Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-10-13 | Bay Saint Louis | Ms | PrideStaff, Inc./Jindal Tubular | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was cleaning a hydraulic conveyor roller while a large steel pipe was on the conveyor. The employee's right hand was caught between the conveyor roller and the pipe resulting in amputation of the employee's thumb and lacerations to the index finger and palm. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2020-09-30 | Bay Saint Louis | Ms | Jindal Tubular USA LLC | Hip(s) and leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
An employee was applying pipe identification to a pipe moving along a v-roller line. A support frame failed and the pipe fell over, injuring the employee's hips/pelvis and leg. | |||||
2019-09-07 | Bay Saint Louis | Mississippi | Jindal Tubular USA LLC | Nonclassifiable | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was grinding the end of a 30-inch diameter, 40-foot long spiral steel pipe. The pipe was spinning and was set on fixed rotating wheels. The employee was in line with the V-roller line which brings pipe to the rotation station. The V-roller line engaged, sending a pipe in a south to north track. The employee was caught between the moving pipe and the pipe that was on the rotating wheels. The employee was hospitalized for an abrasion. | |||||
2019-06-26 | Bay Saint Louis | Mississippi | DAK Americas Mississippi, Inc. | Face | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was assisting in the removal of a monomer pump bowl when he was sprayed with hot monomer (a slurry of PET plastic) and sustained a second degree burn to the lower face. | |||||
2019-05-15 | Bay Saint Louis | Mississippi | Ochsun Hancock Medical Center | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure through medical injection |
An employee had a reaction to an MMR vaccination; they had chest pains and an elevated heart rate. | |||||
2019-03-29 | Bay Saint Louis | Mississippi | Jindal Tubular USA, LLC | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
An employee was cutting welding wire from a welding machine's welding head when he was struck from behind by the welding machine boom and knocked into a steel pipe that was being loaded onto the welding rack. He suffered a ruptured intestine and torn ligament in the right leg. | |||||
2019-03-14 | Bay Saint Louis | Mississippi | Pridestaff, Inc. | Leg(s) | Ran off driving surface, nonroadway |
An employee was operating a forklift to stack pallets. While the employee was backing up, the forklift began to fall from the loading dock. He attempted to dismount the forklift, but it pinned his leg and knee. He was later hospitalized for a blood clot in his leg. | |||||
2016-08-24 | Bay Saint Louis | Mississippi | TL WALLACE CONSTRUCTION, INC. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was hospitalized for dehydration after working at a jobsite setting pipe and operating equipment. | |||||
2015-01-26 | Bay Saint Louis | Mississippi | Blossman Gas, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
While making deliveries the vehicle's brakes failed causing the vehicle to roll. The driver tried to stop the vehicle by chocking the wheel. While attempting to chock the passenger side rear wheel the employee's left index finger was trapped between the metal chock and the tire resulting in an amputation. |