Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-09-16 | Deland | Fl | Mystic Powerboats | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
On September 16, 2021, an employee was cutting compressed foam with a table saw when the sawblade amputated the tip of his right thumb (without bone loss). | |||||
2021-06-17 | Deland | Fl | Stetson University | Brain | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment |
On June 17, 2021, a maintenance employee was on an A-frame ladder replacing a sign. The bottom legs of the ladder crumbled and the employee fell to the floor. He suffered a concussion and a muscle strain to his buttocks and lower back. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2021-04-03 | Deland | Fl | Earl W. Colvard, Inc. | Wrist(s) | Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire |
An employee was inspecting a tire/wheel assembly after he mounted it on a vehicle when the tire blew off, fracturing his left wrist. | |||||
2020-09-10 | Deland | Fl | Country Pure Foods | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
An employee was flushing the line of a machine. Her earplug fell into the bowl and when she went to retrieve it, the blades amputated her right index fingertip. | |||||
2020-09-03 | Deland | Fl | Morin Corporation | Thigh(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
An employee was using a pneumatic nail gun to build wood pallets when their left thigh was impaled by a nail. | |||||
2020-07-06 | Deland | Florida | Forterra Pipe And Precast, LLC | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
On July 6, 2020, a mobile equipment operator was operating an overhead crane inside a building and felt light-headed. The employee then took a 15-minute break and drank a bottle of water. After the break the employee was standing and fell to the ground breaking his left ankle. The employee was hospitalized for heat exhaustion. | |||||
2020-05-08 | Deland | Florida | BELK, INC. | Foot (feet) and ankle(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
On May 8, 2020, at 10:30 AM, an employee was spraying a wasp nest with wasp spray. The nest then fell to the ground and she went to step on the nest. As she did this, she rolled her ankle and fell into the side of the building. She felt pain in her ankle and was hospitalized for three broken bones and a torn ligament in her foot. | |||||
2020-01-03 | Deland | Florida | Ardmore Farms, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
On January 3, 2020, an employee was attempting to unjam a de-palletizer machine when the machine amputated the employee's left middle finger at the first knuckle. | |||||
2019-09-24 | Deland | Florida | AdventHealth DeLand | Lumbar region | Overexertion in pushing, pulling, or turning-single episode |
A nurse was helping a patient (who was sitting on a 3-foot-high-stretcher) sit up and get off the stretcher. She was pulling up on the patient when she felt a pop in her lower back. She was hospitalized, with back pain radiating to her right leg. | |||||
2019-02-01 | Deland | Florida | Fisher Scientific Company | Fingertip(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
An employee was reattaching a trailer hitch. The trailer dropped and crushed his hand resulting in the amputation to the knuckle of one finger and another fingertip amputation. | |||||
2019-01-17 | Deland | Florida | F & S Cabinets, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was cutting laminate with a table saw when the blade cut his index, middle, and ring fingers on his left hand. His ring finger was completely amputated. | |||||
2018-08-28 | Deland | Florida | EYM Diner of Florida, LLC. | Multiple body parts | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
An employee was conducting a safety walkthrough of the parking lot when she was struck by lighting, suffering burns to both legs, her arms, and her chest. She was hospitalized. | |||||
2018-05-16 | Deland | Florida | Hopton Roofing, Inc. | Hand(s), except finger(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was holding a piece of siding in position with his left hand so he could nail it in place. His right hand slipped while positioning the nail gun and the nail shot into his left hand, puncturing it and possibly fracturing one bone. He was hospitalized and had surgery. | |||||
2017-08-08 | Deland | Florida | Hopton Roofing, Inc. | Multiple foot (feet) locations | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was hooking up a trailer onto a truck at the job site. When the truck driver moved the truck, the trailer fell on his right foot. He suffered foot and toe lacerations that required hospitalization. | |||||
2017-07-14 | Deland | Florida | Engineered Cooling Services | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was climbing down a fixed metal ladder when he slipped and fell about 8 feet to a concrete mezzanine, breaking his tibia and injuring his shoulder ligament. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2017-06-27 | Deland | Florida | Pall Corporation | Forearm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
A temporary employee was attempting to remove a jammed filter bag from a plastic welding machine when his right forearm was caught between the machine carriage and a cross member, severely puncturing it and requiring hospitalization. The machine was running at the time of the incident. | |||||
2017-03-30 | Deland | Florida | Kingspan Insulated Panels, Inc. | Upper and lower limb(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was performing maintenance on a conveyor belt wrapping machine when his right arm became caught in the belt. He sustained compound fractures in his right arm, fractured both ankles and lacerations to his head and face. | |||||
2017-03-08 | Deland | Florida | Roofing Pioneers, LLC. | Brain | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
The injured employee was moving an anchor point to a different position to continue adding shingles when he fell 10 feet from the roof of a three-story building to the flat roof of the second floor resulting in a head injury and hospitalization. The employee's lanyard was detached from the anchor point at the time. | |||||
2017-01-04 | Deland | Florida | Performance Designs, Inc. | Skull | Nonclassifiable |
An employee was filing quality documentation records in file boxes stored on metal shelves, which are about 10 feet high. She was later found unconscious on the concrete floor to the side of the metal shelving unit, which had fallen on the floor. She was hospitalized with a head injury and fractured skull. | |||||
2016-09-21 | Deland | Florida | F & S Cabinets, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was pushing a piece of wood through a saw blade when the wood kicked back and the employee's hand slipped forward into the blade, lacerating the right pinky finger. | |||||
2016-07-06 | Deland | Florida | Melton Truck Lines Inc | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was preparing to pick up a load when the employee lost consciousness from exposure to excessive heat. | |||||
2016-05-09 | Deland | Florida | Forterra Pipe and Precast, LLC | Forearm(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
On May 9, 2016, at about 4:00PM an employee was admitted to the hospital due to a forearm laceration with a circular saw while cutting a piece of wood. On May 9, 2016, at about 4:30PM another employee was injured when a forklift struck the concrete structure the employee was working on, tilting the structure, and pinching the employee's left foot under it. The employee was admitted to the hospital due to the injury on his foot. Note to user: This record contains two separate events that w | |||||
2016-04-11 | Deland | Florida | Stetson University | Hip(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee was carrying items from her car in the parking lot towards the office when she lost her footing and fell fracturing the left hip. | |||||
2015-12-02 | Deland | Florida | S. Lee LLC | Multiple body parts | Nonclassifiable |
An employee was operating a bulldozer to conduct site preparation work. Coworkers found him unconscious on the ground near the bulldozer with neck and arm injuries. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2015-11-30 | Deland | Florida | Sentry Equipment & Erectors, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
A welder was operating a horizontal band saw. There was a hydraulic clamp for the material being cut. The employee pushed the button for the clamp and his left thumb was caught in the clamp, cutting it open. The employee was admitted to the hospital for hand surgery. | |||||
2015-10-17 | Deland | Florida | Guernsey Architectural Solutions, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
On October 17, 2015, an employee was operating a table saw to cut decorative strips of metal and cut his right thumb. He was admitted to the hospital and had surgery the next day. | |||||
2015-03-19 | Deland | Florida | Kingspan Insulated Panels, Inc. | Foot (feet) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee got his foot caught on the hose of a drill that was on a ladder. The drill fell on and lacerated the injured employee's foot. |