| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-04-03 | Key Largo | Florida | BRIGHTVIEW TREE CARE SERVICES, INC. | Multiple arm locations | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| While an employee was using a chainsaw to trim a coconut tree, the chainsaw kicked back causing lacerations to the left forearm and bicep. | |||||
| 2018-09-11 | Key Largo | Florida | Cotton Commercial USA, Inc. | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee fell from a third floor while conducting roofing work, fracturing a leg. | |||||
| 2018-06-01 | Key Largo | Florida | Dixie Landscape Company, Inc. | Upper and lower limb(s) | Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| An employee was on the ground guiding a coconut tree that was suspended by a piece of equipment to position it in a hole. The palm frond touched an overhead powerline while the employee was touching the root and he received an electrical shock, burning his hands and the bottom of his feet. | |||||
| 2017-08-02 | Key Largo | Florida | KLI SHELL LUMBER & HARDWARE, LLC | Multiple trunk locations | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was unloading palletized loads of residential doors from the back of a truck when the employee was blown off the truck to the asphalt, suffering back, rib, tailbone, and kidney injuries that required hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-05-26 | Key Largo | Florida | THE HVAC STORE, INC. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet |
| An employee was on an extension ladder trying to access the roof when he slipped and fell approximately 20 feet to the ground below, fracturing three vertebrae, his nose, his skull, and a wrist. | |||||
| 2016-07-21 | Key Largo | Florida | RAPID ROOFING, INC. | Thigh(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee fell from a ladder and fractured their femur. | |||||
| 2016-07-18 | Key Largo | Florida | R. L. S. ENTERPRISES, INC. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee on a construction site was standing while talking and suddenly passed out possibly due to heat, hitting their head on the wall and falling to the floor. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2015-10-15 | Key Largo | Florida | Hampton Inn Key Largo | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was trimming tree branches from a ladder, lost his balance, and fell approximately 8 feet to the ground, fracturing his right-side ribs. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2015-01-07 | Key Largo | Florida | The Red Land Company | Hip(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| On or about 1/7/2015 at 12:00 PM, employee working on a construction site was using a metal rebar to repair a broken hinge on another company's truck that was on site delivering soil material. Employee was standing at ground level while attempting to bend the rebar. The metal rebar broke, resulting in the employee falling to the ground. Employee sustained fractures to his right hip; he was hospitalized and had emergency surgery. | |||||