| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-20 | Lake City | Fl | New Millennium Building Systems, LLC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| On October 20, 2021, an employee had just changed a roll former machine from one metal size to another and was setting up the machine for a new production order. He was reaching to retrieve a metal piece coming out of the machine when the chain and sprocket that drove the kicker wheel caught his right glove. His ring finger was amputated at the first knuckle, and he was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-09-23 | Lake City | Fl | Champion Home Builders, Inc. | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was rolling out underlayment paper on the roof of a mobile home when he fell to the ground. The employee broke both ankles and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-09-22 | Lake City | Fl | Land O'Lakes | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| On September 22, 2021, the injured employee was guiding a trainee at the bin house to make sure there was no feed in the bin. They both walked on a catwalk towards a fixed ladder to access the head house. While transitioning onto the ladder, the injured employee lost balance and fell about 7 feet to the floor with his left leg landing on a bin cap. He was hospitalized with a compound fracture to the lower left leg. | |||||
| 2021-09-21 | Lake City | Fl | Townhomes, LLC | Brain | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| On September 21, 2021, an employee had finished cleaning the floor and cabinets inside a newly manufactured home. She then started descending a distance of 4 feet from the manufactured home floor to the production floor using a 6-foot A-frame ladder. She fell and hit her head on the production floor. She was found unconscious with bleeding from the head. She was hospitalized with a head injury. | |||||
| 2021-06-02 | Lake City | Fl | New Millennium Building Systems | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was driving home when he began to suffer nausea and cramps in the fingers, arms, and chest. After stopping his truck and leaving it, he lost consciousness. He was hospitalized, suffering from a possible heat illness/injury. | |||||
| 2021-04-21 | Lake City | Fl | Townhomes, LLC | Hand(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| On April 21, 2021, an employee was using a paint gun. As he tried to tighten or clear the nozzle, the gun sprayed his right hand, lacerating it. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2020-09-14 | Salt Lake City | Ut | United States Postal Service | Eye(s) | Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was delivering mail when a low hanging branch struck his left eye. The eye injury required surgery. | |||||
| 2020-07-24 | Lake City | Florida | K3 Directional Drilling, Inc. | Forearm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was using steel tongs to attach a 15-foot metal rod to the existing drill rod string. The drill rod began rotating and the employee was stuck by the pipe tongs causing a left forearm fracture. | |||||
| 2019-06-06 | Lake City | Florida | CVS Health | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping |
| An employee tripped and fell as she moved from a parking lot onto a sidewalk. She suffered a broken hip and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-05-29 | Lake City | Georgia | Kabobs Acquisition LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| While cleaning a food processing machine, an employee suffered a severe laceration to the left ring finger. | |||||
| 2019-05-21 | Salt Lake City | Utah | Defense Contract Management Agency | Knee(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was leaving the facility when the employee slipped and fell on a wet floor, injuring the left knee. | |||||
| 2019-04-24 | Salt Lake City | Utah | Hill Air Force Base | Arm(s) | Fall on same level while climbing stairs, steps, or curbs |
| An employee was walking to a conference and crossing the street when the employee tripped on a curb and fell to the concrete, breaking the left arm. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-03-14 | Lake City | Florida | O'Neal Roofing Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee's hand was caught in a metal press brake, resulting in amputations to his left middle and ring fingers. | |||||
| 2018-09-18 | Lake City | Florida | U.S. Cold Storage | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was operating a forklift when he turned into a cross aisle that went into a freezer and hit an upright rack. His left foot was pinned between the forklift and the rack, breaking three toes and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2018-07-02 | Lake City | Florida | Nettles Beef Processing, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was brushing off excess meat from a grinder when the spiral knife blade amputated her right pointer finger above the first knuckle. The grinder was in operation at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2018-05-04 | Lake City | Florida | Townhomes, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was grabbing onto a crane track while standing on a scaffold when the wheel moved and amputated his left pinky and ring fingers. | |||||
| 2018-05-01 | Lake City | Florida | Ellis Crane Works, Inc. | Brain | Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway |
| An employee climbed on the back of a pickup truck bed after he finished picking up signs off the side of the road. The driver was driving the pickup truck along the interstate shoulder going eastbound toward the jobsite when the employee fell off the vehicle, striking his head on the ground and requiring hospitalization. He was wearing a hard hat when he fell. | |||||
| 2018-04-05 | Lake City | Florida | Champion Home Builders, Inc. | Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) | Fall through surface or existing opening 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was securing the roof of a manufactured home from the rear of a mobile scaffold when the scaffold moved, causing him to lose his balance as he was walking toward the catwalk. He then fell 9 feet to the ground through a gap between the mobile scaffold and the catwalk, fracturing his collarbone and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2018-02-14 | Lake City | Florida | Nature's Source Products, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was clearing a jammed piece of wood from the 4-way splitter by pushing the jammed wood with another piece of wood. When the jammed wood was pushed free the 4-way splitter ram released and came forward striking and amputating the employee's left thumb at the knuckle. | |||||
