Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2019-07-08 | Hahnville | Louisiana | James Marine, INC. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was on the back of a flatbed truck, cutting with a torch. The employee lost consciousness due to heat/dehydration and was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-04-03 | Hahnville | Louisiana | Jacobs Field Services | Foot (feet) | Contact with objects and equipment |
An employee had been attaching barricade tape when their right foot was fractured by a crane's outrigger. | |||||
2016-10-11 | Hahnville | Louisiana | Galata Chemicals, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
While servicing a valve, an employee sent a solenoid to the valve to open it and see if the rubber seat was damaged. The solenoid coil disconnected, which interrupted the solenoid signal and caused the valve to close on the employee's thumb. The thumb had to be surgically amputated. | |||||
2016-03-14 | Hahnville | Louisiana | CB & I | Forearm(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was operating a sand blaster when the sand blaster whip hose fell. The blast media penetrated the employee's sand blast suit and lacerated the employee's forearm, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2015-11-08 | Hahnville | Louisiana | Jacobs Seal Services North America, Inc. | Forearm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee operating a forklift tried to steady something on the opposite side of the forklift with his arm. While doing so, he made contact with the controls, actuating the forklift mast in the downward direction. He broke multiple bones in his forearm and was hospitalized. | |||||
2015-09-27 | Hahnville | Louisiana | Total Safety US Inc. | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was descending a fixed ladder attached to a vessel. She slipped around the fifth rung from the bottom, breaking her ankle and requiring surgery. | |||||
2015-08-23 | Hahnville | Louisiana | SGS Petroleum Service Corp. | Foot (feet) | Nonclassifiable |
An employee riding a railcar in order to move it around a switch yard lost his balance and lacerated his foot. | |||||
2015-01-08 | Hahnville | Louisiana | Union Carbide Corporation | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level |
An employee fell from an elevated structure. |