| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-10 | Cape Coral | Fl | Facility Gateway Corporation | Hand(s) | Direct exposure to electricity |
| An employee was connecting batteries to an uninterruptible power supply system. A few batteries shorted out, causing second-degree burns to his hands. He was hospitalized, requiring skin grafts. | |||||
| 2021-09-21 | Cape Coral | Fl | AJ BUILDING CONTRACTORS, LLC | Elbow(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| Two employees were working on the roof of a two-story residential home. They were aligning sun trusses. They had a ladder on each end and were on the ladders holding the bottoms of the trusses, about 3-4 feet high. The trusses began to shift and several fell, creating a domino effect. The employees were knocked to the ground, together suffering a dislocated/fractured elbow, a forehead laceration, and a dislocated/fractured toe. They were hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-07-09 | Cape Coral | Fl | U.S. Postal Service | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| An employee was delivering mail and felt dizzy from inhaling the exhaust fumes from the delivery truck. | |||||
| 2021-05-14 | Cape Coral | Fl | GG Contractors Group | Multiple body parts | Fall through surface or existing opening |
| An employee was working on a roof, stepped on a plywood sheet, and fell through the roof to the ground resulting in a broken arm required surgery and two fractured discs. | |||||
| 2020-10-05 | Cape Coral | Fl | Nor-Tech Power Boats, Inc | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level |
| Two employees were preparing a vessel for cleaning. The injured employee was on the deck of the vessel handing pieces of plywood (temporary compartment covers) out of the side dive door to the other employee who was standing on the ground. The injured employee slipped and fell from the boat to the ground and suffered a rib injury. | |||||
| 2020-10-03 | Cape Coral | Fl | FP Property Repairs, Inc. | Ankle(s) | Fall through surface or existing opening less than 6 feet |
| An employee was standing on a ladder scaffold with a wood plank platform, about 4-5 feet above the ground, placing siding on a house. The plank snapped in half and the employee fell to the ground, suffering a broken ankle. | |||||
| 2020-09-08 | Cape Coral | Fl | LATITE ROOFING AND SHEET METAL COMPANY, INC. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was working on a flat roof and began to feel unwell. He was hospitalized for dehydration. | |||||
| 2020-03-13 | Cape Coral | Florida | SUNRISE COMMUNITY OF SW FLORIDA | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee climbed a 6-foot ladder to cut a tree branch. While cutting the tree branch with an electric saw, the employee lost balance and fell off the ladder sideways, landing on the left side of his back. The employee sustained fractures to the left wrist, ribs, and pelvis. | |||||
| 2019-05-11 | Cape Coral | Florida | Legend Senior Living | Wrist(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee walked through an area of wet carpet and then stepped onto a tiled area and slipped. The employee fell and broke her wrist. | |||||
| 2019-04-16 | Cape Coral | Florida | P & T Tractor Services Inc | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| On 4/16/2019, at approximately 12:00 p.m., an employee was mowing grass along the road when he attempted to remove a piece of wood that was lodged underneath the mower. The mower's moving pulley and belt lacerated his left hand, damaging the tendons and requiring hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
| 2019-04-15 | Cape Coral | Florida | The Boat House of Cape Coral | Head | Nonclassifiable |
| An employee had been cleaning a boat when he was found unresponsive and was not breathing. He sustained a bump on his head above his eye. | |||||
| 2018-09-15 | Cape Coral | Florida | D. PECK ROOFING, INC. | Forearm(s) | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| While re-roofing a home, an employee fell off the one-story roof to the ground. The employee suffered a broken forearm. | |||||
| 2018-09-14 | Cape Coral | Florida | Pospiech Contracting | Foot (feet) | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area |
| An employee was compacting dirt using a plate compactor when a rubber-track mini-excavator ran over his left foot, breaking two bones. | |||||
| 2018-07-21 | Cape Coral | Florida | Trans Papa Logistics, Inc | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was working inside a tractor trailer during a delivery when he lost his balance and fell from the open door of the tractor trailer, landing on the lift gate support. He suffered three fractured right-side ribs and a punctured lung. | |||||
