Fall from collapsing structure or equipment less than 6 feet · Cuts, lacerations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Daybrook Fisheries Inc, 136 Daybrook Lane, EMPIRE, LOUISIANA 70050
on — Cuts, lacerations, affecting the arm(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
On October 26, 2020, an employee was using a ladder to clear fishmeal from the cyclone funnel meal feeder on an elevated conveyor. While walking on the conveyor, the employee stepped onto a breaker box that was mounted on a pole alongside the conveyor. The breaker box broke free from it's metal mounting bracket, and the employee fell approximately 5'6" to the floor. The employee's right arm was lacerated by a mounting bracket as he fell. The employee was hospitalized for surgery to close the wound.
Two employees were attempting to remove a metal box from the outside of a building. On employee cut the top two bolts holding the box to the building, so that the bottom two box could act as a fulcrum as the box fell. The other employee was walking the box down, hand over hand, when it fell. Its top left corner struck him in the head, neck, and right shoulder, and he was briefly pinned under the box. He was hospitalized.
An employee turned on a process pump inside a fish processing plant. The pump cap housing blew off causing hot water to forcibly flow out of the pump and strike the employee in multiple areas on the front of his body. As the employee turned away from the hot water, he was struck in multiple areas on the back of his body and knocked to the ground momentarily. Hot water also struck a second employee on the back while running away from the area.
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