Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc.

An employee was moving a piece of heavy angle iron to his workstation and suffered a hernia.

On August 5, 2024, an employee was beginning to descend a set of stairs when they mis-stepped and fell down the stairs. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured leg.

An employee was cutting material on a table saw. The material jammed on the saw; when the employee tried to unjam it, the sawblade amputated the tip of his left thumb.

An employee had been removing wooden blocking from a hull in preparation for the hull's departure from the dock. While using a wooden wedge to remove sand from under the blocking, the blocking shifted and the employee's right middle fingertip was amputated.

An employee and his coworker were holding a 3-feet-long pipe that was 4 inches in diameter and approximately 30 pounds to move it inside a ship. As they set the pipe inside the boat, the employee felt a pull in his groin. He was hospitalized and required surgery.

Employees were performing construction work on an esplanade. Three employees were retrieving float stages that were secured alongside a barge and taking them approximately 150' North to a second barge. The float stages were to be loaded with forms and sent under the esplanade to be installed. In order to retrieve the float stages the operation required a boat to pull back the floats to release the tension in the lines (2 each, one at the North end and one at the South end of the floats) due to the flood tide. The boat was positioned South of the float stages. Two employees left the boat and boarded the floats. They tied a line from the boat to the float stages and moved to the lines securing the floats to the barge. One employee was on the South end of the float stages and a second employee was on the North side, each at a line. When the tension was released by the boat, both employees released each line. The platform was also released from the boat to allow for the boat's navigation around some piles. They floated North on the float stages. Once the float stages moved beyond the end of the barge, the float stages turned 90 degrees and were pointing In an east to west orientation, broadside to the current. Once broadside to the current, the current took them North causing them to strike the South end of the barge approximately 150' away. The two employees attempted to push the float stages away from the barge, but were unable to. At this time the third float stage started lifting and pushing the second float stage into the first float stage. The first float stage was pushed in the up and down position (90 degrees vertically with the flat side against the barge) and pinned against the barge, the second float stage came to rest on the first float stage side horizontally (parallel to the water), and the third float stage was also turned and was pushing on the backside of the second float stage. The injured employee's legs were pinned between a float stage (20' x 5') made of timbers and the barge with a steel hull (180' x 60'), resulting in a right tibia and fibula fracture and a left fibula fracture.

An employee was riding in an airboat when it hit a sandbar. He was thrown and hit his head and shoulder on the bow of the boat.

An employee was working from a floating platform to remove a concrete form when a wave in the water caused the platform to rise up above the protective bumpers. His left little finger was then caught between the formwork bolt and the platform, causing a partial amputation of the left little finger.

An employee was in a boat traveling back to a dam when the boat passed through an opened gate. The boat became caught on the gate and tipped over. The employee went underneath the water and suffered an amputation to 1/4 inch of the distal joint of the left ring finger.

Between around 4:30 and 4:45 p.m., two employees were motoring a skiff down a river when the skiff hydroplaned and struck the shoreline. The employees were both injured: one suffered upper body injuries (suspected broken ribs) and a concussion and the other suffered facial and leg injuries. Both were hospitalized.

An employee was hooking up bundled tie-downs with a chain. While he was holding a hook, the other hook was unlocked. This caused the employee's hook to slide down and pinch his right index finger between the chain and the shackle. He suffered an amputation to the fingertip (without bone loss), as well as an open fracture.

An employee was struck by a plasma cutter and suffered a broken left tibia and fibula. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was preparing to bend a flat bar in a brake press. When the machine was jogged, the stock rotated up and crushed his left middle fingertip against the outer frame of the die. The fingertip was amputated.

An employee was cutting metal with a torch. A piece of metal struck the employee's left foot, causing multiple fractures to metatarsal(s). The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was descending a ladder carrying a bag of trash. He fell, landed on the ground about 10 feet below, and suffered fractures to his right hip and pelvis.

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 inspecting a generator whose radiator was leaking. He slipped, and a fan blade in the generator amputated his thumb and index finger.

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.