Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-04-20 | Empire | La | Daybrook Fisheries, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
Two employees were attempting to remove a metal box from the outside of a building. On employee cut the top two bolts holding the box to the building, so that the bottom two box could act as a fulcrum as the box fell. The other employee was walking the box down, hand over hand, when it fell. Its top left corner struck him in the head, neck, and right shoulder, and he was briefly pinned under the box. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2020-02-10 | Empire | Louisiana | Westbank Fishing, LLC | Forearm(s) | Machinery or equipment incident on water vehicle |
An employee was working as a net mender, tasked with positioning the nets for fishing operations. While the employee was wrapping a rope around the cathead to position the net, his left hand was caught in the cathead and he was wrapped around the cathead several times. The employee was hospitalized with a lacerated left forearm. | |||||
2019-05-16 | Empire | Louisiana | Daybrook Fisheries, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee turned on a process pump inside a fish processing plant. The pump cap housing blew off causing hot water to forcibly flow out of the pump and strike the employee in multiple areas on the front of his body. As the employee turned away from the hot water, he was struck in multiple areas on the back of his body and knocked to the ground momentarily. Hot water also struck a second employee on the back while running away from the area. | |||||
2017-01-30 | Empire | Colorado | Southwest Energy, LLC | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was walking across the yard when he slipped on ice/snow and fell to the ground. The employee broke his left hip and was hospitalized. |