| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-01 | Hollis | Ny | Cobalt Mechanical Inc | Multiple body parts | Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet |
| When an employee leaned on a window opening with guardrails, the rails broke and the employee fell through the opening to the driveway about 12 feet below. The employee suffered injuries to the neck, back, ribs, and aorta. | |||||
| 2021-03-22 | Pflugerville | Tx | Shambaugh & Son, L.P. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee was descending a concrete stairway with wire rope guardrails. He began to fall and grabbed the guardrail, which gave way. He fell to the concrete floor about 15 feet below, suffering a left-side impact that caused an eye socket fracture and other fractures. He was hospitalized, requiring treatment including a rod in his back. | |||||
| 2020-09-09 | Ocean Springs | Ms | Phoenix Labor Group LLC | Jaw, chin | Fall on water vehicle |
| An employee was helping to put guardrails around a barge when he fell onto the steel floor, breaking his jaw bone and busting his lip. | |||||
| 2020-02-28 | Houston | Texas | Roy Jorgensen Associates, Inc. | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle on side of road |
| An employee was part of a crew installing guardrails on the side of the highway. The employee was knocked down by a concrete truck and the truck ran over his toes. The employee suffered toe fractures that required surgery. | |||||
| 2019-08-19 | Middleton | Wisconsin | Livesey Painting, Inc. | Head and trunk | Other fall to lower level |
| On August 19, 2019, an employee was working on a baker's scaffold while mudding drywall inside a commercial building. At approximately 11:20 a.m., the employee was standing on the scaffold and using his arms to move the scaffold across the floor when he lost balance and fell over the guardrails, landing on the concrete floor below. He fractured seven ribs and his skull. | |||||
| 2019-07-26 | Houston | Texas | Champion Insulation, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 26 to 30 feet |
| An employee was installing insulation into the cavity of a wall. A wooden guardrail system was installed around the opened area. The employee was leaning over the guardrails when one topsail separated, allowing the employee to fall from the fourth to the second level floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured pelvis and right arm. | |||||
| 2018-08-29 | Baton Rouge | Louisiana | MCINNIS BROTHERS CONSTRUCTION, INC. | Thigh(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was working on a raised platform, tightening a pipe with a pipe wrench. As he was pushing the wrench forward, the wrench slipped, which carried him forward and caused him to fall approximately 3 feet. He fractured his right femur. The platform did not have guardrails at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 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. | |||||
| 2018-07-05 | El Paso | Texas | LaborMax Staffing | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was running conduit below conveyor belts when he went onto a platform and fell approximately 10 feet, breaking his left wrist, five to six right-side ribs, and his right-side pelvis. He was hospitalized. The platform did not have guardrails at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2018-06-19 | Cranston | Rhode Island | Greene Construction Inc. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was installing shingle siding from a scaffold when he fell through the guardrails to the ground below, fracturing his vertebrae, pelvis, and arm. | |||||
| 2018-06-07 | Mc David | Florida | Highway Specialties, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was installing guardrails on the highway and was hospitalized for heat stress/exhaustion. | |||||
| 2018-05-22 | West Palm Beach | Florida | AHS Construction LLC | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was securing a horizontal form when the employee stepped away from the work platform and onto an exposed area of the building's leading edge. The employee then fell to the ground, suffering potential body fractures. Wooden guardrails were in place at the time. | |||||
| 2018-04-20 | Mobile | Alabama | VT Mobile Aerospace Engineering, Inc. | Lumbar region | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was conducting maintenance work in the cargo area of an aircraft. The employee was leaning on the guardrails of the elevated work platform when the hinge on the guardrail failed and the employee fell approximately 4 feet, landing on a work bench below and injuring his lower back. | |||||
| 2017-09-29 | Greenwich | Connecticut | Installed Building Products LLC | Nonclassifiable | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment 11 to 15 feet |
| On 9/29/2017, an employee was spraying insulation to the interior walls of an attic. The employee was standing on a 2 x 6 plank, which had been set on the guardrails of a floor opening, when the plank cracked and the employee fell approximately 14 feet to the lower level. The employee sustained a head contusion and fractured vertebrae. | |||||
| 2017-09-27 | Denver | Colorado | RK MECHANICAL, INC. | Multiple body parts | Fall through surface or existing opening 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was attempting to move two fittings that were blocking an elevated walkway when he tripped and fell through the guardrails and down eight stories onto a portable toilet. He then rolled onto the ground. He broke his leg and pelvis and dislocated his hip. | |||||
| 2017-08-29 | Fayetteville | Arkansas | Tyson Foods, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was removing boxed chips on a moving conveyor when his left index finger went into an opening between the guardrails, amputating his fingertip. | |||||
| 2017-06-21 | Savannah | Georgia | Pioneer Construction, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Fall through surface or existing opening 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was installing wooden guardrails around a newly cut stairway opening with a coworker on the second floor when part of the floor collapsed. The employee fell approximately 10 feet to the first floor concrete flooring, fracturing the left shin and injuring the right knee and back. | |||||
