Exposure to environmental heat unspecified · Heat stroke, syncope
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at GO-TILT CONSTRUCTION, LLC, 13141 34th St N, CLEARWATER, FLORIDA 33762
on — Heat stroke, syncope, affecting the BODY SYSTEMS .
Final narrative
An employee was making construction wood forms when they lost consciousness. They were hospitalized for heat illness.
An employee was coming down from a shoring scaffold that he was erecting when he lost his footing and fell 10.5 feet to the ground. He was hospitalized with a fractured back.
On or about January 28, 2016 at 8:15 am, an employee performing stripping operations fell approximately 10 feet. The employee sustained a fracture to a thoracic vertebra.
An employee was standing on a six foot folding step ladder assembling wooden forms. The plywood that the ladder was on shifted and the employee fell 18 feet off the side of the building resulting in a back injury.
On 5/26/2015, an employee was on a ladder about 4 to 5 feet from the ground and close to the trash chute. When he was reaching over to secure plywood, he lost balance and fell injuring his left leg and wrist.
At about 10:30 a.m. on August 7, 2025, a warehouse technician working for Tnemec Company, Inc., began sweating profusely a half-hour into their shift. The employee was using a forklift to move staged pallets of paint to a shrink-wrapper, shrink-wrap the pallets, and then load the pallets onto a truck using a forklift. The employee became ill about two hours later and was hospitalized for heat-related illness.
On July 29, 2025, an employee working near a metal furnace. Toward the end of his shift, he was charging a furnace and began to experienced heat exhaustion. He had also been in areas of elevated temperatures due to heat sources such as direct sunlight and a combustion engine. The employee was hospitalized with dehydration.
The injured employee was standing behind a table. She jumped out to scare another employee, but tripped and fell on the tile floor, injuring her right ankle/foot. She was hospitalized with a dislocated ankle that required surgery.
An employee was installing insulation in a wall when she tripped on a hole (12" deep) and fell, hitting her head on the concrete floor. The employee sustained fractures to her leg and wrist, and lacerations to her head. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was loading a 4-inch wooden door into a pickup truck when he felt a pop in his right side behind his shoulder blade. He was hospitalized later that day and underwent surgery, having suffered a collapsed right lung.
An employee was helping a coworker transport a tall palm tree with a mini skid steer. The employee was severely shocked by a high-voltage electrical wire above the ground.
An employee was retrieving a Christmas tree from a shelf using a ladder. He missed a step and fell to the concrete floor. He sustained injury to his head and wrist.
An employee was operating an agricultural tractor during sugarcane harvesting. The employee sustained a lumbar sprain due to vibration or motion from the tractor.
An employee was moving a 3-ton condensing unit, strapped down on a dolly, out of a garage. The strap broke, causing the employee to fall backward onto the brick pavered driveway. The employee suffered injury to a spinal ligament in the neck.