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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

A-1 STEEL ERECTORS, INC.

Other jump to lower level, unspecified · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at A-1 STEEL ERECTORS, INC., River Rental Tools, BELLE CHASSE, LOUISIANA 70037 on — Fractures, affecting the heel(s).

An employee was on a ladder to remove an electrical box. When he opened the box, he was shocked and jumped off the ladder to the ground. He suffered two broken heels.

Hospitalized Heel(s) Ladders, unspecified

A-1 STEEL ERECTORS, Inc

An employee fell from a forklift basket and fractured both forearms. The employee also sustained a left knee fracture and facial fractures. Fall protection was not worn at the time.

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FEDEX

An employee was crossing over a sorting belt and jumped down onto the catwalk next to the belt. The employee sustained a right ankle fracture and dislocation.

Integrital Edge, Inc.

On November 7, 2023, at 6:00 PM, an employee was getting off a roof at the end of the work day. He missed a step and then jumped from the ladder to the ground sustaining a fractured ankle.

CLW, Inc.

An employee was on the table of a machine. She went to jump down from the table and fractured her lower leg on the ground. The employee was hospitalized.

Rowdy Transport LLC

An employee was loading a flatbed trailer when a forklift bumped into the trailer. A wheelset began to roll in his direction and the employee jumped off the trailer to avoid it. The wheelset caught him on the leg and he landed on his shoulder on the ground. He sustained a laceration below the left kneecap and a dislocated shoulder.

Rigaku Americas Corporation

An employee jumped off the loading dock to assist a package delivery driver who fell. He sustained an ankle fracture that required surgery.

Foundation Steel, LLC

An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.

Red Dot Corporation

An employee was attempting to lift a steel beam from a horizontal, stacked position to a vertical position using a crane. They had placed two hooks on the east side of the beam on the flange. As the employee was hoisting the crane, the beam began to shift and pulled the employee forward onto the stack. When the material shifted, the hooks released and the material fell, pinning the employee between the two beams. The employee was hospitalized with soft tissue contusions on their proximal right thigh and interior left thigh.

Cornell & Company, Inc.

An employee was standing on the surface of a steel beam about two feet wide. He slipped and fell backward, landing on the concrete ground about 20 feet below. The employee sustained a broken pelvis.

K Constructor, LLC

An employee was unloading a rebar delivery from a flatbed, 19-wheel trailer. The employee rigged the load with wire rope chokers. The load was picked up 3-4 feet above the trailer deck by a crane. The load began to swing and the employee grabbed onto it to prevent it from being pushed off the trailer deck. The crane continued to lift the load, and the employee let go so the crane did not lift him to the third story. The employee fell approximately 12 feet to the ground below, resulting in a back injury and fractured vertebrae.

Bowman Steel, LLC

An employee was attaching a steel angle plate weighing (approximately 200 pounds) to the end of a structural member (5,000 pounds) and was supported by dunnage. The dunnage was a crane mat (11 inches tall) with a 4x6 board on top of it and it supported five identical members. The main piece was 30.75 feet long, 37.25 feet tall, and 1 food wide. As the employee slid the piece of metal on top of the member to begin attaching it, the entire member began to tip over. The employee went to stop the main piece from tipping over and it landed on his ankle, fracturing it.

Kisatchie Midnight Express

A driver was exiting his vehicle outside the plant gate when his foot slipped on the top step of the truck. He fell to the ground, landed on his left hip and elbow. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip/femur.

CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital

A security employee was responding to an urgent call from staff regarding a violent patient. The employee tripped and fell on the floor outside of the stairwell. The employee sustained a closed head injury, contusion of the cerebrum without loss of consciousness, and a closed fracture of the distal end of the right radius.

Jean Simpson Personnel Services, Inc.

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.

Calvary Industries Inc

An employee was walking on a sidewalk and stubbed his toe on an elevated portion of concrete, causing him to trip and fall. The employee's right knee was dislocated.