Stings and venomous bites · Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Manpower, 1005 E Strawbridge Ave, MELBOURNE, FLORIDA 32901
on — Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
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Final narrative
An employee was performing grounds keeping work when his eyeglasses fell to the ground. As he searched for them, a coral snake bit his left-hand middle finger.
A temporary employee was operating a forklift with a dumping attachment. The mast extended in the air during a sharp turn, causing the forklift to tip onto its side. The employee suffered a broken foot.
Employees were stripping a tile floor in preparation to wax it. One of the employees slipped and fell on the wet floor striking his head and sustaining a small laceration. The employee was hospitalized due to a possible head injury.
An employee was stacking pallets and used his left hand to prevent the stack of pallets from falling over. The employee suffered a thumb tip amputation and compound fracture of the left hand.
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.
A temporary employee was testing an electrical starter motor. He was placing tape on the starter while the breaker was not engaged, but the starter sent an arc flash that burned his hands and stomach.
A temporary employee was rigging secondary steel when the steel joist fell to the ground and struck his lower left leg, resulting in fractures to the tibia and fibula.
A temporary employee was helping set up a stage for a concert. The employee was run over by a mobile cart and sustained a toe amputation. The employee was hospitalized.
The injured employee was operating a reach truck and stopped at an intersection within a warehouse. After a brief a conversation, another employee's reach truck accelerated unexpectedly and struck the injured employee's stationary truck crushing his foot. He sustained fractures to his left foot and toes requiring hospitalization and surgery.
A temporary employee was operating a plastic strapping machine on an assembly line. The machine wrapped the employee, causing crushing injuries to their ribs and a kidney. The employee was hospitalized.
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.
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