Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-07-06 | Amory | Ms | True Temper Sports, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
A maintenance employee was unjamming a golf straightener. When the machine was jogged, the employee's finger was caught between the carrier block and the frame and crushed, resulting in amputation. | |||||
2020-10-12 | Amory | Ms | United Furniture Industries, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate |
While closing a gate an employee's finger was caught in a roller and amputated. | |||||
2020-08-20 | Amory | Ms | United Furniture Industries, Inc. | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping |
An employee and fell while walking to retrieve a seat cushion, suffering a broken ankle. | |||||
2019-05-06 | Amory | Mississippi | UNITED FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was trying to remove a jammed nail in the pneumatic panel nail machine and suffered the amputation of the left index fingertip. The machine was not locked out at the time. | |||||
2019-04-03 | Amory | Mississippi | River Place Nursing Center | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall on same level |
An employee fell while walking, and a paring knife he was carrying stabbed into his abdomen. | |||||
2018-08-17 | Amory | Mississippi | UNITED FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC. | Hip(s) and leg(s) | Struck by rolling object or equipment being pushed by another person |
An employee was working at the dock when a second employee who was using a dolly with approximately 30 pounds of furniture bumped her. She fell to the floor, fracturing her right knee and hip. | |||||
2017-03-20 | Amory | Mississippi | GCA Education Services Central States, Inc. | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was mopping the floor when she fell and fractured her hip. | |||||
2016-09-29 | Amory | Mississippi | United Furniture Industries, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was moving a board that was double-stacked on a chain conveyor. When he moved the top board, his right index finger was pinched by the boards or chain conveyor and his fingertip had to be surgically amputated. | |||||
2016-08-31 | Amory | Mississippi | FFM, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
An employee was unjamming a board on the planer mill. A 14' poplar board came off the planer mill belt and pinned the employee's left hand between the board and the barrier guard causing an amputation of the left index and middle fingertips. | |||||
2016-05-18 | Amory | Mississippi | UNITED FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee suffered the amputation of two fingers and two fingertips on the right hand after attempting to clear a clogged grinder that is used to grind waste Dacron. | |||||
2015-11-30 | Amory | Mississippi | Nautic Star, LLC | Cheek(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
An employee was attempting to lift a part when the chain/hoist slipped off the part and the chain struck the employee in the face fracturing facial bones on the left side just below the eye. | |||||
2015-01-02 | Amory | Mississippi | True Temper Sports, Inc. | Arm(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
The employee was coming down a ladder after placing media in a nitrogen generator. Employee missed a rung, fell about 10 feet to the floor, and sustained a compound fracture to the right arm. |