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. | |||||
2020-04-09 | 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. | |||||
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. | |||||
2019-02-07 | 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. |