Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-11-06 | Okeechobee | Fl | Rafael Barajas | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by other falling powered vehicle |
An employee was pulling the transmission out of an agricultural work van while the van was jacked up. Other employees tried to move the van up a few inches while the wheels were still on and the employee was underneath. When the jack was moved, the van fell onto the employee, resulting in nine fractured ribs. | |||||
2021-10-07 | Okeechobee | Fl | United Parcel Service, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee began feeling ill from dehydration while completing a delivery route. | |||||
2021-02-17 | Okeechobee | Fl | Evans Properties, Inc | Pelvis | Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet |
An employee fell through a termite-damaged roof, landing on the ground about 12 feet below. The employee suffered an injury and was hospitalized for pelvis bone repair surgery. | |||||
2020-08-14 | Okeechobee | Fl | OHL USA, Inc./Community Asphalt, Corp. | Wrist(s) | Other fall to lower level |
While loading a roller, an employee fell from a lowboy trailer to the ground and broke his wrist. | |||||
2020-03-02 | Okeechobee | Florida | Optimum Agriculture FL LLC | Head and neck | Thrown, fell, or jumped from animal being ridden |
Two employees were trying to pull a cow out of a ditch. After they got the cow out, one employee's horse got scared and started bucking. The employee fell from the horse and the rope became tangled around his neck, causing face and neck injuries. | |||||
2019-09-11 | Okeechobee | Florida | WILLIAMSON CATTLE COMPANY | Knee(s) and leg(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
An employee ran into a cabbage tree while driving a UTV, injuring his right knee and lower leg. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-07-19 | Okeechobee | Florida | BTC Builders Inc. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was on the roof setting up a ladder to reach higher elevations during siding installation operations. He fell off the roof and landed on a table 10 feet below. The employee sustained fractures to his shoulders and face. | |||||
2019-06-16 | Okeechobee | Florida | The Michaels Companies | Upper and lower limb(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping |
An employee was going back to her classroom when she tripped and fell to the floor, suffering multiple fractures to her arm and kneecap. | |||||
2019-02-22 | Okeechobee | Florida | American Roofing, LLC | Wrist(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was installing a metal roof when he slipped and fell on the roof. When the employee fell, he hit the edge of a metal roof panel with his right wrist and suffered a laceration that cut tendon and ligaments, requiring surgery. | |||||
2017-10-01 | Okeechobee | Florida | Hales Amusment, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Intentional injury by other person |
An employee was injured when a fight broke out at work. | |||||
2017-09-27 | Okeechobee | Florida | Charles Industries | Thigh(s) | Fall onto or against object on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee tripped on an office chair and struck his knee on a table, tearing his quadriceps tendon and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2017-04-27 | Okeechobee | Florida | Southeast Milk, Inc. | Leg(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee was operating a forklift to move drums on a pallet. He dismounted the forklift to adjust two drums that had become off-center on the pallet when a drum fell and struck his leg, resulting in his hospitalization for a broken leg. | |||||
2017-04-11 | Okeechobee | Florida | Sunny Grove Ranch Inc | Multiple trunk locations | Thrown, fell, or jumped from animal being ridden |
An employee was riding a horse to move cattle and was thrown from the horse. The employee sustained fractured ribs on the right side and a fractured left pelvis. | |||||
2017-02-10 | Okeechobee | Florida | RAULERSON HOSPITAL | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over self |
An employee was getting paperwork out of a filing cabinet when she tripped and fell, breaking her left hip. | |||||
2016-09-06 | Okeechobee | Florida | Evans Properties, Inc. | Multiple trunk locations | Struck by falling part of powered vehicle still attached |
An employee leaned against the left upright batwing of a Rhino mower that came unhooked and fell onto the employee. The employee suffered four broken ribs and three fractured vertebrae (L2, L3, L4). | |||||
2015-11-06 | Okeechobee | Florida | Columbia Grain & Ingredients, Inc. | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was unloading the truck (grains) when he fell into a pit. His foot got caught on an auger screw conveyor, resulting in two cuts and two fractured toes on his left foot. | |||||
2015-08-13 | Okeechobee | Florida | Pike Electric, LLC | Nonclassifiable | Exposure to electricity |
An employee was hospitalized after an electrical flash occurred during an operation to change a wooden beam to a concrete beam. | |||||
2015-06-04 | Okeechobee | Florida | SOUTHEAST MILK, INC. | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was found on the ground next to a milk tanker trailer after possibly falling from the trailer's ladder. The employee was hospitalized for multiple injuries. | |||||
2015-03-05 | Okeechobee | Florida | Clyde Johnson Contracting & Roofing, Inc. | Knee(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
An employee was performing carpentry work using a nail gun to nail bracing for a new residential dwelling's soffits. He was descending the ladder when the nail gun bumped the ladder and discharged a nail into his kneecap. |