| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-23 | Hot Springs | Ar | Timber Automation, LLC. | Nonclassifiable | Struck by object or equipment |
| An employee was working on a piece of welded equipment. Having been lifted on one side by a crane, the equipment was being supported by the crane on one side and by a horse and braces on the other. While the employee was under the equipment adjusting the horse, the equipment shifted; the horse struck and injured the employee. | |||||
| 2021-07-16 | Washington | Dc | Engie Georgetown University | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was climbing down a ladder when it shifted, pinching the employee's little finger against the overhead water pipes and steel support braces. The finger was severely lacerated, resulting in an amputation below the knuckle. | |||||
| 2021-03-03 | Sinton | Tx | Associated Brigham Contractors Inc. | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee had been setting up braces for piers on a three-foot foundation. His foot slipped off the edge of the pier, causing him to lose balance. He fell backward to the ground, landing on his back and his head struck a hard clump of dirt. The employee was hospitalized with seizures. | |||||
| 2020-09-14 | Mount Pocono | Pa | Northeast Precast | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level |
| On Monday, September 14, 2020, at approximately 10:40 AM, employees were setting precast concrete wall panels (45' x 12'). A lift was used to pickup braces. The frame of the lift contacted a wall brace causing a concrete panel to fall. As the panel fell, it struck a manlift that was being used to install braces. As the manlift fell, it struck the lift causing an employee in the manlift to be ejected. He was wearing a personal fall arrest harness at the time. The employee sustained a fractured ri | |||||
| 2020-06-04 | Fayetteville | West Virgini | G. A. Carlson & Company | Head | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| Two employees were installing braces on trusses. One of them was using a nail gun when it struck the other employee's head and discharged, firing a 3 1/2-inch framing nail into his head. | |||||
| 2020-04-23 | Austin | Texas | CAPFORM, INC. | Multiple back regions | Struck, caught, or crushed in other collapsing structure or equipment |
| Two employees were taking cross-braces off a shoring tower and handing them to a third employee at the base of the frame. They were working from the top down, and had removed the braces from the top two sections; as they began to remove the braces from the bottom section, the tower tipped over and landed on the employee on the ground. The employee suffered three broken vertebrae and three dislocated vertebrae in the back. | |||||
| 2020-01-31 | Stone Mountain | Georgia | The Conlan Company | Pelvis | Fall, slip, trip, n.e.c. |
| An employee was removing 65-foot concrete wall braces using a powered industrial truck and a choker sling. He was holding a tag line at the end of the brace. When the brace was removed the balance was uneven. The brace cantilevered and seesawed the employee 20 feet into the air. He struck the ground, fracturing his pelvis. | |||||
| 2019-04-30 | Corpus Christi | Texas | Samson Roofing LLC | Multiple body parts | Fall or jump curtailed by personal fall arrest system |
| An employee was removing roofing material from a retail store front canopy. The employee was walking on plywood that had been placed over the support braces. The employee stepped into an area that did not have plywood and fell to the ground. His fall was partially arrested by his safety harness. The employee suffered fractures to the face, nose and right arm. | |||||
| 2019-02-18 | Stephenville | Texas | Gay & Son Masonry, LP | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee fell while climbing over a scaffold's cross-braces. The employee landed on the ground, suffering a broken femur and a burst fracture of a lower back vertebra. | |||||
| 2019-02-15 | Houston | Texas | PETERSON BECKNER INDUSTRIES, INC. | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Struck by rolling object or equipment-other than powered vehicle |
| An employee was checking piece mark numbers on pipe braces. A timber dunnage broke and a pipe rolled off, striking the employee's right foot and breaking his big toe. | |||||
| 2018-08-20 | Columbia | Missouri | REINHARDT CONSTRUCTION COMPANY | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was attempting to flip over a concrete column form using a tower crane to access and tighten the pipe braces on the bottom side of the form. His hand was on a partially suspended form when his left thumb was pinched between the form and the pipe brace, resulting in a partial thumb amputation (just below the first knuckle). | |||||
| 2018-07-12 | Countryside | Illinois | BXH CONSTRUCTION, INC | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Struck, caught, or crushed in other collapsing structure or equipment |
| An employee was installing drywall on a piece of wall that was laying flat on the ground. Nearby, a 9-foot wall with drywall was already framed and standing on its own with four support braces. Strong winds blew the standing wall down and it struck the employee's back. | |||||
| 2018-05-27 | Bay Shore | New York | Penske Logistics | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was un-securing loaded carts for removal by trailer. The employee grabbed a cart on the crossbraces to pull it forward, and the brace cut the employee's right middle finger at the first joint. | |||||
| 2018-05-04 | Karnes City | Texas | Brace Integrated Services, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| On May 4, 2018, an employee started to build a scaffold when the vertical scaffold leg fell and hit the cross braces. The employee's left ring finger was caught between the cross braces and the vertical scaffold leg. His left ring fingertip was amputated (no bone loss). | |||||
| 2017-08-14 | Columbus | Ohio | Stone Mart | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| On August 14, 2017, an employee was removing braces in a shipping container when granite slabs fell onto the employee's chest. The employee suffered broken ribs and a collapsed lung. | |||||
| 2017-07-10 | Circleville | Ohio | Global Metal Construction | Knee(s) and leg(s) | Struck, caught, or crushed in other collapsing structure or equipment |
| An employee was helping to erect five rack frames. Before braces could be affixed to the frames, the C-clamp that was holding the second frame upright failed, causing the frame to fall on the employee. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left tibia, ruptured ACL, and a joint bleed. | |||||
| 2016-08-10 | Port Arthur | Texas | Stallion Oilfield Construction, LLC | Head and trunk | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee had attached braces to a tank using a ladder. He started to climb down and fell approximately 7 to 8 feet to the ground striking his head. The employee was hospitalized for a fractured skull and ribs. | |||||
| 2016-05-02 | Commerce City | Colorado | Packaging Corporation of America | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee received a partial amputation of the left middle finger when it was pinched between two wood blocks used as braces while attempting to use a pallet jack to lift a paper roll out of the corrugator. | |||||
| 2015-09-30 | Highland | Illinois | Coach House Inc. dba Coach House Garages | Lumbar region | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was nailing trusses to the side wall and stepped off of the all on to the adjacent patio ceiling. He then fell through the braces to the ground eight feet below resulting in crushing injuries to the lumbar region of the back. | |||||
| 2015-09-03 | Chicago | Illinois | Contractors Access Equipment Inc. | Brain | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee was dismantling a canopy with a wrench while standing on the cross braces. The employee lost their footing and fell approximately 14 feet to the concrete pavement, sustaining a head injury and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2015-08-26 | North Little Rock | Arkansas | EAST BAY ELECTRIC, LLC | Multiple body parts | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| An employee was working on a power line from a bucket truck moving wire lines from an old pole to set a new pole when the old cross arm braces broke and live electric wires fell on his right shoulder/arm. As a result of the two phased electrical contact flash, the employee suffered a second degree burn on the right shoulder and right side of his body and was hospitalized. | |||||