Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2021-10-13 | Immokalee | Fl | Everglades Harvesting & Hauling, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee became hot and felt ill while working on a farm. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2020-09-23 | Immokalee | Fl | Redline Demolition Services, INC. | Lower leg(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee had been cutting concrete. After he finished, he was moving the concrete saw to a different spot when it lacerated his left shin. | |||||
2020-05-09 | Immokalee | Florida | Everglades Harvesting & Hauling, Inc. | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was on a ladder trimming a tree when he slipped and fell from the ladder, landing on his back. He was hospitalized with a back injury. | |||||
2018-05-17 | Immokalee | Florida | Eduardo Rodriguez Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
Employees were in the process of packing up to leave a jobsite. One of the employees was opening the back door of a trailer when his right hand was caught on the wire that is used to open and close the door, amputating his right middle fingertip and lacerating his right index finger. | |||||
2018-03-21 | Immokalee | Florida | HBS Florida Specialties | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
An employee was working on a piece of equipment when his glove was pulled by the chain. His right middle fingertip was then caught and amputated in the chain and sprocket. | |||||
2018-02-19 | Immokalee | Florida | Walgreens Co. | Multiple body parts | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
An employee was gathering shopping carts in the store parking lot when a customer backed out of a parking space and hit the employee. The employee suffered bruised ribs, a sprained wrist, and a bruised arm. | |||||
2016-04-19 | Immokalee | Florida | Estrada & Sons Inc. | Head and trunk | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was working from a pallet raised on the forks of a powered industrial truck when he fell approximately 6.5 feet while emptying a tray of spoiled tomatoes into a dumpster. He fractured his head and pelvis. | |||||
2016-02-27 | Immokalee | Florida | Agmart Produce Inc | Multiple body parts | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee was struck by a field truck while preparing to harvest tomatoes, injuring his left leg and lower back. | |||||
2015-08-26 | Immokalee | Florida | Brownings Nursery & Landscaping, INC. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee suffered heat stress while doing landscaping work. | |||||
2015-05-31 | Immokalee | Florida | Agmart Produce Inc | Leg(s) | Bites and stings |
An employee was cleaning the disk of a tractor used for tomato-growing operations with a rag when an insect bit him on his left leg on 5/26/2015. He was later hospitalized when the bite became infected. | |||||
2015-05-27 | Immokalee | Florida | Agmart Produce Inc | Nonclassifiable | Bites and stings |
An employee was bitten by an insect while cleaning and the employee was allergic to the insect; the employee was taken to the hospital. |