Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-09-21 | Thornton | Co | Full Metal Iron, LLC | Upper arm(s) | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
On 9/21/2021, at 2:15 PM, an employee in a boom lift was setting a bar joist that was being swung in by a crane. While moving the bar joist across a girder, the joist rolled off the girder and struck the employee’s right arm. The employee sustained a fracture to the upper right arm requiring hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
2021-08-14 | Melville | Ny | In & Out Welders, Inc. | Tooth (teeth) | Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet |
The injured employee was working in the platform of an aerial lift approximately 40 feet above the ground. Another employee was extending the boom of a telehandler with an iron girder truss attached to the forks. As the telehandler operator was lifting the iron girder truss, he simultaneously lifted the left-side outrigger. The length and weight of the girder truss caused the telehandler to tip on its side, striking a support beam. The support beam broke from the anchor bolts, causing the suppor | |||||
2021-07-16 | Edinburg | Pa | Armormax Refractories, Inc. | Foot (feet) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee was assisting co-workers with re-lining a steel ladle cover for a ladle that was approximately 12 feet by 14 feet. The ladle was attached to an overhead double girder bridge crane and was suspended off the floor. The ladle lid moved off the crane and landed on the employee's foot, resulting in broken bones. | |||||
2020-09-30 | Pulaski | Pa | Young Galvanizing, Inc. | Leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
Employees were using an overhead crane to submerge metal I-beams and girders in a galvanizing dip tank. Other I-beams and girders were stacked on the shop floor waiting to be processed. The stack was bumped, causing three I-beams/girders (weighing about 4,000 pounds in total) to fall off and strike an employee's leg. The employee was hospitalized with multiple leg fractures. | |||||
2020-09-11 | Gregory | Tx | Kiewit Corporation | Lower leg(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
The injured employee was aligning a crane girder at the gas compressor building using a 10-ton hydraulic ram and three steel wedges. The employee was removing the last wedge using an 8-pound sledgehammer as another employee stood on the concrete off to the left side holding a tool tether attached to the wedge with python tape. As the injured employee was backing out the last wedge from the right side via a sledgehammer, the wedge unexpectedly came out from in between the column and the shim, str | |||||
2020-08-29 | Katy | Tx | Empire Steel Erectors, LP | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee had been setting long span girders, welding, and adding X-bracing in the gym area. The employee was hospitalized due to heat stress. | |||||
2020-05-31 | El Paso | Texas | Dan Williams Compnay | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was installing pipes for highway construction. Two of the employee's fingers were crushed between a girder and a PVC pipe. The employee underwent surgery. | |||||
2020-05-19 | Lancaster | Pennsylvania | High Steel Structures LLC | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was climbing down a ladder from a trailer. He fell to the ground, his head striking a girder as he fell. He suffered a broken right hip socket. | |||||
2020-03-25 | Montgomery | Alabama | W&W AFCO Steel, LLC | Head | Fall, slip, trip |
An employee was heating a tub girder when he fell to the ground, suffering a cut to the head that required stitches. | |||||
2020-02-12 | Cincinnati | Ohio | Walsh Construction Company II, LLC. | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level |
Two employees were descending in an aerial lift after doing bridge work. The boom and basket became stuck against the bridge girder. When the boom came loose, the wheels of the boom lift came off the ground and threw the employees out of the basket. Both suffered broken legs, and one was hospitalized. | |||||
2020-01-12 | Norfolk | Virginia | Turn Key Scaffold, LLC | Upper and lower limb(s) | Other fall to lower level 21 to 25 feet |
An employee was erecting a hanging scaffold onboard a ship. While traversing across a lattice girder, the employee fell 25 feet to the concrete surface below, suffering a broken wrist, shattered left ankle, and fractured right ankle. | |||||
2019-09-04 | Woodward | Oklahoma | Edge Services, Inc. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
An employee's hand was inside a derrick girder when his hand was struck and fractured by the rig's top drive. | |||||
2018-08-06 | Montgomery | Alabama | Hirschfeld Industries Bridge LLC | Multiple face locations | Struck by discharged object or substance |
An employee was blasting a girder outside when he stopped to refill his blasting pot. As he opened the door/lid, sand and debris released under pressure and struck his face and eyes. A blasting hood was not worn at the time of the incident. | |||||
2018-05-15 | Vinemont | Alabama | H & R Industrial Contractors Inc | Multiple face locations | Other jump to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was preparing girder #2 to be raised from the ground and put in position with girder #1. He was standing on top of girder #2, which was approximately 9 feet high, when girder #1 rolled over and fell. He heard the noise and jumped from girder #2 to avoid being struck. He fell and hit his head, suffering a left eye bruise and multiple facial fractures. | |||||
2018-04-09 | Berlin Center | Ohio | Ohio Structures , Inc. | Brain | Fall, slip, trip |
While securing a load on a tractor trailer, an employee tripped on the girder and fell to the ground, suffering head trauma. | |||||
2018-02-26 | Montgomery | Alabama | Hirschfeld Industries Bridge, LLC | Arm(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
An employee was moving a crane into place to pick up a girder when the hook hit the girder, causing it to fall and hit the employee's right arm. | |||||
2017-05-03 | Houston | Texas | HMT Pasadena Tank Corporation | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was blasting a girder for a petroleum tank that was stationed on a trailer in a blasting booth. He slipped on grit that was on the surface of the girder and fell about 40 inches to the ground on his left side, breaking ribs and injuring his internal organs. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2017-04-04 | Toledo | Ohio | Barton Malow | Pelvis | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was moving a girder and was pinched between a girder and a piece of steel resulting in a broken pelvis. | |||||
2016-09-28 | Tampa | Florida | Archer Western Construction | Skull | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was operating an aerial lift to torque the bolts on a connection point of the steel girder to a bridge. His head was pinched between the aerial lift control panel cover and the bottom of the steel girder above him. He suffered a laceration to his right ear and a skull fracture, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2016-09-13 | Little Rock | Arkansas | Lexicon, Inc | Lower leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was operating an overhead crane. He was moving the overhead trolley into position over the load by trolleying toward his position. The hook of a rigging chain caught on the flange of an I-beam girder to be moved, knocking the 4,600 lb. girder over onto him. The flange of the girder struck his lower left leg, causing a compound fracture just above the ankle. | |||||
2016-02-09 | Birmingham | Alabama | BRASFIELD & GORRIE | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was working on top of a steel girder when he stepped down to a concrete bend that was approximately 30 inches beneath the girder and diagram. While climbing down, the employee's retractable locked up, causing the employee to lose his balance, slip, and fall against the girder and diagram, fracturing his left leg. | |||||
2015-04-29 | Mechanicsburg | Pennsylvania | Your Building Centers, Incorporated | Multiple body parts | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee was delivering roof trusses to a new residential home site. The delivery truck bed was on an angle allowing the trusses to slide off the truck bed. A wooden girder came off the top of the stack striking the employee in the back and right foot. The employee had broken ribs and a broken right foot. |