| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-08 | Anniston | Al | Food Ingredients Technology Company, L.L.C. | Upper and lower limb(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was connecting a pipe on a machine. The product line was not capped before being switched and hot water (200 degrees F) sprayed onto the employee, resulting in second degree burns to their arms and legs that required hospitalization. | |||||
| 2021-10-17 | Anniston | Al | Anniston Army Depot | Heart | Walking, without other incident-single episode |
| An employee had a heart attack during a 2-mile walking event and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-05-09 | Anniston | Al | Multimetco, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Direct exposure to electricity |
| An employee was changing a circuit breaker fuse when an arc flash occurred. The employee was hospitalized with second degree burns. | |||||
| 2021-04-30 | Anniston | Al | International Automotive Components Group North America, Inc. | Ankle(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was standing on the ground, counting parts in a warehouse. A forklift's load of metal racks became unbalanced and fell on the employee, who suffered facial lacerations, bruising on the right arm, and a broken ankle. | |||||
| 2020-07-28 | Anniston | Alabama | Bates Engineers/Contractors, Inc. | Multiple face locations | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| Two employees were removing interior metal liner wall panels two at a time, leaning them against the wall, and then lowering them to the ground to be stacked. Each panel is 3' wide x 18' 6" long, and weighs approximately 30 to 35 pounds. Two panels were leaning against the wall. The employees lowered the first panel to the floor and were about to stack it, when the second panel fell and hit the injured employee’s hard hat and cut his nose and cheek. The injured employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2020-07-01 | Anniston | Alabama | BAE Systems, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee working at the magnetic particle inspection clamp in the track machine line activated a hydraulic clamp and pinched their right ring finger between the side edge of the product being clamped and the clamp wall. The pinching action trapped the employee's finger and removed the soft tissue portion of the ring finger pad under the fingernail, resulting in a partial amputation. | |||||
| 2020-05-15 | Anniston | Alabama | U.S Army Material Command | Brain | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
| While driving a forklift, an employee hit a pothole and lost control. The forklift overturned and the employee sustained a head injury, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2020-02-14 | Anniston | Alabama | UNFI | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| After moving a box from one pallet to another, an employee turned to walk away; her foot caught in wrapping on a pallet and she fell, suffering a broken hip. | |||||
| 2020-01-29 | Anniston | Alabama | BAE SYSTEMS | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| The injured employee was trying to hold a door open for another employee when the automatic door closed on the injured employee's left ring finger. The employee's fingertip was amputated halfway down the fingernail. | |||||
| 2020-01-05 | Anniston | Alabama | Walmart | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was walking behind another employee who was pulling a pallet jack when he tripped on the pallet jack and fell on the concrete floor, fracturing his hip. | |||||
| 2019-06-12 | Anniston | Alabama | CTS SERVICES, INC. | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was cutting a stainless steel line with a chop saw. Residual radiation-curing resin inside the line sprayed out onto his chest, stomach, and thighs, causing second-degree burns. | |||||
| 2019-05-07 | Anniston | Alabama | BAE SYSTEMS | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
| While adjusting the rigging for the bull gear installation, the bull gear became unstable and shifted. The shifting gear contacted the mobile platform on which the employee was standing knocking the platform over and causing the employee to fall to the ground. When the gear shifted, the employee's right index finger was caught between the rigging and the wood block resulting in amputation of the finger. | |||||
| 2019-05-01 | Anniston | Alabama | Sunbelt Rentals, Inc. | Leg(s) | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
| An employee was test driving the company utility vehicle. The vehicle turned onto its side and the employee sustained a fractured left leg. | |||||
| 2019-01-23 | Anniston | Alabama | IPSEN, INC | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was working on a ladder inside of a hot zone (internal part of the furnace). While stepping off of the ladder, he fell approximately 6 feet. | |||||
