| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-09 | Santa | Id | Todd Skinner Trucking LLC | Lower leg(s) | Fall on same level |
| An employee was securing the load straps for a load of lumber. The employee fell and suffered a broken left tibia. | |||||
| 2021-10-07 | Santa Ana | Ca | U.S. POSTAL SERVICE - SANTA ANA PROCESSING & DISTRIBUTION CENTER | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was working with a forklift when their leg got caught in the forklift, causing the employee to fall and suffer a head injury. | |||||
| 2021-08-24 | Santa Fe | Tx | Mp Next Level, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee became ill and was hospitalized, possibly suffering from heat-related illness. | |||||
| 2021-06-21 | Santa Rosa Beach | Fl | Waste Management of Walton County | Scalp | Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, roadway |
| An employee fell from the right riding step of a garbage truck, landing on the ground and suffering a contusion on the back of the head. | |||||
| 2021-04-24 | Santa Rosa Beach | Fl | Cedillo's Professional Painting, LLC. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee was standing on a ladder, preparing the outside of a house for painting. The ladder slipped and the employee fell to the ground about 15 feet below. He suffered broken ribs, a broken leg, and a cracked skull and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-03-01 | Santa Rosa | Ca | Santa Rosa Annex Post Office | Hand(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping |
| A postal carrier was delivering mail when she tripped and fell on the sidewalk, landing on her hand. The employee suffered shattered bones in her hand, which required hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
| 2020-09-25 | Santa Rosa Beach | Fl | Panhandle Insulation | Arm(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was installing insulation at a customer's house. As he was climbing down an A-frame ladder, it shifted and he fell. His arm was pinned under the ladder and broken. | |||||
| 2020-08-22 | Santa Monica | Ca | US Census Bureau Area Census | Leg(s) | Fall on same level |
| An employee slipped and fell on concrete steps while walking toward a house to conduct work, suffering a fractured leg. | |||||
| 2020-01-28 | Santa Rosa Beach | Florida | Henderson Electric of NWF, LLC | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet |
| After installing light fixtures in a room of a new 3-story house, an employee opened the door to an elevator shaft thinking it was another room and fell down approximately 36 feet to the ground floor. He suffered fractures to both legs, a vertebra, and an arm and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2020-01-21 | Santa Ana | California | U.S. POSTAL SERVICE - SANTA ANA PROCESSING & DISTRIBUTION CENTER | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| While sorting mail, an employee tripped on a large mail bin and fell to the concrete floor, suffering a broken left femur. | |||||
| 2019-09-17 | Santa Rosa | California | U.S. Census Bureau, Los Angeles Regional Census Center | Knee(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping on uneven surface |
| An employee was walking down a driveway. Her left foot hit raised pavement and she fell. Both her knees, both her hands, and her face struck the ground; she suffered a broken left patella, a sprained left wrist, and bruising under her lips. | |||||
| 2019-09-17 | Santa Ana | California | U.S. POSTAL SERVICE - SANTA ANA PROCESSING & DISTRIBUTION CENTER | Hand(s) | Struck by falling part of powered vehicle still attached |
| An employee was trying to dislodge the lift gate on the rear of a delivery truck. The gate abruptly dropped on the employee's left hand and injured it. The employee was hospitalized, requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2019-07-30 | Santa | Idaho | American Cedar Sales, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning under the shake clipper when the clipper came down and amputated the left ring and middle fingers. | |||||
| 2019-06-06 | Santa Fe | Texas | Dayton Lease & Pipeline Services, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
| Employees were using a tapping machine to perform a hot tap on a natural gas line. As the employees began a three-way bypass, a flash fire occurred. Two of the employees were hospitalized for burns. | |||||
| 2018-09-10 | Santa Teresa | New Mexico | Totran Transportation Services, Inc. | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was removing tie straps from freight in a trailer when he turned around and a securement stand slipped off the trailer, striking and fracturing two discs in his back. | |||||
| 2018-08-07 | Santa Maria | California | U.S. POSTAL SERVICE | Lip(s) | Other animal bites, nonvenomous |
| An employee was walking away from a house after delivering mail when the home owner opened the door. A dog ran out and bit the employee's lip. | |||||
| 2018-06-25 | Santa Clarita | California | U.S. Postal Service - Santa Clarita | Brain | Struck against stationary object or equipment |
| On June 25, 2018, an employee's head struck the door frame of a mail truck. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-01-22 | Santa Rosa Beach | Florida | L&C Quality Construction Inc. | Wrist(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee slipped and fell to the floor while working from a scaffold resulting in a fractured right wrist. | |||||
| 2017-09-18 | Santa Ana | California | U.S. POSTAL SERVICE - SANTA ANA | Hip(s) | Injured by physical contact during horseplay |
