Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-06-29 | Wilmington | Delaware | PEPSI BEVERAGES COMPANY | Multiple body parts | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee was loading a pallet full of beverages when a forklift struck him and pinned him between two pallets. He suffered a broken ankle and hip. | |||||
2020-02-24 | Manorville | New York | Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Overexertion in lifting-single episode |
An employee was repairing a clogged drain on an automatic beverage machine at a restaurant. The employee heard a popping noise while lifting the machine over drain pipes. The employee sustained a hernia. | |||||
2020-02-21 | Broussard | Louisiana | NUCO2 | Foot (feet) | Other jump to lower level |
After running overhead beverage lines in a restaurant, an employee jumped off a ladder, landed wrong, and suffered a broken foot. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery. | |||||
2019-09-11 | Houston | Texas | American Bottling Company | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee had completed his route of delivering beverages when he became ill, requiring hospitalization for heat exhaustion. | |||||
2019-08-27 | Beaumont | Texas | Del Papa Distrubuting Company (Beaumont) | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was having shortness of breath and difficulty breathing while delivering beverages to various locations. The employee was hospitalized for dehydration. | |||||
2018-09-05 | Kennesaw | Georgia | NuCO2, LLC | Thigh(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was climbing up a 6-foot ladder to install a carbonated beverage line above a restaurant ceiling. The ladder shifted and he fell to the floor, breaking his right leg just above the knee. | |||||
2018-08-26 | Corpus Christi | Texas | Coca-Cola SW Beverages | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Shooting by other person-intentional |
An employee was waiting in his vehicle for a beverage delivery truck to arrive at the parking lot of a convenience store. The employee's job was to stock merchandise at the convenience store. While waiting in his car, he was shot twice in the chest by a gunman. | |||||
2018-05-14 | New Albany | Ohio | New Albany Country Club | Pelvis | Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c. |
An employee was driving a beverage cart around a golf course when a drawer on the cart opened and became caught on a fence, causing the driver to be thrown from the cart and the cart to flip. The beverage cart landed on top of the employee, who suffered two pelvic fractures. | |||||
2018-03-22 | Maricopa | Arizona | Young Market Company | Elbow(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was delivering beverages to a customer location. He climbed onto the rear of the truck, stepped onto a concrete wall and climbed over the safety rail. His foot got caught on the rail and he fell forward onto the concrete surface resulting in an elbow injury. | |||||
2018-01-09 | New Castle | Delaware | Canada Dry Bottling Company of New Castle | Leg(s) | Collision between a moving and standing vehicle, nonroadway |
An employee was using a walkie rider pallet jack to load cases of beverages into a delivery truck. He lost control as he approached the back of the truck, and his foot slipped off the walkie rider. His left leg was then caught between the front of the walkie rider and the truck bumper, suffering soft tissue damage that required hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
2017-06-10 | Bloomfield | Connecticut | Wintonbury Hills Golf Management LLC | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level |
An employee flipped over a beverage cart and broke her ankle. | |||||
2017-05-23 | Dothan | Alabama | HealthSouth Corporation | Leg(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was preparing coffee beverages and food items for patients in the work area when she slipped on water and fell onto the floor, fracturing her right leg and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2017-02-10 | Palm Springs | Florida | SOUTHERN GLAZER'S WINE AND SPIRITS, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
On February 10, 2017, at about 2:00 PM, an employee was making a beverage delivery with a hand cart loaded with cases. While descending the ramp, the cases started to fall and as he attempted to catch them, his right hand contacted the ramp and his right middle fingertip was lacerated, causing the loss of his finger nail. He was admitted the hospital for surgery. | |||||
2016-03-01 | Shreveport | Louisiana | Red River Beverage Group, LLC | Brain | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was pulling a cart filled with beverages onto the lift gate of a truck when his foot got tangled in the lift gate safety chains. He fell off the lift gate onto the concrete ground, suffering head trauma. | |||||
2015-11-02 | Twinsburg | Ohio | Dr. Pepper Snapple Group | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
A delivery driver was in the process of delivering beverages when he fell off of the lift gate. He was found on the ground unconscious and bleeding from the head. | |||||
2015-10-03 | Lansdale | Pennsylvania | ZEIGLER'S BEVERAGE COMPANY | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck bump, hole, rough terrain on driving surface, nonroadway |
An employee was driving a truck, jockeying trailers around in the yard of a beverage manufacturer. The employee later experienced shortness of breath and chest pain, requiring hospitalization for a collapsed lung. | |||||
2015-06-23 | Springfield | Missouri | BUSKE LOGISTICS | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by falling object or equipment |
A temporary employee and three to four additional temporary and permanent employees were attempting to down-stack leaning pallets of product (canned and bottled beverages) from a stack of three loaded pallets. The stack was approximately 15-20 feet high. The pallets fell, for an unknown reason, and the temporary employee was pinned under product and pallets against the wall. He suffered a broken femur and fibula, broken ribs, a punctured lung, and a possible lacerated spleen. He was hospitalized |