| 2017-09-22 | Lake City | Florida | Guardian Fuel Technologies, LLC. | Hand(s) | Fire |
| An employee was servicing gas pump equipment at a gas station when a fire occurred, burning both of his hands. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-09-04 | Lake City | Florida | HAECO Americas Line Services, LLC | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was attempting to exit a facility through a turnstile when her knee gave way. She then twisted and fractured her ankle. | |||||
| 2017-09-04 | Lake City | Florida | The Move Connection, LLC | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee fell from an extension ladder while inspecting a box truck, suffering two vertebrae fractures, fractured ribs, and a forehead laceration. | |||||
| 2017-08-22 | Salt Lake City | Utah | U.S. Postal Service | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee climbed up four stairs to a landing, handed a survey to an employee, turned around to go back down, lost his footing, and fell down the four stairs, breaking his right ankle and requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2017-07-02 | Lake City | Florida | Target Corporation | Leg(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was operating an upright pallet rider and was coming around the corner to pick up a label for a shipment when the pallet rider accelerated. His right leg was then pinned and broken between a shelf's upright support and the pallet rider. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-05-29 | Salt Lake City | Utah | VA Salt Lake City Healthcare System | Brain | Fall on same level due to tripping on uneven surface |
| An employee was unloading a truck to deliver laundry to a hospital. The tommy gate on the truck he was unloading was approximately 2 inches above the dock. He tripped over the edge of the gate and hit his head against a linen cart. | |||||
| 2017-01-09 | Lake City | Florida | Arby's Restaurant Group (Store# 5984) | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet |
| An employee was changing letters on a reader board while standing on an 18-foot extension ladder when he fell to the grassy ground below and landed on his back. He bruised his spinal cord and required hospitalization. | |||||
| 2016-09-28 | Lake City | Florida | HAECO Americas Line Services, LLC | Head and trunk | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was performing maintenance on the underside of an airplane wing and was standing on a pump stand. When finished, he turned and fell from the stand onto the chain guards. The chain guard broke at the attachment to the stand and the employee fell approximately 7 feet to a concrete floor. He sustained an open gash head injury, fractured ribs, and fractured vertebrae. | |||||
| 2016-08-08 | Salt Lake City | Utah | U.S. POSTAL SERVICE | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee felt dizzy and lightheaded while delivering mail. The employee was hospitalized due to heat stress and kidney failure. | |||||
| 2016-07-19 | Lake City | Florida | Universal Truckload, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was standing on the flatbed trailer while securing the freight when he lost his footing and fell off of the trailer. His legs were tangled in the airline causing him to turn on the descent and strike his head on the ground. He was hospitalized for treatment of contusions to his head, right arm and wrist. | |||||
| 2016-05-26 | Lake City | Florida | Townhomes, LLC | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was cleaning the inside of a finished mobile home. She was using a two-step stool to get off the home when the stool moved, resulting in a broken left ankle. She was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2016-05-17 | Lake City | Florida | Champion Home Builders, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cutting a shim on the quarter-inch flat stock of the table saw when the saw became jammed. While he was attempting to unjam the saw, his right index finger was amputated at the first knuckle, his middle finger was amputated at the second knuckle, and his ring finger was lacerated. | |||||
| 2016-04-27 | Lake City | Florida | Avalon Healthcare Center | Hip(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee ran to retrieve an at-risk patient as he was leaving the premises. She fell down on the floor, bled from her mouth, and broke her right hip. She was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2016-02-18 | Salt Lake City | Utah | Halverson Company | Leg(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee went into the silo to make adjustments on the grain sweep. A coworker did not know that the employee was in the silo and turned on the grain sweep, which lacerated the employee's leg. | |||||
| 2015-11-23 | Salt Lake City | Utah | US Postal Service | Forearm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| A maintenance employee was investigating a suspected defective roller on a conveyor belt. The machine must be running to hear defective rollers. His hand was pulled into the machine, and the rollers rolled up onto his forearm. He suffered compound fractures to his radius and ulna and required surgery. | |||||
| 2015-09-21 | Lake City | Florida | Ace Staffing Unlimited, Inc. | Cheek(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was adjusting a steel pipe from a 6-foot ladder. The anchor came off, causing him to fall 6 feet down to the floor and to land on the right side of his face. The area near his right eye was bruised, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2015-08-25 | Salt Lake City | Utah | U.S. POSTAL SERVICE | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| On August 25, 2015 an employee was admitted to the hospital due to heat stroke. | |||||
| 2015-05-07 | Lake City | Florida | Rountree-Moore Motors, LLLP | Nonclassifiable | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee was putting Brake-R chemical on a shelf above his head. The chemical fell from the shelf and the lid came off. Some of the product splashed him, causing chemical burns. | |||||
| 2015-04-11 | Lake City | Florida | HUNTER PANELS, LLC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was using a bevel saw to cut a panel when his right hand hit the saw's blade, resulting in the amputation of his right middle and ring fingers. | |||||
| 2015-04-05 | Lake City | Pennsylvania | Sterling Technologies, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee entered the rotational molding unit/oven to retrieve a pin that fell out of a mold. The employee was struck by rotating fan blades. The employee was hospitalized from the injuries. | |||||