Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-09-22 | Loxahatchee | Fl | Altman Plants | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by object or equipment |
An employee was struck in the chest with a bar. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2021-09-13 | Loxahatchee | Fl | Odum's Sod | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee had been removing existing sod and installing new sod. He began feeling ill and suffered heat exhaustion. | |||||
2021-08-09 | Loxahatchee | Fl | HCA Palms West Hospital | Multiple body parts | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee was weighing linen carts on a scale on a loading dock. She lost her footing while walking backward and fell to the concrete floor, landing on both hands and suffering fractures to both wrists and a lower spine injury. She was hospitalized, undergoing surgery. | |||||
2020-04-20 | Loxahatchee | Florida | EC Source | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was climbing down the steps of a bucket truck when he placed his hand on the open tool box and a co-worker closed the tool box lid on his hand. As a result, his right index finger was amputated to the first knuckle. | |||||
2018-09-03 | Loxahatchee | Florida | PALMS WEST HOSPITAL | Brain | Fall on same level due to slipping |
While entering a patient's room, an employee slipped on a wet floor mat and fell, striking their face on a bed rail and the back of their head on the floor. | |||||
2017-09-18 | Loxahatchee | Florida | DAVIS H. ELLIOT CONSTRUCTION COMPANY | Foot (feet) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was descending from a power pole when he fell, injuring his back and breaking his right foot. His safety belts were removed at the time of the incident. | |||||
2015-09-16 | Loxahatchee | Florida | Irby Construction Company | Lower leg(s) | Other jump to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was standing on the bed of a flatbed truck untying the rigging used to secure a utility pole. When he finished, the employee jumped off the bed of the truck and fractured his tibia. | |||||
2015-09-02 | Loxahatchee | Florida | IRBY CONSTRUCTION COMPANY | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Overexertion involving outside sources |
While moving a pole with a bar, an employee experienced back pain. | |||||
2015-05-11 | Loxahatchee | Florida | AQUATIC VEGETATION | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by object or equipment |
An employee dismounted an airboat to retrieve his lunch box. When he attempted to climb back onto the airboat, he was struck by the fan blade. He sustained broken ribs and a collapsed lung. |