Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-10-29 | Clewiston | Fl | Energy Erectors, Inc. | Pelvis | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was digging a trench using a mini excavator. The edge of the trench caved in and he slipped and fell about 6 feet. He suffered a broken pelvis and was hospitalized for surgery. | |||||
2020-10-13 | Clewiston | Fl | U.S. SUGAR CORP. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
While performing maintenance on equipment, an employee's right pinky finger was caught between a belt and pulley resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
2020-09-29 | Clewiston | Fl | Valley Produce Harvesting & Hauling Co. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
On 9/29/2020, an employee was planting sugarcane when he began to feel ill. The employee was hospitalized due to heat stroke. | |||||
2020-04-07 | Clewiston | Florida | UNITED STATES SUGAR CORPORATION | Ankle(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was cleaning tandems with a hot water hose. While cleaning his left boot with the hot water, he sustained second and third degree burns on the left ankle. | |||||
2020-02-17 | Clewiston | Florida | United States Sugar Corporation | Pelvis | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
An employee was driving a tractor up a trailer ramp when the tractor started going backwards and rolled over. The employee was struck by the tractor and suffered a pelvic fracture. | |||||
2019-07-02 | Clewiston | Florida | T & M TREES INC | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee was unloading a tree (approximately 1,500 lbs.) from a truck when the tree fell on top of him. He was hospitalized with rib fractures. | |||||
2019-06-04 | Clewiston | Florida | C & B FARMS, INC. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was working outside at a vegetable farm, pulling plastic off vegetables. The employee lost consciousness due to heat-related illness. | |||||
2018-02-13 | Clewiston | Florida | ARDAMAN & ASSOCIATES, INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
An employee was drilling while conducting a SPT sampling and lacerated his thumb while covering a pinhole leak on the equipment. | |||||
2017-07-13 | Clewiston | Florida | ZEP CONSTRUCTION, INC. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to electricity |
Two employees were using a crane to load beams when a possible arc flash occurred. Both employees suffered an electrical shock. | |||||
2017-05-05 | Clewiston | Florida | Southern Gardens Citrus Processing | Upper and lower limb(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was cleaning a C-line brush washer while standing on a platform when she fell from the platform, injuring her foot and wrist. | |||||
2016-03-07 | Clewiston | Florida | U.S. SUGAR CORP. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was installing lift straps when he slipped and his hand entered the bearing point of a mill and bearing roll. His left thumb broke. | |||||
2016-02-25 | Clewiston | Florida | UNITED STATES SUGAR CORPORATION | Hand(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
As he was tightening a bolt on a piece of equipment, an employee's left hand was caught and fractured between a piece of metal slat and a sprocket. | |||||
2015-12-19 | Clewiston | Florida | Fiberstar Inc. | Foot(feet) and leg(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
The employee was walking in front of the CIP discharge when it discharged hot, caustic water. The flow knocked her to the ground. She sustained burns to the left side of her thigh, foot, and lower leg. | |||||
2015-11-10 | Clewiston | Florida | U.S. SUGAR CORP. | Leg(s) | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
An employee had been burning sugar cane. An ember blew into the bed of the employee's pick-up truck and ignited a safety gas can. The employee's left leg was burned. | |||||
2015-01-08 | Clewiston | Florida | UNITED STATES SUGAR CORPORATION | Foot (feet) | Pedestrian struck by rail vehicle-transportation incident |
On or about 1/8/15 at 12:10 a.m., an employee was working between two boxcars located on a private railroad when the cars began to move. The employee tried to get out from between the cars when one of the cars pinched his left foot, resulting in fractures. |