Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-09-10 | Eglin Afb | Fl | The Threat Management Group, LLC | Hand(s) and finger(s) | Explosion, n.e.c. |
The injured employee was waiting on stand-by while range operations were ongoing. The employee got out of a vehicle and walked over to an unexploded ordnance (UXO) and picked it up. The UXO exploded resulting in an amputation to the left hand and multiple amputations to fingers on the right hand. | |||||
2021-04-01 | Eglin Afb | Fl | Acousti Engineering Company of Florida | Ankle(s) | Fall through surface or existing opening less than 6 feet |
An employee was on a 5 ft. tall scaffold when the scaffold board gave way, causing the employee to fall through to the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a broken right ankle. | |||||
2019-07-30 | Eglin Afb | Florida | Department of the Air Force | Hand(s) | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
On July 30, 2019, a maintenance technician was standing on an 18-foot step stand, preparing to replace a light ballast. He was shocked while working with the 277-volt circuit and fell onto the stand. He lost consciousness and suffered burns and bruises to the hands, and was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-03-11 | Eglin Afb | Florida | Musgrove Construction, LLC. | Foot (feet) | Struck by object or equipment rolling freely |
An employee was walking toward a 3-foot-high pile of new power poles. The pile shifted and a pole rolled up onto the employee's left foot, breaking bones. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-02-18 | Eglin Afb | Florida | Reliant Test and Technology | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
An electronic maintenance technician noticed that part of the tarp covering a radar dome had come off. He was standing on the bed of his pickup truck, pulling a rope attached to the tarp, when he fell off and landed on his back on the asphalt pavement. He suffered a skull fracture and brain hemorrhaging and was hospitalized. | |||||
2017-02-17 | Eglin Afb | Florida | L3 Technologies, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was standing on the back of a lavatory service truck while he was servicing water into the system. As he was connecting a dump hose onto the aircraft, he stumbled, fell 61 inches, and hit his head on the concrete floor. He sustained a contusion on his head, fractured four ribs, and fractured his left thumb, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2016-09-14 | Eglin Afb | Florida | InDyne, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Bites and stings |
An employee was going to install concrete forms on the range in the air force base. While he was putting a piece of plastic into the concrete form, his right-hand middle finger was bitten by a snake. He was hospitalized overnight. | |||||
2015-09-24 | Eglin Afb | Florida | InDyne, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was moving a pole containing a security camera downward to adjust the camera. The top portion of his right middle finger got caught and was amputated between the top and lower portion of the pole's hinge. | |||||
2015-02-28 | Eglin Afb | Florida | Defense Commissary Agency(DeCA) | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
Employee was using a band saw in the commissary's butcher shop area to process meat for resale when he amputated the tip of his left thumb. |