| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-05-24 | Abbeville | La | Cox Communications Louisiana | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was climbing a 28-foot ladder on the side of a customer's home. The ladder shifted causing the employee to fall to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with rib fractures and lacerations to his head and hands. | |||||
| 2021-05-11 | Abbeville | Al | Greenbush Logistics, Inc. | Arm(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was connecting a tractor to a trailer. The employee got out of the truck to check the connection and his right arm was caught between the fifth wheel and the trailer and fractured. | |||||
| 2020-10-19 | Abbeville | Al | Abbeville Fiber, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was clearing a jam on the conveyor belt leading to the chipper when a stump kicked back and jammed his right ring finger resulting in a compound fracture and secondary partial amputation. | |||||
| 2020-10-18 | Abbeville | La | Sparrows Group (Energy Cranes) | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| Employee was assisting the platform manager to move a drum of oil with a dolly. While setting the dolly down, he smashed the tip of his finger between the handle of the dolly and a beam on the platform. This resulted in the amputation of his right middle fingertip. | |||||
| 2020-10-13 | Abbeville | La | Family Dollar | Nonclassifiable | Shooting by other person-intentional |
| An employee had just clocked out and was walking to his car in the parking lot when he was shot by an individual who had been waiting for him in the parking lot. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-08-13 | Abbeville | Louisiana | SOLPOWERLINES, LLC | Multiple body parts | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| An employee in a bucket truck was removing the cover off of a center phase 35.5-kV top circuit and was hit by an arc flash. The employee sustained third degree burns to the neck and the left side of a hand. The employee also sustained first and second degree burns to the face, right shoulder and arm, and around the back from rib to rib. | |||||
| 2019-04-18 | Abbeville | Louisiana | Omega Protein | Brain | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was bailing fish when the bail line received pressure. The employee lost control and fell backwards, striking his head on the grating. He suffered a laceration to the back of the head and a brain bleed. | |||||
| 2018-08-21 | Abbeville | Louisiana | Omega Protein | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall, slip, trip |
| An employee was blowing down fish with an airline hose when he took a step back, lost his balance, and fell on a step located behind him. He injured his right rib and right lung. | |||||
| 2018-04-27 | Abbeville | Louisiana | ACADIAN CONTRACTORS, INC. | Foot (feet) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was walking next to a pipe that was being moved with a forklift when the synthetic strap slipped off the pipe and one side of the pipe fell onto the top of the employee's foot behind the protective steel toe. The employee sustained a dislocated big toe and open and closed fractures. | |||||
| 2017-10-13 | Abbeville | Louisiana | Omega protein | Lower leg(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| As boats were being separated, a cleat from the stern line of a boat broke loose and struck an employee's leg, fracturing the right tibia. | |||||
| 2017-01-07 | Abbeville | Louisiana | Nabors Drilling Technologies USA, Inc. | Hand(s), except finger(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| Employees were using an air hoist to lift/move a crossover sub (pipe) on the platform floor. The lifting cap on the air hoist failed and the load fell on an employee's hand, causing a burst wound in his palm and a fracture in the bottom bone of his hand. | |||||
| 2016-09-19 | Abbeville | Alabama | Great Southern Wood Preserving, Incorporated | Thigh(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was loading wood onto a stack when lumber fell off the stack and struck his right leg, fracturing his femur. | |||||
| 2016-03-09 | Abbeville | Louisiana | Broussard Brothers, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was guiding a metal grating, which was being lifted by an excavator bucket to its final location, when the rigging slipped from the excavator hook. The metal grating then fell, striking the employee in the left leg just below the knee. The impact fractured the employee's tibia and fibula, requiring surgery. | |||||