Stings and venomous bites · Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at SDB Engineers and Constructors, Inc., Bldg K7-188, Crawler mid-field park site, KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA 32899
on — Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
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Final narrative
While prepping a pipeline prior to painting, an employee was bitten on the left middle finger by a rattlesnake. He was hospitalized for treatment.
An employee was working on a roof and fell through a skylight. He hit his head and body and was hospitalized with head and back injuries. He was wearing fall protection at the time.
An employee was emptying and cleaning a trash container when he noticed a bite on his ribcage. The employee was hospitalized for a poisonous spider bite.
An employee was working an investigation. He pulled a trash can from a suspect s house and was bitten by fire ants. On the way back to the office the employee developed hives and went into anaphylactic shock. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was on a 12-foot extension ladder while painting the wall and soffit area of a pavilion less than 6 feet off the ground. The employee was using a sprayer when he fell off ladder and landed on his arm on the dirt clay ground. The employee sustained a dislocated elbow and fractures to his right arm and wrist that included an open fracture. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.
An employee was blasting a water tower. They fell approximately 60 feet off a suspended scaffold and sustained broken vertebrae, a compound fracture of the tibia, a fractured heel, and a rupture to their liver. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was sandblasting paint from a water tower when the blasting media sprayed across their forearm, resulting in an elbow injury that required hospitalization.
An employee was working from a boom lift, painting wood trim at a second-story roof level. The lift drove over an unmarked dry well, tipped, and catapulted the employee to the ground. The employee sustained fractures to their heels and vertebrae. Fall protection was not being worn at the time of the incident.
On October 2, 2025, an employee was ascending a ladder attached to a scaffold structure approximately 10 feet high. While climbing up, he lost his grip on a rung and fell to the ground, landing on his shoulder. He was hospitalized with fractures to his collarbone and shoulder.
An employee was helping a coworker transport a tall palm tree with a mini skid steer. The employee was severely shocked by a high-voltage electrical wire above the ground.
An employee was retrieving a Christmas tree from a shelf using a ladder. He missed a step and fell to the concrete floor. He sustained injury to his head and wrist.
An employee was operating an agricultural tractor during sugarcane harvesting. The employee sustained a lumbar sprain due to vibration or motion from the tractor.
An employee was moving a 3-ton condensing unit, strapped down on a dolly, out of a garage. The strap broke, causing the employee to fall backward onto the brick pavered driveway. The employee suffered injury to a spinal ligament in the neck.