Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-11-02 | Tavares | Fl | KLS Construction Services LLC | Hand(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was using a circular saw to cut a 2-by-4. The saw cut the employee's left hand. | |||||
2021-09-09 | Tavares | Fl | United Signs & Signals, Inc. | Scalp | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
On September 9, 2021, an employee was setting a manhole's cover back in place when the arm of a mini-excavator struck his hard hat, knocking him to the ground and causing a laceration to the back of his head. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2021-05-14 | Tavares | Fl | Sunday Cool, LLC | Arm(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was working at a printing press. The employee was checking T-shirts and ink between two pallets when the machine was shifted, crushing and breaking the employee's right arm. | |||||
2021-01-07 | Tavares | Fl | Ciraco Underground, Inc. | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
Employees had just finished a vacuum test on a sewer manhole. They removed the vacuum test lid from the manhole and were moving to place it into the back of a truck when one of the employees fell into the manhole, landing 13 feet below and suffering a broken left leg. | |||||
2020-03-22 | Tavares | Florida | AdventHealth Waterman | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
While handling a patient's wallet, an employee came into contact with a white powder resulting in a possible exposure to fentanyl. | |||||
2019-05-18 | Tavares | Florida | Walgreens Co. | Eye(s) | Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was bending down to get something from a bottom counter when the employee's eye hit a metal bag holder, causing an eye injury. | |||||
2017-06-14 | Tavares | Florida | Circle K Stores | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level |
An employee was sweeping outside the store past the gas pumps. When the employee stepped off the concrete and into sand, the employee fell and fractured the right ankle on both sides. | |||||
2017-02-24 | Tavares | Florida | Ferrellgas Inc. | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Overexertion in lifting-single episode |
An employee was lifting propane bottles and suffered a pinched nerve in his back. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2016-08-25 | Tavares | Florida | Metro Steel & Pipe Supply Inc | Multiple body parts | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee was working near the steel loader rake unit. The unit slipped and rolled over the employee breaking his right foot and three ribs. |