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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

LUIS A. AYALA COLON & SUCCESSORS, INC.

Other fall to lower level, unspecified · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at LUIS A. AYALA COLON & SUCCESSORS, INC., Building 1211, Road 28, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00918 on — Fractures, affecting the shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e).

An employee was operating a yard truck. The truck cabin was lifted by a crane and the employee fell out, landing on the hard concrete below and suffering a broken collarbone and multiple hematomas.

Hospitalized Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) Cranes, unspecified

Luis A. Ayala Colon Successors, Inc.

An employee driving a yard truck was parking the container when the container began to overturn, causing the cabin to bounce several times with the employee inside. He was hospitalized with three broken ribs, internal bleeding in his liver and head, and bruises on his face and head. He was hospitalized.

LUIS A. AYALA COLON & SUCCESSORS, INC.

An employee was driving a truck transporting a 40-foot container. The employee was making a turn when the container fell sideways and the truck overturned. The employee sustained a broken right femur inside the cab.

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Providence Place Cinemas 16 and IMAX

An employee was fixing ceiling tiles while working from a ladder when they fell to the floor and sustained a hip fracture.

DC Janitorial & Cleaning of Pensacola, Inc.

An employee was on an A-frame ladder retrieving materials from a shelf. He slipped and fell and his leg got caught in the ladder rungs, breaking his left tibia.

The Boldt Company

An employee was unloading materials from a flatbed trailer when they fell from the trailer and landed on the ground. The employee sustained a fractured left leg.

HD Supply Facilities Maintenance

An employee was unloading appliances at a customer location for delivery. The employee was moving a water heater to be placed on the liftgate when he stepped backward and fell to the ground. The employee sustained rib and back injuries.

Freedom Solar LLC

An employee was coming down a portable ladder when they slipped and fell to the ground, resulting in a right forearm fracture.

Pathfinder Services LLC

While preparing to install a new spool piece for a vapor and spent sulfuric acid line, an employee was working to ensure there was no residual product or pressure in the line before removing the 6-inch hose. The valve was cracked, and some spent acid still in the line sprayed out. The employee was standing off to the side and at a distance, but was still contacted by the hot acid, resulting in corrosive and thermal burns to their upper torso and mid-thighs of both legs.

Virginia International Gateway Terminals, LLC

An employee was driving a utility tractor rig when it struck the rear trailer of another utility tractor rig, which was traveling in the opposite direction. The glancing impact caused damage to the cab, and he sustained a laceration on right side of his face, a cervical fracture, two fractured left ribs, and a pelvic fracture. The employee was hospitalized.

AHTNA Marine & Construction

The injured employee was standing by the controls for the electric spud system on the barge, preparing to raise the spuds. Meanwhile, an excavator was moving a mat on the deck. As the excavator swung from port to starboard, it's counterweight struck the injured employee s shoulder, causing them to lose balance and fall against the spud controls. The employee sustained bruises and contusions to their right shoulder and chest.

Evansville Marine Service Inc

An employee was standing on the outside edge of a hopper barge while watching a skid steer push ore for an excavator (with a clamshell bucket) to unload. The excavator was on a work barge. The bucket of the excavator struck the employee and caused a near-amputation of their right arm and fractures of the ulna and radius of the left arm. The right arm required surgery.

WATCO Transloading, LLC

An employee was inspecting a conveyor to see why it was not running. The employee entered the the conveyor motor area, tripped on a piece of angle iron welded to the floor, and fell. The employee sustained a fractured orbital bone.

VA Caribbean Healthcare System

An employee was working with an uncooperative patient when the patient fell onto their arm. The employee sustained two fractures to their arm and required surgery.

VA Caribbean Healthcare System

A nurse was working in the emergency department when they experienced nausea, difficulty breathing, and a cough due to chemical fumes. The employee was hospitalized.

VETERANS ADMINISTRATION MEDICAL CENTER

An employee was using a table saw to make wooden door stoppers when the wood kicked back and the blade caught part of their left hand, impacting two fingers and amputating one finger. The saw was unguarded at the time of the incident.

WSP USA Services, Inc

At about 1:20 p.m. on September 26, 2022, an employee was inspecting a house that was being remodeled when he fell through an opening on the second floor where stairs were going to be constructed. He struck some scaffolding and landed on the first floor. He suffered injuries to the right wrist, right elbow, left leg/knee, neck, and mid- to lower back. He also suffered five broken left-side ribs and bruised/collapsed lungs.

Luis A. Ayala Colon Successors, Inc.

An employee driving a yard truck was parking the container when the container began to overturn, causing the cabin to bounce several times with the employee inside. He was hospitalized with three broken ribs, internal bleeding in his liver and head, and bruises on his face and head. He was hospitalized.