| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-15 | Plaquemine | La | Amsted Digital Solutions | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was installing equipment on a rail car. The employee developed heat-related illness and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-02-09 | Plaquemine | La | Repcon, Inc | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was dismounting from the bumper of a pickup truck. As the employee was stepping off, the bumper components slipped out from under him, causing him to fall to the ground. The employee sustained a closed fracture of his left ankle, requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2020-01-21 | Plaquemine | Louisiana | Petrin Corporation | Lower leg(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was leaving his station for lunch after completing construction of a scaffold. While stepping over a pipe, he tripped and fell, twisting his leg and breaking his left tibia and fibula. | |||||
| 2019-08-28 | Plaquemine | Louisiana | Flopam, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| While leaving after shift ended, an employee ran off the road while exiting the facility's parking lot and was found unresponsive and/or incoherent. The employee was hospitalized due to heat-related illness. | |||||
| 2019-08-15 | Plaquemine | Louisiana | Turner Specialty Services | Hand(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was hydroblasting the tubes in a spare condenser with a lance. As he moved the lance from one tube to the next, the lance engaged, jumped back, and lacerated the employee's right hand. | |||||
| 2019-08-07 | Plaquemine | Louisiana | Replacement Parts Inc. | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was on a ladder attempting to put a belt on an exhaust fan when the fan began spinning. The pulley popped out and hit him on the head, knocking him off the ladder. He suffered a cervical spinal cord injury. | |||||
| 2019-07-25 | Plaquemine | Louisiana | Toyo USA, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Trip on uneven surface without fall |
| An employee was walking down concrete steps from a 19" concrete platform. On the last step, the employee's left foot stepped on the front edge of the step, causing the employee's right foot to roll. He lost his balance and continued to step down. His body and leg moved in a twisting motion, causing a break in his right tibia as his right foot impacted the ground. He did not fall down. He then sat down on the step and radioed for help. | |||||
| 2019-03-05 | Plaquemine | Louisiana | SGS Petroleum Service Corporation | Leg(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was connecting railcars. The employee's right foot/ankle was caught between the railcar connection devices, causing crushing injuries that required hospitalization and surgical amputation. | |||||
| 2018-09-27 | Plaquemine | Louisiana | SNF Flopam, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was removing a pipe plug and attempting to clear debris from a rotary valve when the valve amputated the employee's right middle fingertip. | |||||
| 2018-08-29 | Plaquemine | Louisiana | DIAMOND PLASTICS CORPORATION | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee's right hand entered a machine and was amputated. | |||||
| 2018-08-08 | Plaquemine | Louisiana | Westlake Chemical | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was attempting to clear a plugged pipe when a 3/4 " threaded nipple blew out, causing the contents of the line and flush water to strike the employee. He suffered thermal burns on his abdomen, hands, and arms. | |||||
| 2018-07-30 | Plaquemine | Louisiana | Mac-Nett Industries, Inc. | Hand(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| An employee was using a 3,000-psi hose attached to the side of his vacuum truck. Water from the hose struck and lacerated his hand. | |||||
| 2018-05-26 | Plaquemine | Louisiana | McDermott | Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was standing on some small pipes, lining the flange on the top of a pump skid on a foundation about 3 feet high. He lost his balance and went over the side of the skid, fracturing a vertebra in his neck. | |||||
| 2018-05-25 | Plaquemine | Louisiana | TURNER INDUSTRIES | Hand(s), except finger(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| At about 3:30 p.m. on May 25, 2018, an employee was in a cell renewal building, hydroblasting deposits from a cell body. A 4-foot section of hose connected to the blasting gun ruptured in the palm of their left hand, causing a laceration. | |||||
| 2018-05-23 | Plaquemine | Louisiana | McDermott | BODY SYSTEMS | Stings and venomous bites |
| An employee was stung by a bee and had a severe allergic reaction. | |||||
