| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-26 | Hot Springs | Ar | Aluma-Weld, Inc. Xpress Boating | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| On July 26, 2021, an employee became ill after a hot, humid day spent preparing aluminum fishing boats to be painted. She was hospitalized, suffering from dehydration. | |||||
| 2020-07-03 | Upper Darby | Pennsylvania | GOLDHORN ELECTRICAL CONSTRUCTION, INC. | Head and trunk | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was working on a six-foot ladder fishing line through a wall when he fell to the ground and sustained a concussion, broken ribs, and a collapsed lung. | |||||
| 2020-02-10 | Empire | Louisiana | Westbank Fishing, LLC | Forearm(s) | Machinery or equipment incident on water vehicle |
| An employee was working as a net mender, tasked with positioning the nets for fishing operations. While the employee was wrapping a rope around the cathead to position the net, his left hand was caught in the cathead and he was wrapped around the cathead several times. The employee was hospitalized with a lacerated left forearm. | |||||
| 2019-08-10 | King Cove | Alaska | Peter Pan Seafoods | Hand(s) | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
| An employee was offloading fish from a fishing tender vessel using a 12-inch suction hose. The hose had an air pocket that caused it to whip, striking the employee's hand against the coaming on a hatch. The employee sustained right-hand lacerations and a fracture. | |||||
| 2019-06-04 | Seattle | Washington | Northlake Shipyard, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Machinery or equipment incident on water vehicle |
| Before noon on June 4, 2019, a marine inspector was conducting an inspection on board a fishing vessel at a shipyard. As the employee was climbing out of the vessel's anchor chain locker, he was shocked by a damaged extension cord running through a chain attached to shelving on a bulkhead. He suffered nerve damage to his thumb and thermal burns to his forearm muscle, and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-04-11 | Lincoln | Nebraska | ELECTRONIC CONTRACTING COMPANY | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was about 6 feet up an 8-foot ladder, fishing wire down a wall. He fell from the ladder to the carpeted floor, breaking his right leg. | |||||
| 2018-09-20 | Grand Junction | Colorado | INNOVATIVE TEXTILES, INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Entangled in other object or equipment |
| An employee was wrapping fishing line onto a spinning hub when the employee's right index finger became caught in the line. The employee pulled the finger away, resulting in an amputation above the top of the nail. | |||||
| 2017-03-02 | Dutch Harbor | Alaska | Global Seas LLC | Jaw, chin | Water vehicle incident, n.e.c. |
| An employee was standing under a net drum waiting to receive fishing nets to work on fishing lines when a basketball hoop that was previously attached to the net drum fell over and struck the employee's right jaw and neck area. The employee suffered a fractured jaw and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2016-02-13 | Gunnison | Colorado | National Park Service | Multiple body parts | Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway |
| An employee was operating a snowmobile to conduct fishing license checks and fell off the snowmobile after catching a patch of ice. The employee was hospitalized with seven broken ribs and a dislocated shoulder. | |||||
| 2015-12-01 | Seattle | Washington | American Seafoods | Upper and lower limb(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee stepped into a storage tote to retrieve fishing line. The tote tipped over, causing the employee to fall into the hold of the ship. The employee suffered a broken right wrist and right leg, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2015-10-26 | Point Pleasant Boro | New Jersey | Fishing Vessel Vengeance | Foot (feet) | Entangled in other object or equipment |
| An employee on a fishing boat got his foot entangled in the rope as the boat was pulling away from the dock. The employee's foot was amputated. | |||||
| 2015-08-14 | Millburn | New Jersey | Verizon | Brain | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was fishing coax wiring through a drop ceiling from a 4-foot, A-frame step ladder. The employee fell from the ladder and struck his head, causing a laceration to the back of his head, bleeding on the brain, and a concussion. He required staples to close the laceration. | |||||
| 2015-08-06 | Grand Junction | Colorado | INNOVATIVE TEXTILES | Fingertip(s) | Entangled in other object or equipment |
| An employee, working as a winder, was threading a spool of high grade fishing line and got the right index finger caught up in the line amputating the tip. | |||||