Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2019-06-28 | Fairhope | Alabama | Gulf Health Hospitals | Ankle(s) | Stepped on object |
An employee was assisting in patient care when the employee stepped on a medical line attached to a piece of equipment, causing the equipment to strike and fracture the employee's left ankle. | |||||
2019-06-18 | Fairhope | Alabama | Aero-mark MRO, LLC | Hand(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
An employee was using new retraction tool to disassemble an air cycle machine unit. In the process of removing the retaining nut, the retraction tool's thread shaft adapter broke, causing a bubble or burst of hydraulic fluid to rupture at up to approximately 6,000 psi. The fluid cut/lacerated the employee's left hand between the middle and forefingers. He was hospitalized and required surgery. | |||||
2018-09-19 | Fairhope | Alabama | DENNIS E. CAMPBELL CONSTRUCTION, INC. | Neck and back | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee fell approximately 9 feet from a basement wall to the concrete floor while installing anchor bolts due to possible heat exhaustion, suffering a broken neck and spinal injuries. | |||||
2018-05-24 | Fairhope | Alabama | Red Tide, LLC | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
An employee was at a residential house cleaning windows. He climbed a ladder onto a wet metal roof with tools in hand to clean a second story window. He then slipped and fell to the ground, breaking his right tibia and fibula. | |||||
2017-01-01 | Fairhope | Alabama | Fairhope Health and Rehab, LLC | Hip(s) | Fall on same level |
An employee was at the nurse's desk, turned, and fell to the tile floor fracturing the left hip. |