| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-21 | Galena Park | Tx | Southeast Texas Industry Services | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was preparing a skid for transportation. The handrails had been removed, and the employee was tying them down, when a rope broke. The employee fell backward to the ground about 6 feet below, suffering broken ribs. | |||||
| 2021-06-21 | Houma | La | LASHIP, LLC | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee was installing handrails on a scaffold. While changing position, she fell, landing on the ground 14 feet below and suffering several broken ribs, a punctured lung, and a non-displaced vertebra fracture. | |||||
| 2020-05-05 | Allen | Texas | Rio Verde Framing LLC | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet |
| An employee was installing exterior handrails on the fourth floor of a multi-family residential building under construction when the employee fell approximately 40 feet to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with leg and back injuries. | |||||
| 2020-01-27 | Middletown | Delaware | Enterprise Masonry Corporation | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was standing on the second landing of a recently poured concrete staircase, cleaning mortar droppings from handrails, when the employee lost balance and slipped/fell down six concrete steps. | |||||
| 2019-01-20 | Pearsall | Texas | SPN Well Services | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was attaching a pipe wrench to a saver sub in order to torque it to a power swivel. Once the pipe was attached, the power swivel unexpectedly began turning, causing the wrench to spin around and push the employee into the handrails on the rig floor. The employee suffered four broken ribs and internal bleeding. | |||||
| 2018-08-20 | Lumber City | Georgia | Telfair Forest Products, LLC | Foot (feet) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was attempting to clear a jam on the back side of a shaver box when he stepped over the handrails and slipped, coming into contact with the shaver knives. His right foot was amputated and he was hospitalized. The shaver heads were not locked out at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2018-07-23 | Annandale | New Jersey | Furino & Sons, Inc | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee was stripping concrete forms in a lube oil sump. The temporary 2x4 handrails failed, and the employee fell 12 feet to a lower level, fracturing ribs and injuring parts of his spine. | |||||
| 2018-04-03 | Big Lake | Texas | DCS All American, LLC | Buttock(s) | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee was working on a centrifuge on top of a centrifuge stand. The employee lost footing while stepping down from the centrifuge and fell backward into the handrails. The hand rails gave out, causing the employee to fall approximately 12 to 15 feet to the ground. The employee suffered bruised muscles and a pinched nerve in the buttocks. | |||||
| 2018-03-30 | Topeka | Kansas | Peak to Peak Engineered Railings LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was feeding handrails into a bending machine when his gloved right hand went into the machine, amputating the first digit of one of his fingers above the knuckle. | |||||
| 2018-01-21 | New Milford | Pennsylvania | Falcon Drilling Company, LLC. | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
| On January 21, 2018, an employee was rigging down rig stairs to be picked up by a mobile equipment telehandler. While the telehandler was scoping out to pick up the rig stairs by the handrails, the forks bounced and struck the employee on his left shoulder. He suffered pain and numbness on the right side of his body, as well as inflamed bulging discs. | |||||
| 2018-01-03 | Coyanosa | Texas | Sendero Drilling Company, LLC | Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was installing handrails on a scaffold when he fell approximately 10 feet to the ground. He was hospitalized with a fractured neck. | |||||
| 2017-09-06 | Wildwood | Georgia | Koch Foods of Chattanooga Truck Shop | Head and trunk | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was standing on an inclined mobile ladder using a pipe wrench to remove a shaft from an auger on a feed haul trailer. The wrench slipped off the shaft, causing him to lose balance and stumble backward down the ladder. He was unable to grab the handrails on the ladder to stop his fall, and he landed on his tailbone on the floor. His head then fell back and hit the floor. He suffered a lower back contusion and a head laceration. | |||||