Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-05-15 | Cochranton | Pa | Vitro Flat Glass, LLC | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was cleaning an area between silos/platforms. The employee stepped onto an area between silos and fell 10 feet onto enclosed conveyors below. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs and a fractured/dislocated shoulder. | |||||
2021-02-05 | Glassboro | Nj | Demountable Concepts Inc. | Leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
Four employees were attempting to modify an approximately 10 ft. high by 10 ft. long non-assembly single piece metal scaffold system on wheels and lay it on its side in order to replace 2 x 8 wooden platforms. The scaffold kicked out while the employees were tipping it over and the scaffold fell onto an employee's left leg resulting in a compound fracture. | |||||
2020-07-21 | Springdale | Arkansas | Rio Verde Framing LLC | Multiple trunk locations | Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet |
An employee had been conducting framing work. The employee was laying plywood to a window opening and was leaning against the guardrail. The guardrail gave way and he fell from the third floor. He struck a beam on the second floor and landed between two concrete platforms in the grass. The employee sustained multiple injuries including a compressed fracture with retropulsion at the L2 vertebra, a pelvic fracture, and a non-displaced sacral alar fracture. | |||||
2020-06-22 | Houston | Texas | Alamo Concrete Products Company | Upper and lower limb(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was climbing a ladder between platforms on a ready-mix plant while holding a hose in one hand. The employee then slipped and fell approximately 10 feet from the ladder to the platform below, fracturing the right knee and elbow. | |||||
2020-01-10 | North Charleston | South Caroli | Hi Trak Staffing, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Bites and stings |
An employee was stung by an insect while working aboard a ship in the shipyard constructing platforms, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2018-05-17 | Robins A F B | Georgia | U.S. Department of the Air Force | Nonclassifiable | Fall through surface or existing opening 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was attempting to step from a step platform to a mobile telescoping stand. There was a 21-inch gap between the two platforms and the employee fell 8 feet down to the platform below, suffering multiple body injuries. | |||||
2017-07-08 | Flushing | New York | Skanska Walsh | Lumbar region | Overexertion in lifting-single episode |
Two employees were stacking and organizing wooden temporary work platforms on dunnage when the injured employee heard a pop in his lower back while lifting a platform. The employee suffered two herniated discs in his lower back. |