| An employee bumped into another employee and fell to the ground, suffering a fractured hip. | |||||
| 2017-06-02 | Santa Rosa Beach | Florida | Trade Skills, LLC. | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was painting the front section of the first floor entryway of a three-story split plan house. He attempted to access the exterior wall between the first and second floor using a 6-foot step ladder on top of a 3:12 pitched metal roof. He slipped and fell about 4 feet from the ladder onto the metal roof, fracturing his right hip and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-04-08 | Santa Rosa Beach | Florida | Classic Coatings, Inc. | Upper and lower limb(s) | Other fall to lower level 21 to 25 feet |
| An employee was installing concrete moldings when he fell from the third floor porch and fractured his right femur and right wrist. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-04-08 | Santa Rosa Beach | Florida | H & T Contractors, LLC. | Face | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| On April 8, 2017, an employee was cutting a 10-inch water pipe using a pipe saw when the saw blade kicked back and lacerated his face. He was hospitalized and had surgery. | |||||
| 2017-02-15 | Santa Rosa Beach | Florida | Arnett's Gulfside Trail Rides | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Kicked by animal |
| An employee was catching a horse when it kicked her in the chest. She sustained a contusion and bruising to her chest and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2016-07-18 | Santa Rosa Beach | Florida | Stucco John, Inc. | Multiple head locations | Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet |
| An employee was conducting stucco work while on the third buck of a scaffold when he fell 18 feet to the ground resulting in facial and skull fractures. He was admitted to the hospital. | |||||
| 2016-07-17 | Santa Clarita | California | U.S. POSTAL SERVICE | Elbow(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee tripped on an all purpose container (APC) netting and fell to the ground fracturing his elbow. | |||||
| 2016-05-31 | Santa Clarita | California | U.S. Forest Service | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| On or about May 31, 2016, an employee was hospitalized due to a heat-related illness while engaging in physical fitness training. | |||||
| 2016-04-28 | Santa Rita | Guam | Pinto International, Inc. | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was inspecting products being removed from a truck. The truck started to roll away while he was standing with one foot on the truck and the other on the loading dock. He fell and fractured both legs. | |||||
| 2016-03-31 | Santa Fe | Texas | Dicgo Utility Construction, LLC | Leg(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| The employee was walking down the incline of a bayou on uneven terrain at the jobsite. The employee slipped, tripped, and fell to the ground fracturing his right leg. | |||||
| 2016-03-29 | Santa Rosa | Texas | Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| Employees were about to take samples of hot sugar cane juice as the machine was processing the sugar cane. An air bubble inside the line caused the line to burp, and 200-degree hot sugar cane juice inside the line splattered onto the employees. Two employees sustained first and second degree burns. | |||||
| 2016-03-02 | Santa Maria | California | U.S. Forest Service - Los Padres National Forest | Multiple body parts | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| While an employee was conducting a tree felling operation, the holding wood snapped and the tree came off the stump in the direction of the employee. The employee was following a designated escape route when the bole of the tree impacted his left side, breaking his rib, scapula, and clavicle; cutting his lip; and causing a chest contusion. | |||||
| 2015-12-15 | Santa Clarita | California | U.S. Postal Service - Santa Clarita | Foot (feet) | Entangled in other object or equipment |
| On or about December 15, 2015 at 3:10p.m., a mail handler got her right foot caught in some unsecured netting on a parcel container and twisted her foot resulting in a fracture. | |||||
| 2015-09-09 | Santa Fe | New Mexico | Bureau of Land Management | Upper and lower limb(s) | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
| An employee was fighting a fire in a remote area. The employee had an extra drip torch, which had leaked fuel. The residual fuel caught on fire, and the employee sustained second degree burns on the back of the arm, above the left elbow in the triceps area, as well as burns around both legs/sock areas. | |||||
| 2015-08-03 | Santa Ynez | California | SME STEEL | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was walking on a steel beam when his personal fall protection got hung up on a wire rope clip while anchored to a horizontal life line. He fell approximately 10 feet to the steel deck below and broke his leg. | |||||
| 2015-08-01 | Santa Clarita | California | U.S. Postal Service - Santa Clarita | Arm(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee working on the automated parcel bundle sorter machine fell to the floor after tripping on a piece of strapping material. The employee's left arm was injured, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2015-05-13 | Santa Rosa Beach | Florida | Florida Community Services Corp. of Walton County | Leg(s) | Bites and stings, n.e.c. |
| An employee was bitten by an insect and had a swollen leg. He was hospitalized to cut/drain the bite area. | |||||