Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-02-17 | Kenner | La | Barriere Construction Co. LLC | Multiple face locations | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was cutting an iron waterline pipe with a chop saw. The saw kicked back and struck the employee, lacerating the employee's face and neck and fracturing the jaw and teeth. | |||||
2021-01-18 | Kenner | La | Pellerin Milnor Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was using a pry bar to adjust a dryer basket in a fixture. The employee's left ring finger was caught between the fixture and the basket, and the fingertip was amputated. | |||||
2020-04-09 | Kenner | Louisiana | Next Solar Energy Tech, Inc | BODY SYSTEMS | Direct exposure to electricity |
An employee was shocked while working on equipment. | |||||
2019-09-23 | Kenner | Louisiana | Gootee Construction | Lower leg(s) | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
An employee was operating a scissor lift from the ground using handheld controls. The lift turned and its right wheel struck the employee, breaking the tibia and another leg bone. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-06-25 | Kenner | Louisiana | The TJX Companies, Inc. | Leg(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was recovering items in the men's department after the store was closing when she slipped on water on the floor, fell and fractured her right leg. | |||||
2019-02-14 | Kenner | Louisiana | Jackson Truck & Trailer Repair of LA., Inc. | Hand(s) | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
An employee had been using paint thinner to clean auto body parts. When he went outside to smoke, paint thinner on his gloves ignited and burned his hands. | |||||
2018-07-16 | Kenner | Louisiana | TULANE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL | Thigh(s) | Fall, slip, trip |
On July 16, 2018, an employee was traveling to the airport on a business trip. The employee fell at the airport, suffering a broken right femur, and was hospitalized. | |||||
2017-09-21 | Kenner | Louisiana | ResCare | Head and trunk | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
An employee was using a portable toilet when a nearby bulldozer reversed and struck him, injuring his head, chest, and pelvis. | |||||
2016-09-23 | Kenner | Louisiana | DP Developers, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Stings and venomous bites |
An employee was loading tools into the trailer when he was bitten by an insect. He was later hospitalized when he had an adverse reaction to the bite. | |||||
2016-03-22 | Kenner | Louisiana | PELLERIN MILNOR CORPORATION | Fingertip(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by other person |
An employee was showing a second employee how to install a drive shaft onto a rotor plate. The drive shaft had to be aligned and seated onto the rotor plate by using a leather mallet and striking the drive shaft repeatedly. While attempting to stabilize the drive shaft, the second employee placed his index finger on the end of the shaft. The first employee struck the second employee's finger against the drive shaft with the leather mallet, crushing his left index finger, which had to be surgical | |||||
2016-03-03 | Kenner | Louisiana | Woodward Design + Build | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Struck by falling part of powered vehicle still attached |
An employee was checking on a mini-excavator being worked on by a subcontractor. As he walked around the mini excavator, a hydraulic failure caused the extended boom to drop and strike the employee in the upper back area, cracking vertebrae. | |||||
2016-01-30 | Kenner | Louisiana | Party City | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was working from a ladder to put a box on top of a fixture. He fell off of the ladder to the ground, where a customer found him laying unconscious. He injured his head. | |||||
2015-06-30 | Kenner | Louisiana | Veolia Water North America | Nonclassifiable | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
A new employee was observing an experienced employee on how to connect a yard mule to a dump trailer. The fifth wheel on the yard mule and the king pin on the trailer did not engage. The driver did not realize that they did not engage and the injured employee was caught between the cab and the trailer. The injured employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2015-05-18 | Kenner | Louisiana | SPX Transformer Solutions, Inc. | Brain | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was chasing down fuel lines in order to decommission an oil cleaning rig. As he was doing so, he began stepping backwards toward an open side panel which had been used to access the trailer. He stepped out of the trailer and fell backwards approximately 49 inches onto the shop floor. He suffered severe head injuries and was hospitalized. | |||||
2015-05-18 | Kenner | Louisiana | Global Source` | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
An employee fell out the side of an 18 wheeler box trailer and hit his head on the concrete floor. |