Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-06-30 | Gramercy | Louisiana | Associated Terminals, LLC | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Machinery or equipment incident on water vehicle |
An employee was rigging a piece of angle iron on a dock to an excavator bucket on a barge. The excavator was swaying due to being on the barge, causing the bucket to go up and down on the dock. The bucket came down and struck the employee on top of his foot, resulting in a partial amputation of his big toe. | |||||
2020-04-02 | Gramercy | Louisiana | Louisiana Sugar Refining, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was operating package filling equipment when he attempted to loosen clumped sugar in the equipment piping and injured his right hand. He was hospitalized with fractures to four fingers on his right hand. | |||||
2017-03-17 | Gramercy | Louisiana | Waste Management of South Louisiana | Brain | Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, roadway |
An employee was standing on the riding step of the refuse truck. The truck started to roll and the employee fell off the step striking his head on the pavement. He was hospitalized for a concussion. | |||||
2016-04-07 | Gramercy | Louisiana | Turner Industries Group, L.L.C. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was inspecting a rotary valve airlock system. He opened a hatch to see if it was plugged and attempted to move some plugged material. He contacted the internal rotating parts, partially amputating three left-hand fingers. | |||||
2016-02-03 | Gramercy | Louisiana | OAKLEY, INC., BRUCE | Lower leg(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was just finishing up loading a barge. The employee was on the barge to unhook the back cable attached to the tug at the back of the barge. The employee was walking toward the front of the barge and the cable line sprang up to chest height. He continued to walk to the front of the barge to get out of the cable's way. When he was toward the front corner, he swung his leg around and over the timberhead. Just as his leg was going over the cable, the cable pinned his leg between the cab |