Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2019-07-24 | Ruston | Louisiana | Quality Truss of Texas LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was cutting lumber with a pull saw. He had accumulated some scrap lumber underneath the blade. He turned the saw off and proceeded to clean under the saw blade and guard when his hand hit the blade, lacerating his left thumb and index finger. The blade had not come to a complete stop at the time of the incident. | |||||
2019-05-16 | Ruston | Louisiana | XERIUM Technologies, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Fall on same level |
An employee was cleaning a large bearing in a wash tank. The employee fell backwards with the bearing and landed on concrete. The employee suffered head trauma, a broken right forearm and lacerations. | |||||
2019-03-14 | Ruston | Louisiana | Trinity Heavy Hauling, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Struck by thrown object-unintentional injury |
The injured employee was positioning wooden chock blocks/boards for leveling a piece of equipment. Another employee tossed a board towards the board the injured employee was holding. It struck the board the injured employee was holding and smashed the tip of the employee's right ring finger. The employee suffered an open fracture and avulsion and underwent a medical amputation of about 1/2 inch off the tip of the finger. | |||||
2018-04-15 | Ruston | Louisiana | CUDD PUMPING SERVICES | Foot (feet) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was standing on a piece of equipment to assist in a maintenance task when a second employee inadvertently started the equipment. The injured employees' left foot then became caught and fractured in a rotating piece of machinery. The equipment was unguarded at the time. | |||||
2017-09-29 | Ruston | Louisiana | Breeland Logging, LLC | Multiple body parts | Struck by other falling powered vehicle |
An employee's work truck was disabled on the side of the road. He set two jacks under the bumper and crawled under the truck to place a jack under the axle. While he was under the truck, one of the jacks slipped, causing the truck to fall on him. He suffered 16 broken ribs, a broken sternum, and a broken left scapula. | |||||
2016-05-19 | Ruston | Louisiana | XERIUM Technologies, Inc. | Ankle(s) and knee(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee was performing an inspection on a bearing housing that was attached to a forklift by a strap. The housing came loose and fell onto the employee shattering his left knee and breaking his ankle. | |||||
2016-04-14 | Ruston | Louisiana | Nabors Drilling | Hand(s), except finger(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee putting thread protectors on drill pipe was resting his hand on a TM-80 iron rough neck. The rough neck operator did not see his hand and started retracting the equipment, which caught the employee's right hand in a pinch point and broke a bone. | |||||
2015-09-02 | Ruston | Louisiana | Chad Pody Construction Co., LLC | Foot(feet) and leg(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee exited his dump truck and approached a trackhoe operator. The trackhoe had a piece of concrete barrier in its grasp about 6 inches off the ground. The concrete barrier rolled onto the employee's right foot and leg, resulting in broken leg/foot. |