Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-06-09 | White Castle | La | Alder Vegetation Group | BODY SYSTEMS | Direct exposure to electricity |
An employee was working in an aerial bucket lift when his left shoulder contacted an energized overhead wire. He was hospitalized, undergoing surgery to the shoulder. | |||||
2021-01-26 | White Castle | La | Cora Texas Manufacturing Company | Hand(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
An employee was using a pressure washer to clean equipment. He slipped and the water stream lacerated his left hand. He was hospitalized, undergoing surgery to the hand. | |||||
2020-09-16 | White Castle | La | Cora-Texas Mfg. Co., Inc. | Lumbar region | Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet |
An employee was walking on an elevated walkway approximately 20 feet high to reach a camera that needed repair. As he walked past another employee who was also walking on the walkway, he fell through an opening in the hand rail. The employee sustained a broken right arm, a fractured L-4 vertebra and a laceration to the face that require stitches. The employee required surgery to repair a fracture. | |||||
2019-08-05 | White Castle | Louisiana | Ramagos Farms, Inc | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was walking behind the planter machine that was planting sugar cane. While on break the employee collapsed. The employee was hospitalized for heat stroke with complications. | |||||
2018-03-16 | White Castle | Louisiana | JP Oil Services, LLC | Multiple body parts | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
An employee was pumping water down tubing to get mud back to a frac tank. When the pump pressured up, the inner rubber of the hose came apart, plugging the hose and causing it to blow out of the tank. The hose then struck the employee's wrist and chest. | |||||
2017-07-26 | White Castle | Louisiana | Reliable Production Service LLC | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
The injured employee was standing on a wellhead that weighed about 8,000 pounds. The wellhead was sitting on a ring gasket about 10 feet off the floor. While the employee was unlatching the chain from the elevator to the wellhead, his colleague moved the elevator. The employee and the wellhead fell about 10 feet to the ground. The employee was hospitalized for a lacerated liver and spleen, as well as multiple fractures, which included several ribs, the pelvis, and the left arm. |