| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-17 | Palm Bay | Fl | Atlantic Southern Paving and Sealcoating, LLC | Multiple body parts | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was shoveling hot asphalt while standing behind a paver. He collapsed and fell face down into the asphalt sustaining burns to the face, ears, and both hands. | |||||
| 2021-07-27 | Sioux Falls | Sd | Henry Carlson Company | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was operating a paver outside when she became ill due to the heat. She was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-07-06 | Stanton | Tx | FNF Construction, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was working alongside the paver in the heat and direct sun. Around 4:00 p.m., the employee began to feel ill. The employee was hospitalized for heat exhaustion. | |||||
| 2021-06-01 | Denver | Co | Cutler Repaving, Inc. | Hand(s) and arm(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was troubleshooting the preheater of a repaver and sustained burns to the left hand and arms. | |||||
| 2021-05-22 | Columbus | Oh | Charter Communications, LLC | Arm(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was descending a ladder that was positioned against a gutter. The ladder slid on the gutter and the employee fell onto concrete pavers about 10 feet below, landing on and breaking their arm. | |||||
| 2021-05-12 | Schertz | Tx | Asphalt Inc., LLC | Thigh(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
| An employee was laying hot asphalt during road construction and was standing on the rear catwalk of a laydown asphalt paver operating the controls. A subcontractor dump truck backed into the paver and pinned the employee between the paver controls and the dump truck. The employee suffered bruises and internal bleeding to both upper legs. | |||||
| 2021-04-27 | Brooksville | Fl | Fairfield Farms Nurseries Inc | Arm(s) | Struck by object or equipment |
| An employee was directing the loading of pallets of pavers onto a trailer. An object struck the employee, who suffered fractures to his arm. | |||||
| 2021-04-26 | New York | Ny | Alexandria Tile Company Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was installing granite pavers along the platform edge. When the employee stood up from a kneeling position, he lost his balance, and fell about 4 feet 10 inches from the platform to a track bed. He suffered contusions to his right-side ribs, shoulder, and chest, with a possible fracture. | |||||
| 2020-10-09 | Rayland | Oh | Lindy Paving | Multiple body parts | Roadway collision-moving in same direction |
| An employee was operating a paver when the mirror of a passing dump truck caught the seat of the paver as it drove by. The seat twisted and pinned the employee against the control panel, resulting in fractures to the ribs and sternum and a dislocated clavicle. | |||||
| 2020-08-20 | Carlisle | Ny | Suit-Kote Corp. | Fingertip(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was riding on the paver box when their fingers were caught between the guardrail and the mechanical lift on the paver. The employee's left middle and ring fingertips were amputated. | |||||
| 2020-07-15 | College Station | Texas | Larry Young Paving, Inc. | Thigh(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
| An employee was spotting for the operator of a road paver as it was backing up. The employee was struck by the paver and caught against a road roller machine. He sustained injury, including a crushed artery, to the left thigh requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2020-06-10 | New Enterprise | Pennsylvania | New Enterprise Stone & Lime Co. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| After operating a paver screed, an employee became ill and was hospitalized for heat exhaustion. | |||||
| 2020-03-18 | Orlando | Florida | International Tile & Stone, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An equipment operator was reaching to move a paver into a conveyor system when a robotic arm struck him. His left thumb was broken and lacerated and he was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-08-19 | Palm Coast | Florida | Integrity Pressure Cleaning Plus, LLC. | Head and trunk | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee was soft washing the roof of a one-story house when he slipped and fell 12 feet off the roof onto the pavers below. He was hospitalized with three fractures on his mid vertebrae, a bruised left knee, a laceration to the back of his head, and a concussion. | |||||
| 2019-07-17 | Madison | Wisconsin | Payne & Dolan, Inc. | Ankle(s) | Boarding, alighting-excluding slip, trip, fall-single episode |
| On July 17, 2019, an employee was operating an asphalt paver for a road construction company. At approximately 10:00 a.m. the employee was stepping down from a platform on the paver when he rolled and fractured his ankle. | |||||
| 2019-06-21 | Chicora | Pennsylvania | Shields Asphalt Paving | Pelvis | Nonroadway collision with other vehicle |
| An employee was performing paving work and was pinned between the paver the employee was standing on and a roller machine. The employee suffered a fractured pelvis. | |||||
| 2019-05-13 | Pocatello | Idaho | Western Construction, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was using a scraper to clean debris from an asphalt paver when his safety vest became caught on the paver and he was pulled in toward the auger. He was hospitalized with second and third degree burns from the mid-torso to the armpit. The paver was running at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2019-04-04 | West Palm Beach | Florida | Roofing Unlimited and Sheet Metal, Inc. | Upper and lower limb(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was climbing a 16-20 foot extension ladder to secure it. While stepping onto the roof to tie off the ladder, the ladder slipped and the employee fell. The employee landed on paver stones on a walkway and was hospitalized with a broken arm and leg. | |||||
| 2019-02-13 | Bay Lake | Florida | Walt Disney Parks & Resorts | Knee(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping on uneven surface |
| An employee tripped over a paver and fell to the ground resulting in a fractured right knee. | |||||
| 2019-01-17 | Irving | Texas | Austin Road & Bridge | Nonclassifiable | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| A leg from a concrete paver had been removed at the job site and transported to the yard by a material loader. A mechanic truck was used to lift the leg off the loader and place it on the ground. Once on the ground, the leg shifted and the employee was pinned between the leg and a low-boy trailer in the chest and right shoulder area. The employee sustained three broken vertebrae. | |||||
