Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures

Name: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures at Brent Scarbrough & Company, Inc.
Start: 8/6/2024

1 hospitalization · 2024087172 · 8/6/2024 · Brent Scarbrough & Company, Inc.

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Eye(s)
Nature of injury: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures

Cause

Event: Other fall to lower level unspecified
Source: Excavators
Secondary source: Source, secondary source unspecified

Employer

Name: Brent Scarbrough & Company, Inc.
Location: State Highway 54 and Tyrone Rd, FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA, 30215
NAICS: 237110
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

On August 5, 2024, an employee was fueling an excavator. He was walking on the excavator tracks to turn the fuel pump on. While walking back down the excavator track, he tripped and fell striking his head on the excavator bucket and causing his safety glasses to become lodged under his right eye. The employee was hospitalized for lacerations to the back of his right eyeball.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown