| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-08-19 | Donaldsonville | La | COOLING TOWER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | Multiple trunk locations | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was tasked with maintenance work on top of a cooling tower. While leaving the tower, the employee lost his footing and fell to the ground, resulting in a head laceration, bruised lung, and spinal fractures. | |||||
| 2020-03-06 | Donaldsonville | Louisiana | United Rentals (North America), Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| A service technician was installing rental equipment attachments. As he was inserting a retaining ring, the equipment attachment fell and his left index finger was caught and lacerated between the ground and the attachment. He was hospitalized and had surgery on his left index finger. | |||||
| 2019-07-31 | Donaldsonville | Louisiana | TT Barge Service | Multiple body parts | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee was washing a tank barge that contained a caustic product. The product splashed on his upper left arm, then spread to his waist and lower extremities, causing second- and third-degree burns. | |||||
| 2019-05-09 | Donaldsonville | Louisiana | Turner Industries | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Struck by powered vehicle-nontransport, n.e.c. |
| Employees were preparing to unload material with a crane. When the front outriggers were extended it contacted an employee's right foot resulting in a crushing injury and great toe amputation. | |||||
| 2018-02-26 | Donaldsonville | Louisiana | Chef John Folse & Co | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was working on a horizontal mixer, evacuating the kettle into a receiving hopper. He saw a piece of cheese at the end of the hopper and attempted to remove it. His hand then became lodged within the turning auger, and his middle finger was amputated at the second knuckle. | |||||
| 2016-02-02 | Donaldsonville | Louisiana | Turner Industries | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was helping an aerial access driver load multiple mobile light plants that were off-rent onto an aerial access trailer. The employee was bent down in a squat position, attempting to adjust the tongue of a mobile light tower, when the aerial access driver put his back against the rear light plant and shoved it forward. The employee's index finger was caught between the transport trailer deck and tongue of the mobile light tower, amputating the left index fingertip. | |||||
| 2015-05-16 | Donaldsonville | Louisiana | CF Industries Nitrogen, LLC | Pelvis | Fall on same level due to tripping over self |
| An employee was using a ladder to take a nitrogen purge line off of a unit that was being decommissioned. He lost his balance on the ladder and fell backwards onto his backside. This is not the fall that caused the injury, but was a precursory fall. He gathered himself and headed back toward the control unit when he then tripped over his feet and landed on an approximately 12-inch high dike on his right side, causing the injury. He was hospitalized for a fractured pelvis. | |||||
| 2015-01-21 | Donaldsonville | Louisiana | CF Industries Nitrogen, LLC | Multiple body parts | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee was clearing a plugged ammonia transmitter when the vat line on the transmitter blew. The employee was sprayed with ammonia and suffered 2nd degree burns on approximately 5% of the body. The employee was admitted to Baton Rouge General Burn Unit for treatment. | |||||