| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-03 | Fort Buchanan | Pr | Department of Defense Education Activity | Hand(s) | Direct exposure to electricity |
| An employee was hospitalized when he suffered electrical shock while servicing a school's HVAC system, causing burns to his hands and chest pains. | |||||
| 2021-01-18 | Buchanan | Ga | Carroll EMC | Leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was tending to an electrical pole when slack in the rope caused the pole to fall to the ground, bounce, and strike the employee in his left leg, resulting in a fracture. | |||||
| 2018-04-18 | Buchanan | Georgia | Atlanta Structural Concrete | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was standing on a load on top of a truck using a chain to tie down precast concrete beams when he passed out and fell 10 feet off of the truck onto gravel-covered ground, suffering fractured vertebrae. | |||||
| 2018-01-04 | Buchanan | New York | Entergy Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was moving a drum barrel from a pallet with his hands when the barrel tilted coming off the pallet, pinching and crushing his finger between the barrel and the wall. | |||||
| 2017-04-07 | Buchanan | Georgia | Suzukaku USA, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was using a saw to cut metal recreational vehicle parts. He was changing from cutting one type of part to another when he saw some of the old material inside the guard of the machine. As he attempted to remove the material, the saw blade amputated his left ring finger. | |||||
| 2016-09-06 | Buchanan | New York | Nature Tree Inc. | Head and trunk | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee fell from a truck while removing a ladder, suffering head and back injuries. | |||||
| 2016-01-08 | Fort Buchanan | Puerto Rico | Bermudez, Longo, Diaz-Masso, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was doing maintenance on a piece of equipment that was shut down. He grabbed the motor's damper/pulley belt and pulled the belt toward himself. This caused the damper/pulley to rotate, pinning his right-hand thumb between the damper/pulley and the belt. As a result, the top part of his right-hand thumb (approximately 1/8" to 3/16") was amputated. | |||||
| 2015-12-31 | Fort Buchanan | Puerto Rico | Three Os Construction Inc. SE | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee fell 12 feet while climbing a ladder to gain access to a scaffold work platform. The employee was hospitalized due to multiple fractures. | |||||