Performance Contractors, Inc.

An employee was leaning down to install conduit. When he stood up, a 2-inch all-thread rod caught and lacerated his left eyelid.

An employee was removing a 24" OD actuator valve that weighed 10,000 pounds from a structure on the fifth floor using a lattice crane. During the lift, the valve became hung up on the permanent handrail and their left thumb was caught between the valve and the handrail. The employee sustained a partial amputation of the thumb.

A crew was using a chain fall system to rig up a hard stop (metal structural support weighing 695 lbs.). The injured employee was guiding it into position. The hard stop shifted and their right hand was caught between the suspended hard stop and the adjacent structural wall, resulting in fractured ring and little fingers.

An employee was walking back from the tool room through the scaffolding material storage area. The employee's pant leg got caught on one of the 8-foot long scaffold planks that was in a scaffold rack. The employee tripped on the scaffold plank and fell forward, landing on his left elbow. The employee sustained a compound fracture to his left arm above the elbow and was hospitalized.

A crew was using rope to move a 24" diameter blind flange from the receiving deck of elevation 4 to a lower location so it could be more easily accessed by a crane. The rope broke and the blind flange fell 15 inches to the receiving deck of elevation 3, landing on the injured employee's feet. Both feet were fractured.

An employee was walking to their truck to look for a lid. When they stepped between the truck and a dock plate, they sustained a knee injury that required surgery.

An employee was standing on plant bed timbers, using a powered hand trimmer to trim the shrubs in the plant bed. The timber gave way, breaking into several pieces. The employee lost balance and fell with the trimmer in his hand. He suffered a severe laceration to the right wrist and hand.

A mail carrier slipped on ice and sustained a strain that required hospitalization.

An employee was loading phosphoric acid onto a rail car and preparing to secure the rail car for transport. While repositioning the loadout spout to secure it back to the drip pan holster on the dock, the spout contacted the handrail of the rail car, causing the employee to lose balance. The employee stepped back and their right foot entered the opening for the rail car, causing him to twist/pivot on his left leg. The employee's lower left leg was fractured.

On November 14, 2023, an employee was receiving a delivery from a truck when some of the merchandise fell from the truck s lift and struck him. He then fell to the ground and his head struck the sidewalk, resulting in an injury that required hospitalization.

An employee was fixing a broken purlin at a worksite when they fell from the framing to the concrete floor approximately 19 feet below. The employee sustained brain bleeding and fractures to their face, vertebrae, and wrists.

Employees were removing scaffolding that was used to repair an ion exchange tank. The line was undergoing the regen process when a piece of scaffold struck a PVC pipe that transported hydrochloric acid (HCl). The injured employee was placing material inside a scaffold rack when he was sprayed in the face with HCl and sustained chemical burns to his eyes, face, chest, right arm, and left leg.

An employee was moving a ramming machine to a staging area. While using the controls on the side of the machine, there was a sudden heavy rainfall causing the equipment to slide. The ramming machine tipped over and caught the employee against the ground. The employee sustained a fracture to the right side of their pelvis and was hospitalized.

The injured employee was training a new employee on a dough machine. She went to show where the batter comes from and her right index fingertip was cut. The employee sustained an amputation to the fingertip. The machine was not guarded at the time of the incident.

An employee was operating a roller machine on a dirt slope when the machine hit a bump and fell onto it's side. While trying to get free of the falling machine, the employee's legs were pinned by the top bar of the cage. The employee was hospitalized and his left leg was amputated. He also sustained fractures to a hand and finger.

After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.

An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.

An employee was inspecting flares processes. The employee received burns to the front side of the body, face and arm from the flares.

An employee was removing plastic material from a production line when the machine cycled and amputated his left index, ring, and little fingers.

An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.