Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-07-22 | Newberry | Fl | Swamp Heating and Air LLC | Coccygeal region | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was walking on the main wooden beam inside the attic of a newly built one-story house. When he stepped onto the cross member beam, it gave way. He lost his balance, hit an extension ladder, and fell 10 feet to the concrete floor in the garage. He suffered a broken tailbone and was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-09-09 | Newberry | Florida | Hogan Dedicated Service, LLC. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was unloading products from inside a truck trailer when he passed out in part due to the heat and hit his head on the ground. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2016-10-19 | Newberry | Florida | Burgess and Dudley, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Entangled in other object or equipment |
An employee was feeding wire to a wire stripping machine when he noticed that the wire had a loop in it. He reached to get the loop out and while his left thumb was in the loop the machine tightened the loop resulting in the amputation of the tip of his left thumb. | |||||
2016-06-25 | Newberry | Florida | Publix Supermarkets, Inc. (Store# 690) ) | Elbow(s) | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
An employee had finished prepping bread for baking and turned the oven on, but the burner did not ignite. When he hit the button again to ignite the burner, the gas that was in the oven combusted causing a flame to reach the door of the oven. The flame burned the employee's right elbow, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2015-10-12 | Newberry | Florida | Lewis Tree Services, Inc. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee got his right hand caught in the brush that was feeding into the chipper. His right hand went into the feed wheel and was amputated above the wrist. | |||||
2015-02-16 | Newberry | Florida | O'STEEN BROTHERS, INC. | Head | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
The worker fell backwards towards the slump rack stairs while washing his concrete truck and sustained a laceration to the back of his head. |