| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-04-08 | Green Cove Springs | Fl | Garden Highway Foods | Leg(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was backing a stand-up electric pallet jack out of a trailer freezer. The employee's right leg was caught between the pallet jack and a pallet, causing a hairline fracture to the leg. | |||||
| 2021-04-01 | Green Cove Springs | Fl | Advanced Disposal Services Solid Waste Southeast, LLC | Leg(s) | Fall or jump from and struck by same vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway |
| On April 1, 2021, a temporary employee stepped out of the truck to pick up a residential recycling bin while the truck was moving and he slipped and fell. His left leg was run over by the truck's tire, resulting in hospitalization and the amputation of his left leg. | |||||
| 2021-03-11 | Green Cove Springs | Fl | Advanced Disposal | Face | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| On March 11, 2021, a temporary employee was on a route picking up garbage. While he was cycling the hopper, a metal pole sprung out and struck him in the face, resulting in facial fractures that required hospitalization. | |||||
| 2021-03-09 | Green Cove Springs | Fl | U.S. Lumber Group, LLC | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Struck bump, hole, rough terrain on driving surface, nonroadway |
| An employee was operating a forklift when the front tire hit a drain. This caused the lumber that the forklift was carrying to fall off, tilting the forklift forward enough to lift the back tires off the ground. The back tires then slammed back onto the ground. The employee was hospitalized for a fractured back. | |||||
| 2021-01-06 | Green Cove Springs | Fl | Custom Ecology, Inc. | Ankle(s) | Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet |
| On January 6, 2021, an employee was installing a tarp on a semi-trailer while standing on the tarp rack platform next to the trailer. As he was descending the platform, he slipped and fell between the trailer and the tarp about 12 feet to the ground. He suffered a broken left ankle and was admitted to the hospital. | |||||
| 2020-02-27 | Green Cove Springs | Florida | Artemis Holdings, LLC | Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| A machine operator and his co-worker were removing the gear boxes (weighing between 300 and 400 pounds) from the roll mill machine. His co-worker was using the forklift with a lifting strap attachment to lift a gear box off of the roll mill machine to be serviced when another, unbolted gear box got caught on one of the forks of the forklift causing it to break free and moved towards the machine operator. The machine operator moved away from the flying gear box, fell to the ground, and hit his he | |||||
| 2019-01-25 | Green Cove Springs | Florida | Deshazo, LLC. | Brain | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment 16 to 20 feet |
| An employee was on a scissor lift approximately 20 feet high when a forklift made contact with the aerial work platform causing it to tip over. The employee was hospitalized with a head injury. | |||||
| 2018-07-06 | Green Cove Springs | Florida | VAC-CON, INC. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee's right index fingertip was caught and amputated in a hose reel assembly on a new construction truck. | |||||
| 2016-09-30 | Green Cove Springs | Florida | National Gypsum Company | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was emptying trash from a trash hopper into a dumpster. As he was trying to clear cement debris inside the trash hopper (which was lifted up by a forklift), he lost his footing and fell about 6 feet from the dumpster to the concrete floor, injuring his head, clavicle, and ribs. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2016-08-11 | Green Cove Springs | Florida | Advanced Disposal Services Jacksonville, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| After loading yard waste onto a waste disposal collection truck for 2 hours, an employee became dizzy and lightheaded. The employee was hospitalized with severe dehydration and acute kidney failure due to the heat. | |||||
| 2016-05-13 | Green Cove Springs | Florida | Tape Technologies, Inc. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was running the vinyl machine, which rewinds and cuts big rolls of vinyl into smaller rolls, when his right hand was caught between two rolls. The skin was peeled off his right hand, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2016-01-21 | Green Cove Springs | Florida | Vac-Con, Inc. | Arm(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was walking through the entrance of the main office when he slipped and fell on a placement mat that had sand built up underneath it and was loosely gripped to the floor. He was hospitalized with a broken upper right arm. | |||||
| 2015-09-03 | Green Cove Springs | Florida | Building Component Supply, Inc. | Brain | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee loaded some roof trusses onto a flatbed truck. He started to band the load when one of the roof jacks fell and hit his head, resulting in internal bleeding and hospitalization. | |||||
| 2015-09-02 | Green Cove Springs | Florida | Labor Ready | Brain | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was standing on the back of a truck waiting to collect trash when he fell off, hitting his head on the pavement. | |||||