Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-03-26 | Alachua | Fl | Thermo Fisher VVS | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over self |
On March 26, 2021, an employee was walking across the lab and her left boot laces caught on the speed lace eyelets of her right boot causing her to fall on the floor and fracture her right ankle. She was hospitalized. | |||||
2020-03-05 | Alachua | Florida | Florida Farms Inc. | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee fell down the stairs from an office trailer, landing on the ground and breaking his leg in two places. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-08-13 | Alachua | Florida | O'Steen Brothers, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
At 1:00 PM on August 13, 2019, an employee was working on a storm drainage pipe-laying project when the employee experienced cramps and nausea, requiring hospitalization for heat illness-related dehydration. | |||||
2019-07-04 | Alachua | Florida | Wal-Mart Distribution Center | Foot (feet) | Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object |
An employee stepped off his powered equipment and it pinned his left foot against a tier rack. The foot was broken and the employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2018-07-18 | Alachua | Florida | Walmart Distribution Center #7035 | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was pushing a cart when he slipped on spilled liquid soap, fracturing his left ankle. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2017-07-28 | Alachua | Florida | Alchem Laboratories Corp. | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was repairing a 55-gallon stainless steel mixing tank from a six foot step ladder. He was positioned on the second step of the ladder when he miss-stepped and slid down the side of the tank. He was hospitalized for internal bleeding. | |||||
2017-03-10 | Alachua | Florida | Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. | Ankle(s) | Fall or jump from and struck by same vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway |
An employee was driving a stand up pallet jack along the shipping lane. When she stepped out of the pallet jack while it was in motion, her ankle was caught between the angle iron and the pallet jack's platform resulting in a compound fracture to her right ankle. The injured employee was admitted to the hospital. | |||||
2015-05-20 | Alachua | Florida | Walmart Distribution Center #7035 | Foot (feet) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
An employee was driving an RC lift truck towards the drinking water fountain to get a drink of water. As he approached the water fountain, he did not brake in time, so he used his left foot to stop the RC lift truck. His foot got pinned between the RC lift truck and the bollard that surrounded the water fountain. He was hospitalized for surgery on his lacerated left foot. |