Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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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. | |||||
2020-01-28 | 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. | |||||
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. | |||||
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. | |||||
2017-06-02 | 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. | |||||
2016-03-29 | 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. | |||||
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. |