| 2017-06-05 | Austin | Texas | Advance Concrete Surfacing | Wrist(s) | Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet |
| An employee was installing flashing on a concrete deck floor to waterproof it. The employee leaned on a guardrail while attempting to reach a section of work just outside the balcony guardrails. As he leaned on the guardrail, it gave way and he fell approximately 20 feet to the ground floor, breaking his left wrist and requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2017-04-19 | Atlanta | Georgia | Mid South Floor Systems | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet |
| While installing a building wrap to waterproof a balcony, an employee grabbed onto the 2x4 guardrails and fell 15 feet with the rails to the lower level before falling an additional 20 feet to the ground level. The employee suffered a broken back and twisted spine. | |||||
| 2017-04-13 | Branson | Missouri | PRO FINISH PAINTS, LLC. | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level |
| On 4-13-17, two employees were working in an aerial lift when it ran over a septic tank cover. The cover then collapsed, causing one employee to be catapulted out of the lift and the other to slam into the guardrails of the lift. | |||||
| 2017-03-02 | Chesterfield | Missouri | Builder's Bloc | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet |
| Employees were building the stairs to the loft area in a barn. The injured employee was carrying a piece of housewrap in front of him and fell 14 feet through the stairs that were under construction. The stairs did not have guardrails at the time. The employee suffered three broken ribs, a fractured hip and internal bleeding. His spleen had to be removed. | |||||
| 2017-03-01 | Cotulla | Texas | Texas Electronic Systems Specialists, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Struck bump, hole, rough terrain on driving surface, nonroadway |
| An employee drove a high lift single operator cherry picker from the roadway onto the soft earth of a drainage ditch to avoid oncoming traffic. The uneven surface caused the employee to be thrown around the basket. The employee was wearing a safety harness and was not ejected, but received a severe laceration on his lower leg from contact with the basket guardrails. | |||||
| 2017-02-15 | Winter Park | Florida | Walk on Wood of Central Florida, Inc. | Brain | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee was operating a floor buffer on the second floor when he stepped back and fell from the upper level, which had no guardrails in place. He suffered a head injury and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-01-09 | Orlando | Florida | D.A.M.1, Inc. | Thigh(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee on a baker's scaffold reached over to tie a wire lath when the scaffold tipped and he fell 5 feet 6 inches to the ground, fracturing his left femur. The scaffold had guardrails and the wheels were locked at the time. | |||||
| 2016-06-13 | Tallahassee | Florida | CP Buckner Steel Erection, Inc. | Scalp | Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was working from a 19-foot electronic scissor lift (set at 11-feet high) to cut a large structural brace using a torch. As the brace was cut loose, it struck the top of the scissor lift and fell onto plastic storage containers. The back of the employee's head hit the scissor lift guardrails and was lacerated, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2016-01-22 | San Antonio | Texas | Advanced Concrete Surfaces, LLC | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee fell from a second floor breezeway to the ground floor of a new apartment complex while pulling a concrete hose, requiring hospitalization. Guardrails were not in place at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2015-09-26 | Miami | Oklahoma | J-M FARMS, INC. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| While attempting to retrieve a piece of plastic from a conveyor, a machine that was dumping a mushroom bin onto the conveyor hit the employee. The employee got caught between the guardrails and the dumper, puncturing the employee's lungs and breaking an arm and two ribs. | |||||
| 2015-06-24 | Houston | Texas | Brother's Painting Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment 26 to 30 feet |
| An employee climbed onto a pump-jack scaffold to finish some caulking work (26 feet above ground) on an apartment building. After finishing the area where he was caulking, he attempted to climb down from the pump-jack scaffold by placing his feet on the top safety rail of a third floor balcony guardrail. The safety guard rails were two temporary balcony guardrails made up of 2 X 4's placed across the balcony's edge. The top safety rail collapsed, and the employee fell to the ground between the | |||||
| 2015-04-15 | Altamonte Springs | Florida | Gale Insulation Winter Park | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee fell 8 to 9 feet from a second floor while sweeping debris. The employee leaned against the guardrail to look down; the guardrails failed, causing him to fall. | |||||
| 2015-04-06 | Platteville | Colorado | Xtreme Drilling and Coil Services | Head | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| On April 6, 2015, an employee working on a rig sustained a head injury that required stitches after falling approximately 5.5 feet from the top of the scavenger tank/platform to the matting board. Guardrails on top of the platform were removed at the time. The employee was hospitalized overnight. | |||||
| 2015-02-03 | Greenville | Mississippi | Producers Rice Mill, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| Worker climbed a mobile ladder-platform; he then climbed over the ladder-platform guardrails onto a chain-driven paddle conveyor. He was trying to reach a gasket on a pipe feeding the conveyor. He was wearing a hard hat, but was not wearing personal fall-arrest equipment. As he tried to reach for the pipe gasket, he lost his balance and fell more than 11 feet to the concrete floor below, landing on his back along with the pipe. He was taken by ambulance to Northwest MS Medical Center-Greenville | |||||