| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-26 | West Homestead | Pa | Advance Auto Parts | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over self |
| An employee tripped and fell while walking through an aisle, landing on the floor and suffering a broken hip. The employee was hospitalized and underwent surgery. | |||||
| 2021-04-28 | Homestead | Fl | U. Sl Postal Serivice | Hand(s) | Struck by rolling object or equipment being pushed by injured worker |
| An employee was pulling a hamper to the loading dock when his right hand was caught between the metal railing and the hamper, resulting in injuries that required hospitalization. | |||||
| 2021-02-22 | Homestead | Fl | AT&T Services, Inc. | Hip(s) | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment less than 6 feet |
| An employee was ascending a ladder on a wooden pole. The pole snapped from the base, causing the employee to fall 3 ft., resulting in a fractured hip and wrist. | |||||
| 2021-02-18 | Homestead | Fl | Miami Transformers Corp | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee's fingers became caught between a coil machine cutter stand and metal, resulting in fractures to his fingers. | |||||
| 2020-01-21 | Homestead | Florida | BRIGHTVIEW LANDSCAPE SERVICES, INC. | Fingertip(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was operating a stand-on mower when suddenly his left index finger was crushed between the handle of the mower and a tree, cutting his fingertip. He was hospitalized and had surgery. | |||||
| 2019-09-09 | Homestead | Florida | Billund Aquaculture US Corp | Arm(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| An employee was testing a 16-inch pipe with a test ball when the test ball flew out of the pipe causing the employee to fly back, landing on his right arm. The employee was hospitalized with a broken arm. | |||||
| 2019-08-20 | Homestead | Florida | Billund Aquaculture US Corp | Head | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee stepped onto an unsupported cantilevered platform. The platform gave way and the employee fell approximately 7 to 8 feet into a water retention pit below, suffering a head laceration. | |||||
| 2019-08-13 | Homestead | Florida | Billund Aquaculture US Corp | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| While doing housekeeping in the early morning, an employee tripped on an HDPE pipe and fell, breaking his ankle. | |||||
| 2019-02-08 | Homestead | Florida | PLANT LIFE FARMS, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Other animal bites, nonvenomous |
| An employee was walking from his car to the nursery entrance and was bitten by a stray dog resulting in the loss of a thumb tip. | |||||
| 2018-09-24 | Homestead | Florida | ABC Supply Co., Inc. | Multiple body parts | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment |
| An employee was walking over a portable dock ramp when it tipped over. He fell and the ramp landed on him, breaking his hand, right foot/ankle, jaw, and ribs and lacerating his face. | |||||
| 2018-09-21 | Homestead | Florida | Michaels Stores, Inc. | Wrist(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| On 09/21/2018, an employee was on a step stool attempting to remove merchandise from a store shelf when she fell from the step stool and fractured her wrist, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2018-06-01 | Homestead | Florida | Florida Power & Light | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was ascending a three-step stairway looking for leaks when the employee's foot became tangled on the first step and the employee fell down 6 inches, breaking a tibia. | |||||
| 2017-10-07 | Homestead | Florida | AREVA INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was cleaning reactor stud holes using a hand-held drill with a wire brush attachment when the drill locked up in the hole. As he was reversing the drill, his gloved hand became wrapped around the brush attachment, lacerating and dislocating his left middle finger. | |||||
| 2017-07-31 | West Homestead | Pennsylvania | WHEMCO, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| Two employees were working in a man lift basket about 12 to 13 feet off the ground. They were using an overhead hoist to reposition a piece of equipment they were working on in the vertical boring mill. As the overhead hoist was being lowered, the limit switch plate of the hoist came in contact with an employee's left hand, which was resting on the man lift railing. The injured employee sustained the amputation of the left pinky fingertip. | |||||
| 2017-07-13 | Homestead | Pennsylvania | WHEMCO-Steel Castings, Inc. | Hand(s) | Direct exposure to electricity |
| An employee was repairing an electrical circuit in a crane cab when an electrical current passed through the employee's right hand, causing arc flash burns. | |||||
| 2017-06-27 | Homestead | Florida | RCMA South Dade Child Development Center | Brain | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was walking when she tripped and fell backwards over a bench, striking the back of her head against the concrete floor. | |||||
| 2017-06-27 | Homestead | Florida | BROOKS TROPICALS, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| After marking holes in a field, an employee became dizzy, fainted, and vomited due to the heat. He suffered from dehydration and an acute kidney injury. | |||||
| 2017-03-18 | Homestead | Florida | DAY AND ZIMMERMANN, INCORPORATED | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was conducting a safety inspection of the room and fell from a fixed access ladder after receiving an arc flash burn to his forearm. The employee suffered a broken ankle from the fall off the ladder. | |||||
| 2017-01-03 | Homestead | Florida | Everglades National Park | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was hospitalized when he fell from a step ladder fracturing a shoulder and a rib. | |||||
| 2016-10-13 | Homestead | Florida | Erian General Construction | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee who had just climbed onto a roof approximately 9 feet 2 inches in height after his lunch break was in the process of securing his fall protection when he slipped and fell off the roof fracturing the left ankle. | |||||
| 2016-09-25 | Homestead | Florida | Winn-Dixie | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| On or about 9/25/2016, an employee was cutting a squash with a manual vegetable slicer when the slicer amputated part of his nail and his right middle fingertip. | |||||
| 2016-07-14 | Homestead | Florida | BROOKS TROPICALS, LLC | Arm(s) | Struck by object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was placing a sticker on a pallet when he was hit by the arm of the pallet wrapping machine. His arm was broken. | |||||
| 2016-06-06 | Homestead | Florida | MasTec Advance Technologies | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was setting up an extension ladder when the flank section of the ladder slid down and lacerated his left thumb, requiring hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
| 2016-05-05 | Homestead | Florida | AUTO ZONE | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker |
| The employee was carrying a brake rotor. The brake rotor fell on his toe resulting in a laceration and fracture. | |||||
| 2015-12-09 | Homestead | Florida | Winn Dixie Stores, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| On December 9, 2015, at about 10:28 a.m., an employee was cutting pig's feet on a meat saw when the blade amputated his left index finger above the first knuckle. He had surgery. | |||||