Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-10-16 | Waco | Tx | Sisk-Robb, Incorporated | Nonclassifiable | Indirect exposure to electricity |
An employee cut into an electrical conduit wire while he was removing asbestos insulation from a demolition site. The employee was hospitalized for electrical burns. | |||||
2018-07-31 | Defiance | Ohio | Total Environmental Services LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to harmful substances or environments |
Two employees became ill while removing asbestos tile. They were hospitalized. | |||||
2018-07-11 | Dekalb | Illinois | EHC Industries, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
On July 11, 2018, an employee was working from a mobile scaffold, about 12 feet above a concrete floor, to remove asbestos. He fell to the floor, fracturing his wrist and hip. The scaffold's guardrails had been removed at the time of the incident. | |||||
2018-04-23 | Savannah | Georgia | ARC Abatement, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Entangled in other object or equipment |
An employee was using a rope and pulley system to lower asbestos bags from the seventh floor of a boiler when the rope (which was wet) slipped in his hands and looped around his right thumb, severely lacerating it and resulting in a surgical amputation at the first knuckle. | |||||
2015-09-26 | Mansfield | Texas | Intercon Environmental, Inc. | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment |
An employee was loading asbestos bags onto the scaffold and walking. The scaffold collapsed, struck him in the head, and knocked him down. He sustained a back injury. | |||||
2015-06-25 | Bremen | Georgia | Magoba Environmental, LLC | Upper and lower limb(s) | Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet |
An employee was assisting in remediation work to include asbestos removal and duct work. The employee was on the roof of a gymnasium when the roof vent on which he was standing/sitting collapsed. The employee fell approximately 15 feet to the lower level. The employee broke his right ankle and right arm as a result of the fall. | |||||
2015-05-19 | Cato | New York | Jag Environmental LLC. | Nonclassifiable | Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet |
An employee fell from a 15 foot roof surface opening while removing material as part of asbestos remediation. The employee was wearing a personal fall arrest system that initially engaged then failed, causing the employee to strike the concrete pad beneath him. |