existing opening 6 to 10 feet	Skylights
10/01/2016	Caloosa Cooling L.L.C.	Cape Coral	Florida	An employee was organizing his work truck when a large tank of R-22 refrigerant fell out of the truck, causing the valve to open and spray the employee. He received chemical burns to his face, neck, shoulders, and chest area.	Chemical burns and corrosions	Multiple body parts	Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue	Fluorine compounds
29/10/2015	Donald Construction Services, Inc.	Cape Coral	Florida	An employee lost his footing while climbing down a ladder and fell approximately eight feet to the concrete ground fracturing the left leg.	Fractures	Leg(s)	Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet	Ladders
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