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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

IDEAL STEEL L.L.C.

Struck by other falling object n.e.c. · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at IDEAL STEEL L.L.C., 1289 Smede Highway, BROUSSARD, LOUISIANA 70518 on — Fractures , affecting the Leg(s) unspecified.

An employee was sitting on a stack of steel beams. When they stood up, the top beam fell onto the employee, resulting in a broken left leg.

Hospitalized Leg(s) unspecified Beams and rails metal

IDEAL STEEL L.L.C.

An employee was preparing steel beams for loading onto a truck and walked on top of a stack of beams that was approximately 3 to 4 feet high. When he stepped down off the beams, the beams fell onto him. He was hospitalized with a crush injury to his lower back.

IDEAL STEEL L.L.C.

An employee was attacked by another employee over a work disagreement. He was thrown on the floor, hitting and injuring his head.

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RG Professional Carpenter, Inc.

The injured employee was assisting five other employees with bracing a wall panel that was being stood up. Another employee slipped on frost on the floor surface. The employees went to evacuate the area in anticipation of the wall panel falling over. The injured employee went to jump through a window opening within the wall panel and their lower half was crushed by the falling wall panel. The employee sustained a fractured pelvis.

Rae Corporation

An employee was helping to move a 1,300-pound coil on a cart. The steel caster hit a crack in the concrete, the weld holding the caster onto the cart broke, and the coil and cart tipped over onto the employee. He was hospitalized with a laceration on his forehead and a pelvic fracture on his right side.

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.

Simon Contractors of South Dakota, Inc.

An employee was moving a tensile strength test device with a dolly. The device fell from the dolly onto the employee's right leg, causing a compound fracture.

RJV Construction

An employee was rigging I-beams. An I-beam slid off the stack of I-beams and fractured the employee's leg.

Hinkle Metal & Supply Co. Inc.

An employee was helping to install a tarp on a roof when they fell through a skylight to the ground below, resulting in fractures to their face and ribs.

CT Windows LLC

An employee was driving a forklift and unloading racks of glass from a truck. A rack began to tilt; the employee exited the forklift and went to stabilize it. The rack tipped and pinned his left arm against the forklift. The forearm was broken and required surgery.

T627, Inc

An employee was working to tow a forklift with another forklift when the tow line came loose and struck their face. The employee sustained head, face, and eye injuries.

Wiregrass Construction

An employee was walking down the road when a tack truck backed over him. The employee sustained fractures to his right ankle and a crushed pelvis.

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.