| 2018-05-01 | Cape Coral | Florida | PRINCE LAND, INC. | Cheek(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was cutting a piece of iron pipe with a chop saw when the saw kicked back and lacerated his left cheek, requiring stitches. | |||||
| 2018-04-13 | Cape Coral | Florida | Mersino Dewater Inc. | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| Two employees were replacing a water pump on a flatbed truck. The water pump had been raised underneath the truck with a jack. The injured employee had just finished removing the bolts that attached the old water pump to the rest of the vehicle, and was attempting to lower the pump to the ground with a floor jack. The second employee attempted to release pressure off of the hydraulic floor jack in order to lower the old part to the ground while the injured employee was attempting to hold the par | |||||
| 2018-03-07 | Cape Coral | Florida | TWS Fabricators, Inc. | Wrist(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was up on an I-beam, tied off to set a long span joist on the wide flange beam. As the joist was coming up into position, it got close to his foot. He moved his foot, lost his balance, and fell off the beam. The retractable caught him, bounced once, and swung toward the building. The bottom flange of the I-beam then severed the retractable and the employee fell approximately 10 feet onto the sand/concrete floor. He fractured his left wrist and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-08-31 | Cape Coral | Florida | The Boat House of Cape Coral | Ankle(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was using a cutting wheel to open a crate when a piece of the wheel broke off and struck his ankle, requiring hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
| 2016-08-19 | Cape Coral | Florida | Walgreens Co. | Lumbar region | Overexertion in lifting-single episode |
| An employee was lifting product while stocking and injured his lower back. | |||||
| 2016-08-14 | Cape Coral | Florida | BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc. | Upper arm(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| While standing on a step stool to stock shampoo on a shelf, an employee fell and struck the right arm on the concrete floor, fracturing the upper arm. | |||||
| 2016-01-13 | Cape Coral | Florida | BP Roofing Inc. | Brain | Fall through surface or existing opening 6 to 10 feet |
| While attempting to load the panel used to cover the skylight on the roof, an employee fell approximately 9 feet through the skylight and hit his head on the ground below. | |||||
| 2016-01-10 | Cape Coral | Florida | Caloosa Cooling L.L.C. | Multiple body parts | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee was organizing his work truck when a large tank of R-22 refrigerant fell out of the truck, causing the valve to open and spray the employee. He received chemical burns to his face, neck, shoulders, and chest area. | |||||
| 2015-10-29 | Cape Coral | Florida | Donald Construction Services, Inc. | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee lost his footing while climbing down a ladder and fell approximately eight feet to the concrete ground fracturing the left leg. | |||||
| 2015-08-22 | Cape Coral | Florida | Currier Roofing, Inc. | Knee(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee pulled the start cord on a generator, and the generator fell on the employee. The employee suffered a strained knee. | |||||
| 2015-08-02 | Cape Coral | Florida | Publix Super Market | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Overexertion in lifting-single episode |
| An employee was lifting a 5-gallon oil container to empty it when he felt a pop. He was hospitalized with a collapsed lung. | |||||
| 2015-05-27 | Cape Coral | Florida | Oldcastle Precast | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| A temporary employee was setting up a precast form onsite. The employee was attempting to insert a safety pin into the precast form bracket. As he was inserting the pin, his left middle finger was caught between the form and the bracket which crushed/pinched the tip of employee's finger. There was no bone loss; only skin and finger nail. | |||||
| 2015-01-23 | Cape Coral | Florida | Coastal Building Materials | BODY SYSTEMS | Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| Employee was touching a boom truck used to deliver building materials while his co-worker was trying to lower the boom back into the truck. The boom struck a power line and the employee on the ground received an electric shock and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2015-01-01 | Cape Coral | Florida | The Home Depot, Inc. | Elbow(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was hospitalized after slipping and falling while working as a member of the night freight crew, resulting in an injury to his right elbow. | |||||