Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-08-27 | Plainville | Ct | Alo-Cinema One Installers, Inc. | Coccygeal region | Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet |
An employee was installing reinforcing cables to an automated racking system and fell 18 feet from the platform, resulting in a broken tailbone. | |||||
2019-02-04 | Scotia | New York | DIMENSION FABRICATORS, INC. | Hand(s) | Collision between a moving and standing vehicle, nonroadway |
An employee was operating a forklift to move reinforcing steel spirals and backed into a parked flatbed trailer. As the employee tried to free the forklift from the trailer his left hand was crushed between the forklift and the trailer. The employee's hand was fractured and lacerated and the employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2018-08-13 | Atlanta | Georgia | North Perimeter Contractors | Multiple body parts | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was attempting to secure a reinforcing steel cage into place when he was caught between the steel cage and a section of a temporary concrete barrier wall. He suffered a lacerated and fractured left index finger, broken right ankle, and hernia. | |||||
2018-05-25 | Sunny Isles Beach | Florida | Titon Builders Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was standing next to a pile of reinforcing steel. A bundle of the steel slipped off the pile, striking the employee's lower left leg and breaking a bone. | |||||
2015-10-27 | Fort Irwin | California | P T M Rebar Placing | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee fell nine feet from a wall of reinforcing steel rods as he was descending it breaking the right ankle. The employee was hospitalized for surgery to repair the fracture. |