Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-11-07 | Ponte Vedra Beach | Fl | Valley Smoke Restaurant, LLC. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
On November 7, 2021, an employee was cutting peppers using a dicer machine. He changed the blade, turned on the machine, and put the peppers back into the machine when the blade contacted his right middle and index fingertips. The employee suffered an amputation without bone loss on his index fingertip and an amputation with bone loss on his middle fingertip. | |||||
2021-10-05 | Ponte Vedra Beach | Fl | Cavalier Spirits | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level |
On October 5, 2021, an employee was unloading products from the back of a box truck. He was on the lift gate with a dolly full of beer boxes; when he pressed the descend button, the dolly began moving away from him. As he tried to catch it, he fell off the lift gate with the dolly and the beer boxes. He suffered injuries to his shoulder, back, and leg and was hospitalized. | |||||
2020-09-26 | Ponte Vedra | Fl | Jaguar Drywall of Ponte Vedra Beach Inc | Upper and lower limb(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was on a 24-foot extension ladder doing touch up work on cornerbead at a window. The ladder slipped on paper that was protecting the floor and the employee fell. The employee sustained a broken femur and arm. | |||||
2020-04-09 | Ponte Vedra Beach | Florida | PGA Tour | Thigh(s) | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
On April 9, 2020, an employee was operating a pesticide sprayer on a slope at a golf course. The sprayer rolled over and broke his right thigh. | |||||
2020-03-23 | Ponte Vedra | Florida | Publix Super Market, Inc. | Thigh(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was stocking a shelf from a 2-foot stepladder. The employee fell from the stepladder to the floor, suffering a broken left femur. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-07-11 | Ponte Vedra | Florida | Jax Dirtworks, Inc. | Lumbar region | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
On July 11, 2019, an employee was laying an 8-foot, 36-inch diameter concrete pipe as an excavator was pulling the grade. As the excavator was setting the bucket (54-inch wide) down on the ground it pushed the employee towards the 36-inch pipe. The employee's lower back got caught between the bucket and the pipe. He sustained bruising and a contusion to his lower back and was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-07-08 | Ponte Vedra Beach | Florida | Yellowstone Landscape-Southeast, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee had been performing landscaping work. While riding in the truck after leaving the job site, the employee experienced cramping in the legs. He was hospitalized with heat stress. | |||||
2019-04-12 | Ponte Vedra | Florida | Bohemia Roofing Co., Inc. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
A roofer was carrying a box of nails when he fell off of the roof of a one-story house and landed on the ground. He sustained a broken left arm and left pelvis and was hospitalized. A safety lanyard was not connected at the time of the incident. | |||||
2019-03-16 | Ponte Vedra | Florida | Publix Super Markets, Inc. | Lumbar region | Overexertion involving outside sources |
An employee was opening the door to a delivery trailer with the help of two other employees. He was hospitalized for treatment of a pinched nerve on his lower back. | |||||
2019-02-07 | Ponte Vedra Beach | Florida | Elite Custom Homes & Renovation, Inc. | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was climbing an 8-foot A-frame ladder to work on bolted ceiling blocks. He slipped and fell from the ladder to the floor, breaking his wrist and suffering a brain hematoma. | |||||
2018-07-26 | Ponte Vedra Beach | Florida | Publix Supermarkets, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was pushing a money tray into a safe when his right middle finger was caught between the dummy door (which hid the money) and the bottom of the safe. The tip of his right middle finger was amputated. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2017-03-24 | Ponte Vedra | Florida | Sun State Nursery & Landscaping, Inc. | Skull | Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, roadway |
On March 14, 2017, at 4:30 p.m., an employee was standing on the back of a company panel truck van after loading pipe on the trailer when the van began moving. He then slipped and fell from the truck and struck his head against the truck or trailer, fracturing his skull and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2016-02-12 | Ponte Vedra | Florida | Comcast Corporation | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Overexertion in pushing, pulling, or turning-single episode |
An employee was pulling on cable in the attic when his hernia became twisted and strangulated. |