| 2018-09-18 | Brooklyn | Mississippi | DUNN ROADBUILDERS | Leg(s) | Nonroadway collision with other vehicle |
| Two employees were working in a designated paving area. The first employee was operating an asphalt paver while a second employee was walking to the left of the paver, examining the paving, when a publicly owned vehicle veered into the designated paving area and struck the two employees. The first employee suffered fractures to the left leg, while the second employee suffered multiple fractures to the body. | |||||
| 2018-08-28 | Kintnersville | Pennsylvania | Haines & Kibblehouse, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Explosion, n.e.c. |
| An employee was training another employee on how to light the back part of a paver and set his butane torch down on the paver. When the paver was later started, its doors closed on the torch, causing it to bend, be punctured, and blow up, at which point the employee jumped from the paver. He suffered burns to both arms, his nose, and forehead, as well as a possible broken left heel. | |||||
| 2018-07-10 | Clay City | Illinois | HOWELL PAVING INC. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee showed signs of heat stress while operating a paver during a heat wave. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-05-25 | Linville | North Caroli | Bryant Land & Development Industries, Inc. | Multiple lower extremities locations | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area |
| The injured employee was operating part of the paving machine near a roller machine. The roller was being repositioned when it lunged forward instead of reversing. It pinned the injured employee's left leg between the roller and the paver, severely lacerating the leg from the thigh to the top of the ankle. | |||||
| 2017-03-27 | Lubbock | Texas | Daley's Superior Asphalt Mfg. | Fingertip(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was removing the flywheel from a paver when it came off and came down on his right pinky finger, amputating the tip. | |||||
| 2016-09-19 | Batesville | Arkansas | Atlas Asphalt, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was on the back of the paver operating the screed when he started to feel unwell and experienced muscle cramps. He was hospitalized for dehydration. | |||||
| 2016-08-22 | Lubbock | Texas | H Construction Systems Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was cutting one single roofing paver that was not fitting properly at a doorway. He was using a handheld electric saw and the saw slipped and caught the employee's work glove cutting his thumb. | |||||
| 2016-07-27 | Huron | South Dakota | Knife River Midwest, LLC | Multiple lower extremities locations | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in work zone |
| An employee was walking back to the concrete paver when a ready-mix truck backed into him. He was first struck by the chute, and then his lower right leg was run over. His leg broke at the ankle and below the knee, and he suffered a muscle injury. | |||||
| 2016-05-10 | Camp Pendleton | California | ROMERO GENERAL CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION | Upper and lower limb(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| On or about May 10, 2016, an employee was paving a roadway. While stepping off a paver, he fell on the hot asphalt, breaking his leg and burning his arm. | |||||
| 2016-04-06 | Daytona Beach | Florida | Concrete Services, LLC. | Upper and lower limb(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was helping the operator mount the concrete mold to the side of a slip form paver. He took the transport strands off the mold before the operator had secured the mold to keep it from overturning. The concrete form fell onto the employee fracturing his right ring finger and right leg. | |||||
| 2016-03-24 | Springdale | Arkansas | Sharum's Garden Center NWA, Inc. | Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Sudden start or stop, nonroadway |
| An employee was unloading a pallet of pavers from a semi-truck with a tractor. The pallet of pavers shifted forward and fell off the tractor, causing it to jerk backward. The jerking of the tractor caused the neck of the employee to whip back, fracturing his C5 vertebrae. He experienced numbness in both arms and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2015-11-15 | Lakeland | Florida | Tremron Lakeland, LLC | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee suffered several broken vertebrae after being struck by a "cuber" machine while repositioning brick pavers on a board. | |||||
| 2015-11-11 | Orlando | Florida | UPS | Arm(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping on uneven surface |
| An employee was making a delivery at a residence when she tripped over a paver and fell, landing on and fracturing her right arm. | |||||
| 2015-11-11 | Paramus | New Jersey | Crisdel Construction Corp. | Fingertip(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was operating a paver on the parkway when the employee's right index fingertip got caught and amputated (no bone loss) between the screed extension of the paver and the wall of a bridge. | |||||
| 2015-08-25 | Fords | New Jersey | Precision Paving & Concrete | Foot (feet) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| An employee was loading a paver onto a truck. A foot was run over by the paver and may be amputated. | |||||
| 2015-06-03 | Dansville | New York | Suit Kote Corporation | Lower leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in work zone |
| An employee was working as a laborer on a road paving jobsite when his lower left leg was run over by a tire on a Weber machine, which picks up ground-up road surface material and transfers it to a conveyer belt that drops the material into a paver machine. | |||||
| 2015-03-10 | Orange Park | Florida | Verns Insulation & Specialties | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee installing gutters fell off an 8 foot step ladder onto the ground (concrete pavers) below. The employee suffered a fractured hip, which resulted in an overnight stay in the hospital. | |||||
| 2015-01-02 | Woodland Park | New Jersey | PNC Bank | Wrist(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping on uneven surface |
| Employee tripped on a paver and fractured her wrist, requiring hospitalization. | |||||