Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-07-02 | Theodore | Al | U.S. Lumber Group, LLC | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Injured by object breaking in hand |
An employee was preparing strips of moulding for delivery. The moulding was stacked on a wooden pallet, which the employee grabbed to move the material closer to his workstation. A slat of the pallet broke and struck the employee in the abdominal area resulting in a lacerated bladder. | |||||
2021-05-19 | Theodore | Al | Fortune Gulf States Propco, LLC | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
An employee was grabbing a package from a shelf in a freezer. A forklift backed over her foot. One of her toes was amputated. | |||||
2020-08-26 | Theodore | Al | Wolseley Industrial Group | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was helping a crane operator move a valve off a pallet. The employee hooked up the valve by the shaft. When it was raised, the valve shifted and caught the employee's right index finger against the crane block. The fingertip was amputated. | |||||
2020-05-19 | Theodore | Alabama | Brown & Root Industrial Services, LLC | Leg(s) | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
Two employees were using a golf cart to transit from one production building to the other when the golf cart veered off the road and turned over into a ditch. The cart landed on one employee's right leg, breaking it in several places. | |||||
2020-03-10 | Theodore | Alabama | C&B Fabrication LLC | Upper arm(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
An employee was blasting a steel structure using black beauty/coal slag as the blast media. The employee lost control of the hose and blasting device and was struck in the upper right arm by the blast media sustaining a laceration and penetration of the skin. | |||||
2020-01-17 | Theodore | Alabama | Barnett Millworks, Inc. | Hip(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
The injured employee was holding a stack of doors while another employee pulled a door out from the stack. The injured employee fell to the ground, striking his head (which sustained a 1-inch cut) and back and suffering a broken hip. | |||||
2019-08-23 | Theodore | Alabama | Rosen Materials | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee became dehydrated while delivering building materials due to the heat. | |||||
2019-07-18 | Theodore | Alabama | Mike Hooks, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee had been draining a small vat used for cleaning machine parts; he had carried a 5-gallon bucket of cleaning fluid upstairs four times to pour it into a waste oil collection tank. He suffered dehydration and heat-exhaustion-related hand cramping, then chest and abdomen cramping. | |||||
2018-04-07 | Theodore | Alabama | Brown & Root Industrial Services, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was dumping a hopper on a forklift attachment. The attachment dumped the load and was returning to the upright position at the same time that the employee's left index finger was in a pinch point position. The employee's left index finger was amputated to the first knuckle. | |||||
2018-01-19 | Theodore | Alabama | Acme Truck Line, Inc. | Thigh(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was climbing into a truck trailer when his foot slipped and he fell to the ground, fracturing his right femur. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2017-01-04 | Theodore | Alabama | Barnett Millworks, Inc. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was walking on steel shelving approximately one foot high. The employee slipped and fell resulting in a chest contusion. | |||||
2016-01-28 | Theodore | Alabama | Mobile Asphalt Company, LLC | Brain | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee was loading a pavement roller onto a lowboy trailer. The roller got too close to the edge of the trailer and rolled over. The employee suffered head trauma. | |||||
2015-12-02 | Theodore | Alabama | Mack Manufacturing Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was holding a shaft that was being knocked out when his finger got pinched between the shaft and the repair box. His right middle fingertip was amputated. | |||||
2015-08-13 | Theodore | Alabama | Barnett Millworks, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee's left ring finger was amputated while running wood through a table saw. | |||||
2015-06-19 | Theodore | Alabama | Advance Disposal | Knee(s) | Other fall to lower level |
On June 19, 2015, an employee missed a step while dismounting from the cab of a front loader truck. He twisted his left knee when he contacted the ground, requiring surgery and hospitalization. | |||||
2015-05-12 | Theodore | Alabama | KBR Inc. | Leg(s) | Struck by discharged or flying object, n.e.c. |
An employee was filling a sandblast pot with more media. As he stepped away from it, the hose fitting decoupled, leaving his right leg in line with blasting media discharge. The discharge caused an abrasion in the right curved area of his right leg. | |||||
2015-05-08 | Theodore | Alabama | TC Construction | Leg(s) | Struck, caught, or crushed in other collapsing structure or equipment |
An employee was trying to separate a piece of angle iron on the pipe rack with his hands. He separated one side of the angle iron from the other two pieces. He was walking next to the pipe rack to get to the other side when the pipe rack collapsed and landed on him, breaking his leg. | |||||
2015-01-23 | Theodore | Alabama | Barnett Millworks, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was cutting wood using a table saw when a part of his thumb was amputated. |