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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

US Foods Port Orange DC.

Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at US Foods Port Orange DC., 5911 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., TAMPA, FLORIDA 33619 on — Fractures, affecting the face, unspecified.

An employee was cranking down the landing gear of his trailer. The gear handle struck him in the face, breaking a bone on the right side.

Hospitalized Face, unspecified Trailers

InterCon Construction, Inc.

A crew was pulling a 4-inch plastic gas pipe off a reel and straightening it for installation. The injured employee stepped up on the trailer to cut the last band holding the pipe in the coil on the reel. As he turned to step off the trailer, the end of the pipe rotated and sprung out of the cage surrounding the coil, striking the employee on the side of the head and knocking him off of the trailer into the roadway. The employee suffered head trauma that required hospitalization.

RAVA Construction, LLC

An employee and a co-worker were performing a pick inside a clear well. They rigged the skid pan that was full of broken concrete. When lifting, the load began to swing toward a wall. The employee tried to stop the skid pan from swinging and was struck by the pan, resulting in fractures to their left hip and wrist.

Stein, LLC

The employee had just completed refueling a lattice crane that was breaking up material and was winding the fuel hose back into the fuel truck when he was struck by the catwalk/stairs of the crane. The employee was hospitalized with a laceration to his backside, possible internal bleeding, and a broken hip.

7 Site & Utility, LLC

An employee was fusing 10-inch black rubber utility pipes together using a pipe fusion machine and could not get the pipes to set correctly. The employee used a nylon strap attached to an excavator to lift one side of a pipe off a steel plate. As his hand was between two pipes, the pipes came back together, partially amputating two of his fingers.

Sterling Steel Company, LLC

An employee was lifting four bags of a lime blend weighing approximately 10,000 pounds using a crane. The load swung and pinned the employee against a structural I-beam, resulting in fractures to the hip and pelvis.

Kitchen Fresh Foods Inc

An employee was cleaning a depositor machine to setup for a new product run. His right index finger was caught by moving parts in the depositor machine and the fingertip was partially amputated without bone loss.

Dietz & Watson Inc.

An employee was under a label machine, working to remove a jammed label. The machine partially amputated her left index finger at the first knuckle.

Heartland Coca-Cola Bottling Company LLC

An employee was operating an electric pallet jack. While standing beside the equipment, the pallet jack lurched forward, pinning the employee's leg against racking. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured right ankle.

Walmart, Inc.

An employee was on a top stock cart, moving items on shelving on the sales floor. The employee fell and suffered a broken left ankle. The employee was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Walmart, Inc.

An employee was using a walkie stacker when the merchandise on it shifted and fell onto him. He suffered a head injury and a broken left leg that required surgery. He was hospitalized.

DRIFTWOOD NURSERY & LANDSCAPING, INC

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.

Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.

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.

Envelope Seal Insulation, Inc

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.

Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida

An employee was operating an agricultural tractor during sugarcane harvesting. The employee sustained a lumbar sprain due to vibration or motion from the tractor.

Air-flo/Erwood Heating & Air Conditioning

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.