| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-13 | Bartow | Fl | ORANGE INDUSTRIAL SERVICES, LLC | Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was pressure washing and when he pulled the trigger to the pressure washer the shoulder stock shot back into his right shoulder, resulting in a fracture that required hospitalization. | |||||
| 2021-04-22 | Bartonville | Tx | Kroger Fuel Center | Head | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was removing the cover for an exterior fuel window drawer. She fell and struck her head on the brick pillar behind her and sustained a head laceration. | |||||
| 2021-01-11 | Bartow | Fl | H2A Complete II, Inc. | Hip(s) and leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
| A bus backed into an employee who was working in a field as a harvester. The employee suffered ankle and hip fractures, as well as torn back ligaments. | |||||
| 2020-09-09 | Bartonsville | Pa | UPS | Nonclassifiable | Other animal bites, nonvenomous |
| An employee was attacked by a dog while delivering a package. The employee suffered multiple bites and was hospitalized, requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2020-01-13 | Bartonville | Texas | Fred Meyer Jewelers | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was stocking empty watch boxes onto shelves while on a rolling stool when the stool rolled out from underneath the employee. The employee fell to the floor, suffering a fractured hip. | |||||
| 2019-06-18 | Bartow | Florida | Valmont Utility Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was working in a de-molding section. While he was walking on the back of the plate of the mold, the tension plate fell off and landed on his legs. His left fibula was broken and tissue was torn in his right leg, requiring stitching. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-04-02 | Bartonville | Illinois | Scheck Mechanical Corp. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| On April 2, 2019, an employee was holding onto a hoist chain with one hand and placed the other hand above the hoist block. As the employee pushed the load away from the handrail, the employee's glove pulled the employee's right hand into the hoist block, pinching the fifth digit between the chain guide and hoist chain. As a result, the employee suffered a right pinky finger distal phalanx fracture and soft tissue avulsion, requiring hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
| 2019-01-24 | Bartow | Florida | L & M Pallet Services Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| While cutting lumber using a chop saw, an employee sustained a partial amputation of the right middle and index fingers. | |||||
| 2018-08-10 | Bartow | Florida | Wharton-Smith | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was collapsing forms when his finger slid down the side of the form and was amputated. | |||||
| 2018-07-24 | Bartonsville | Pennsylvania | Epic Health Services, Inc. | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was performing home health care services in a resident's private home when the employee fell down a set of wet stairs and experienced internal bleeding, contusions, and a bruised spine, hip, and buttocks. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-01-10 | Bartow | Florida | B & R Profiles | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was starting up a grinder pulverizer when he noticed that water was leaking from the pulverizer. As he tried to wipe away the water, his fingers became trapped by one of the pulverizer fins. He suffered a hand injury and was hospitalized. The pulverizer was running at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2017-10-05 | Barto | Pennsylvania | Henkels & McCoy, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Entangled in other object or equipment |
| An employee was tying rope to a pole when a vehicle simultaneously pulled the other end of the rope. The employee's right index finger became entangled and amputated in the rope. | |||||
| 2016-07-20 | Bartow | Florida | Valmont Newmark, Inc. | Foot (feet) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee's foot was pinned under the motor of a gantry crane he was operating. He was pulled along for 38 inches and was hospitalized with two broken toes and a broken metatarsal. | |||||
| 2015-12-10 | Barto | Pennsylvania | Advanced Disposal | Foot (feet) | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in roadway |
| An employee was getting out of the refuse truck and was struck by a car that ran over his foot. | |||||
| 2015-12-10 | Bartonville | Illinois | SNS Construction Services, Inc. | Skull | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was hanging dry wall from a 5-ft high scaffold and was found unconscious on the floor with multiple skull fractures by his co-worker who heard the noise from the other side of the wall and came to his aid. The employer assumes the employee was climbing down when the scaffold tipped over and he fell head first onto the concrete floor. | |||||
| 2015-09-29 | Bartow | Florida | Valmont Newmark, Inc. | Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| While a travel crane operator was in the process of climbing up to the cab of the crane, he slipped off a rung that was approximately 28 inches from the ground and hit his head on the ground. He suffered a laceration to the skull along with swelling at the base of his spine near the neck. | |||||
| 2015-09-27 | Bartow | Florida | Flanders Corporation | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Overexertion in lifting-single episode |
| An employee lifted, carried, and placed 6-inch frames, which weighed approximately 28 pounds, 3 feet to a nearby table. While separating the material, he felt a pop in his stomach and instantly experienced pain. He was hospitalized for rupturing a pre-existing hernia, requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2015-05-08 | Bartonville | Illinois | Bartlett Management Peoria, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was burned when he opened a pressure fryer before all the pressure was relieved. The equipment safety device to prevent the lid from opening before all pressure was released malfunctioned at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2015-04-26 | Bartow | Florida | Flanders Corporation | Nonclassifiable | Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway |
| An employee fell off of an electric pallet jack onto the concrete floor after turning into an aisle. | |||||
| 2015-02-10 | Bartonville | Illinois | Dohrn Transfer Company LLC | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee in the yard at the Bartonville, Illinois, location was exposed to a fall from a stationary vehicle when cleaning a mirror on a semi-trailer truck. | |||||