Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-09-27 | Golden Meadow | La | Superior Shipyard and Fabrication, Inc. | Head and trunk | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment 16 to 20 feet |
While an employee was using a gangway to access a barge, the gangway collapsed and the employee fell 18 feet to the dry dock floor below. The employee suffered multiple injuries, including punctured lungs and severe head trauma. | |||||
2020-02-04 | Golden Meadow | Louisiana | Delmar Systems, Inc | Fingertip(s) | Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate |
An employee was returning to work from lunch. While talking to another employee on the other side of a closing access gate, the employee leaned against the gate before it completely stopped. His left hand was caught in the top roll bar of the gate, crushing the left fourth digit and requiring an amputation of the tip. | |||||
2019-07-19 | Golden Meadow | Louisiana | Tetra Technologies | Leg(s) | Fall onto or against object on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee was completing a fluid treatment process. The employee had just closed a 4-inch valve on a "T" manifold when he tripped and fell forward, striking the shin of his right leg against a valve handle and then landing on the ground. The employee's right leg sustained a spiral fracture requiring hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
2019-01-15 | Golden Meadow | Louisiana | Louisiana Machinery Company, LLC. | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was looking for a crescent wrench and dropped his flashlight. He reached for the falling flashlight and his hand contacted the fan blade of a running generator engine. The employee sustained an amputation to the right index fingertip and a laceration between the thumb and index finger on the right hand. | |||||
2018-05-16 | Golden Meadow | Louisiana | Gulf Coast Tanks | Skull | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was putting nuts and washers on bolts while standing on an 8-foot A-frame ladder that was in the closed position when the ladder slipped. The employee fell and struck his head on the concrete below, suffering head trauma and a skull fracture. | |||||
2016-02-22 | Golden Meadow | Louisiana | EXPERT RISER SOLUTIONS | Ankle(s) | Entangled in other object or equipment |
An employee attached a tagline on some pipe casing. When the pipe was picked up, his foot was tangled in the tagline, ultimately breaking his ankle. | |||||
2016-02-22 | Golden Meadow | Louisiana | Cameron Solutions | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was loading a filter into a casing while a coworker pushed the other end. The employee's fingers were pinched and his right-hand index and middle fingertips were amputated. | |||||
2015-07-28 | Golden Meadow | Louisiana | Superior Shipyard and Fabrication, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee passed out due to heat illness. | |||||
2015-07-08 | Golden Meadow | Louisiana | WEEKS MARINE, INC. | Fingertip(s) | Entangled in other object or equipment |
An employee was handling deck lines when his left ring fingertip got caught in a bit of the rope. There was no bone loss. |