Weekly Fatality/Catastrophe Report
| FAT/CAT FY09 Weekly Report (August 14, 2009) | ||||
| Region Reporting | Company and Location | Date of Occurrence | Nature of Incident | Event Number |
| 2 | Lucas Construction Group, Inc. Avenel, NJ 07001 |
8/11/2009 | Victim was struck on the head by a metal trench plate. | 101312189 |
| 4 | United Parcel Service Co., Miami, FL 33152 |
8/2/2009 | Victim was unloading a palette of boxed flowers, and was struck on the torso, while pulling a box towards him. The stack of boxed fell, causing him to lose his balance, and fall backwards down 1'8" high. | 100681469 |
| 4 | L&L Fleet Services, LLC Madison, AL 35756 |
8/3/2009 | The safety supports failed on a dump truck bed, causing the bed of the dump truck to fall onto the victim, crushing him. | 101275238 |
| 4 | Walt Disney World Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830 |
8/6/2009 | Victim, during a choreographed sword fight, stumbled and fell into a wall. | 102571866 |
| 4 | Zodiac Services Americas College Park, GA 30337 |
8/6/2009 | Victim was found off his forklift, apparent heart attack. | 100203264 |
| 4 | MJM Greenway Landscaping & Management, Inc. Port Orange, FL 32128 |
8/11/2009 | Victim was doing landscaping services. He was later found collapsed in the company truck, apparent heat stress. | 101357622 |
| 4 | Superior Construction, LLC Jacksonville, FL 32256 |
8/11/2009 | Victim was surveying the ramp shoulder and was struck by an automobile. | 101357614 |
| 6 | L&J Roustabout Batesville, TX 78829 |
7/8/2009 | Employees were removing a cap on a 12-inch natural gas pipeline. Employees working nearby were doing some oxygen/acetylene cutting. While removing the cap, natural gas escaped and was ignited by the cutting process. One employee fatality and two employees were hospitalized. | 100605286 |
| 6 | Sweeping Services of Texas - Operating LP Lewisville, TX 75022 |
8/10/2009 | Victim was picking up trash/debris along the roadside and was struck by a tire that had sheared off a truck axle. | 100715689 |
| 6 | SMC, Inc. Odessa, TX 79764 |
8/12/2009 | Victim leaned across a horizontal milling machine turning at 138 RPM. One of the sleeves of his shirt was caught by either the spinning shaft or drift. Victim was pulled off the floor and wrapped around the shaft. | 100814425 |
| 6 | Tank Builders, Inc. Richmond, TX 77407 |
8/12/2009 | Victim was welding on an overhead interior structure of a water tank, and collapsed on the scaffold, possible heat stress. | 101933695 |