Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-07-01 | Deltona | Florida | WASTE PRO OF FLORIDA INC. | Shoulder(s) and arm(s) | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area |
At 7:05 a.m. on July 1, 2020, a Waste Pro employee was gathering a pile of refuse about 40 feet from a road. A vehicle swerved to avoid the employee's garbage truck, went off the road, and struck the employee. The employee suffered multiple injuries including a broken arm and a dislocated shoulder and was hospitalized. | |||||
2018-08-09 | Deltona | Florida | Bellsouth Telecommunications LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was splicing a telecommunication line on a pit when he became dizzy and nauseous due to heat-related illness, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2017-09-20 | Deltona | Florida | Southwestern Electric Power Company | Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall or jump curtailed by personal fall arrest system |
An employee was ascending a pole to make electrical repairs after a hurricane when his climbing gaff (the nail of the climbing hooks that go into the pole) struck a metal washer in the wooden pole, causing him to hit his jaw on the wooden pole. The back of his neck was then punctured by a wooden splinter on the pole. He hung about 25 feet in the air with his fall arrest system. He was hospitalized. |