Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-02-16 | Bethany | Ok | Firestone Complete Auto Care | Leg(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee slipped on ice while walking to his vehicle. He fell to the ground and suffered a broken leg. | |||||
2021-02-08 | Bethany | La | Patterson-UTI Energy Inc | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was closing a manhole cover in the floor of a mud pit when a disconnected 6-inch discharge line lying next to the cover shifted, pinching the end of the employee's finger between the floor grating and the discharge line. The employee suffered an amputation of the tip of his left middle finger. | |||||
2020-03-12 | Bethany Beach | Delaware | Servicemax of Delmarva, LLC | Thigh(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was removing overhead wood framing from a soffit. His foot slipped and he fell, breaking his right femur against a concrete flower planter. | |||||
2019-08-17 | Bethany | Oklahoma | U.S. Postal Service | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
On August 17, 2019, a mail carrier was at the last stop of his route when he became nauseated and began vomiting. He was hospitalized for heat-related illness. | |||||
2019-06-04 | Bethany | Connecticut | Collins and Company | Wrist(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was on a 24-foot extension ladder when the ladder's metal feet slid on the smooth concrete floor and the employee fell about 8 feet to the floor. In striking the floor and the ladder, he suffered a broken wrist. | |||||
2016-08-06 | Bethany | Oklahoma | AT&T Services, Inc. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall on same level due to tripping |
An employee was carrying a ladder on his hip when he tripped and fell, landing on top of the ladder. He later experienced irregular breathing and was hospitalized with nine fractured ribs, a collapsed lung, a broken collar bone, and shoulder and hip sprains. | |||||
2016-05-19 | Bethany | Missouri | Overland Contracting, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to other harmful substances |
An employee was climbing a telecommunications tower without incident. A co-worker looked over and the employee appeared to be in pain while holding on to the tower at a height of approximately 250 feet. No fall or other event occurred. The employee just climbed the tower and started feeling pain in his lower back. Tower rescue was initiated and the employee was lowered to the ground. The employee was using a personal fall arrest system and was fully tied-off when he experienced the pain. U | |||||
2015-09-10 | Bethany Beach | Delaware | Humanim, Inc. | Hand(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was cutting a doorway frame using a saw when the frame fell onto the employee and struck the back of his hand. The nails or other protrusions punctured the skin on his right hand. He was hospitalized. |