| 2018-04-27 | Plaquemine | Louisiana | Rouses Enterprises, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was using a band saw to cut meat when the moving blade lacerated his right index and middle fingers, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-05-10 | Plaquemine | Louisiana | Sunland Construction, Inc | Upper and lower limb(s) | Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| An employee was re-erecting goal posts below a power line when the stringer of flags on one end of the goal posts became hung up on the passenger-side rear-view mirror of a haul truck. The injured employee was attempting to free the stringer of flags when a coworker raised a PVC pipe to place it over a t-post. The top of the PVC pole, where the stringer of flags was tied, came into contact with the overhead power line. The employee sustained burns to his left arm, left hand, and right foot. He w | |||||
| 2017-03-16 | Plaquemine | Louisiana | Olin Chlor Alkali | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| An employee was de-pressuring a vessel. After a pressure check with nitrogen, the employee was exposed to a small amount of chlorine released from the vent. The employee was admitted to the hospital for chlorine inhalation. | |||||
| 2017-02-18 | Plaquemine | Louisiana | Turner Specialty Services, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee and a coworker opened the hood of a dump truck to diagnose why the fan of the radiator was not engaging. The injured employee was on the passenger side while the coworker was on the driver side. The coworker entered the cab and started the engine. The injured employee contacted the radiator's belt and pulley at that moment, which amputated the end joint of the employee's right index finger. | |||||
| 2017-02-14 | Plaquemine | Louisiana | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was walking along the side of a levy when he slipped and fell on damp grass, breaking his ankle in two places. | |||||
| 2017-02-08 | Plaquemine | Louisiana | COASTAL INDUSTRIAL CONTRACTING OF LOUISIANA, L.L.C. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was pulling belts on a large blower when his hand became caught on a belt. His right ring fingertip was amputated and a bone broke in his right index finger. | |||||
| 2016-10-05 | Plaquemine | Louisiana | Turner Industries Group, L.L.C. | Elbow(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| On Thursday, October 5, 2016, at approximately 3:15 p.m., an employee was descending from the fourth deck of a scaffold (5x16x40) after installing blinds. At the 8-feet mark, he lost three-point contact and fell to ground level, dislocating and fracturing his left elbow. His PPE was not connected at the time. | |||||
| 2016-04-15 | Plaquemine | Louisiana | Brand Energy Solutions | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| Employees were offloading pipe onto a pipe stand. An employee's hand was resting on the pipe stand and when the pipe came down, his hand was pinched between the pipe and the pipe stand, breaking his left index finger. | |||||
| 2016-03-29 | Plaquemine | Louisiana | Turner Industries | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was performing maintenance on a machine when a finger contacted the belt and pulley resulting in a fingertip amputation with bone loss. | |||||
| 2015-12-18 | Plaquemine | Louisiana | CAJUN CONSTRUCTORS | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was inspecting welds on a scaffold and fell 6.5 feet resulting in a broken leg. Fall protection was worn at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2015-11-11 | Plaquemine | Louisiana | HydroChem, LLC | Ankle(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| An employee was hydro-blasting the inside of a tank when the hose ruptured, sending high-velocity water over his foot. The water lacerated his ankle, requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2015-06-24 | Plaquemine | Louisiana | Dow Chemical Co. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee reached into a packaging scale to clean out polyethylene packaging pellets and the pneumatic gate closed on his right hand. | |||||
| 2015-05-01 | Plaquemine | Louisiana | WHC, LLC | Leg(s) | Other jump to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was attempting to offload a car hauler when he lost his balance and jumped off the trailer approximately 5 feet 3 inches landing on his left leg. He sustained multiple fractures to the leg bones and was hospitalized for surgery. | |||||
| 2015-02-01 | Plaquemine | Louisiana | Flopam, Inc. | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| Employee engaged in housekeeping operations slipped on a wet floor. Employee fell on his back and struck a curb. The employee was admitted to the hospital. | |||||