TAMPA, FLORIDA—
EquipmentShare Inc.
Nonroadway noncollision jack-knifed or ran off driving surface · Fractures
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Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at EquipmentShare Inc., 9516 E Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Tampa, FL 33610, TAMPA, FLORIDA 33610 on — Fractures , affecting the Ankle(s).
Final narrative
An employee was unloading a boom from a rollback truck when the boom drove off the truck and landed on the ground. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ankles.
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AMARILLO, TEXAS—
EquipmentShare Inc.
At about 8:30 a.m. on August 14, 2025, an EquipmentShare employee was loading a telehandler onto a delivery truck. While the telehandler was being backed onto the truck, it went off the side. The employee suffered several broken ribs and a broken wrist.
ARANSAS PASS, TEXAS—
EquipmentShare Inc.
A driver pulled into the facility yard and backed their truck up to a dock. He was unloading an 85-foot articulating boom lift when the boom lift fell. He was slung out of the bucket of the boom lift and his self-retracting lifeline (SRL) broke. He impacted the outside of the bucket. The employee sustained a fracture to his heel plate and toes on his right foot.
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