Struck by thrown object-unintentional injury · Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Intrepid Powerboats, Inc., 11700 Belcher Rd., LARGO, FLORIDA 33773
on — Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified, affecting the nonclassifiable.
Final narrative
An employee was cleaning out the loft and tossing down materials. A bag weighing 30 pounds struck another employee that was walking under the loft. She was knocked into the stairs and wooden railings and onto the floor. The injured employee could not move her arms or legs and was hospitalized.
An employee was cutting wood on a table saw. The rotating sawblade caught his glove and pulled in his right hand and fingers, lacerating the index finger and thumb.
The injured employee was moving a cart with three other employees. The cart was holding a fiberglass console. The cart hit the edge of concrete causing the load to shift and fall onto the injured employee's hand. The injured employee was hospitalized with lacerations to the pinky and ring fingers on the left hand.
An employee was detailing a boat. While trying to remove plastic, she fell approximately 6 feet from the boat to the ground, breaking her collarbone, cracking her rib, and injuring her head.
An employee had picked up a piece of steel tubing at each end to throw it into a recycling bin. When the employee threw the tube, it caught on a fixed air pipe. The employee's right hand was caught between the end of the tube and the pipe, and the employee's index finger was broken.
As part of a sidewalk demolition project, the injured employee was loading rocks and concrete by hand into the bucket of a skid steer. A rock thrown by another employee struck the injured employee's left hand, causing a partial amputation of the middle finger.
A temporary employee was picking up a metal bed frame and throwing it in the back of a garbage truck. The bed frame bounced off the truck and struck the left side of the employee's head, resulting in a concussion and a laceration.
An employee was walking on the ground with an inspector when they were struck by a falling temporary guardrail. The employee sustained muscle and ligament tears as well as internal bleeding.
An employee was working as an umpire near second base at a baseball game when they were struck in the head by a baseball thrown from the outfield. The employee sustained a subarachnoid hemorrhage, displaced temporal bone, and nondisplaced fracture of the left zygomatic bone.
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