Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2019-06-19 | Saint Gabriel | Louisiana | Service Transport | Multiple face locations | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
An employee was transferring product from a trailer to a tote when the employee was splashed with sulfuric acid on the face and left eye. | |||||
2018-05-23 | Saint Gabriel | Louisiana | Delta Companies Group | Multiple trunk locations | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
An employee was removing a lock from the front of a 40-foot container when a third-party truck driver backed up and pinned the employee between the truck and the container. The employee suffered four broken ribs and bleeding around the liver. | |||||
2018-01-04 | Saint Gabriel | Louisiana | Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC. | Fingertip(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee was standing near a forklift that was carrying a cage. As the employee braced himself on a nearby angle iron, his finger was caught between the cage and the angle iron, amputating his left ring fingertip. | |||||
2017-07-10 | Saint Gabriel | Louisiana | Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was tightening a chain on a roll-off-bin. He was ratcheting the links in the chain when his left ring finger was caught and fractured in a pinch point, requiring hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
2015-10-12 | Saint Gabriel | Louisiana | Delta Companies Group | Lower leg(s) | Fall on same level |
An employee was walking in the warehouse and fell breaking the lower left leg. | |||||
2015-09-14 | Saint Gabriel | Louisiana | GEO HEAT EXCHANGERS, L.L.C. | Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
An employee was at the shop warehouse using a come-a-long to pull a tube bundle inside a condenser shell. The come-a-long hook was attached to a metal lifting lug welded onto a shell. As the employee was pulling the tube bundle back into the condenser shell, the weld holding the lug onto the shell broke. The lug struck the employee in the throat. | |||||
2015-01-12 | Saint Gabriel | Louisiana | Chancellor, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
Employee was testing a meter with an 8-ft shotgun stick in an energized zone and encountered an arc flash. This incident occurred at approximately 8:00 AM on January 12, 2015. The employee was hospitalized with 2nd and 3rd degree burns. The employee was authorized to be in the energized zone and was wearing flame retardant clothing, a hard hat, safety glasses and a high-visibility vest. |