| 2018-09-26 | Anniston | Alabama | International Automotive Components Group North America, Inc | Arm(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was operating a forklift to transport a pallet of shoddy pads when the boxes of shoddy pads fell off the pallet. The employee stopped the lift and was trying to exit from the right side when the employee tripped over the levers and pedal and started to fall. The employee grabbed a rack with the right hand to stop themselves from falling to the ground. However, the employee continued to fall while holding onto the rack. The force exerted on the employee's right arm caused a compound f | |||||
| 2018-09-20 | Anniston | Alabama | LEE BRASS, LLC | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a tumble blast machine and dumping the blasting media from the blast onto the conveyor belt. During the process, the employee's left hand came close to the lip of a pan that was contacting the conveyor belt. The glove on the employee's hand became caught between the lip of the pan and the conveyor belt. The rotation of the conveyor belt grabbed and pulled the glove between the pan and the conveyor belt, causing a deep laceration to the employee's left hand below the thu | |||||
| 2018-08-30 | Anniston | Alabama | Anniston Army Depot | Leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in roadway |
| An employee was hit by a contractor's truck while crossing the street, breaking both of her legs. | |||||
| 2018-08-28 | Anniston | Alabama | Defense Logistics Agency, Distribution Anniston | Cheek(s) | Injured by handheld object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was opening a wooden crate with a rubber-handled claw hammer when his hands slipped off the hammer handle and the rubber end of the hammer struck his face. He suffered a left cheek laceration. | |||||
| 2017-09-28 | Anniston | Alabama | Multimetco, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was operating a horizontal band saw when the blade amputated his middle and index fingers. | |||||
| 2017-09-02 | Anniston | Alabama | Capstone Logistics, LLC | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was operating an electric pallet jack. His left foot was off the platform when he ran into a roof support pole. He suffered a severe left foot contusion and laceration and broke a bone, which resulted in a toe amputation. | |||||
| 2017-05-14 | Anniston | Alabama | Supervalu Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was dropping a pallet of product off at a loading dock using a powered pallet jack when he backed up into a rack. His hand was caught between the rack and the pallet jack's handle, fracturing and cutting his left thumb. | |||||
| 2017-03-17 | Anniston | Alabama | Lee Brass Foundary, LLC | Tooth (teeth) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was using a skid steer with a chain to pull on a piece of brass. The chain broke and snapped back striking the employee on the face. The employee was hospitalized with four broken teeth and a facial laceration. | |||||
| 2016-10-03 | Anniston | Alabama | General Dynamics Land Systems, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was recording the serial numbers located on the side of wooden crates containing parts. One or more of the wooden crates fell on the employee, breaking the employee's ankle and hip. | |||||
| 2016-09-22 | Anniston | Alabama | Stata Solar, LLC | Eye(s) | Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee walked to the rear of a trailer that was loaded with steel purlins. He began removing straps from the stored purlins and turned around, making contact with the edge of a purlin, which lacerated his right eye. | |||||
| 2016-05-24 | Anniston | Alabama | Lee Brass Foundry LLC | Nonclassifiable | Explosion, n.e.c. |
| Three employees were using a pry bar to free a bridge that occurred on a furnace when the furnace exploded. One of the employees was hospitalized with severe burns. | |||||
| 2016-03-25 | Anniston | Alabama | Anniston Army Depot | Fingertip(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was opening small packages with scissors when her left index fingertip was amputated (no bone loss). | |||||
| 2016-02-29 | Anniston | Alabama | Ameron Pole Products LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On 02/29/2016 an employee was grinding a steel plate when the work stock got wedged. The work stock flipped up pinching his thumb tip between the work stock and the grinding disc. The employee was taken to the hospital for medical treatment. The employee's right thumb tip was later amputated. | |||||
| 2016-02-06 | Anniston | Alabama | M&H Valve Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee working in the melt department was injured while moving materials by hoist. The employee pinched his 4th and 5th distal ends between the wire rope and the sheave of the load block, resulting in an amputation of the 5th distal digit. | |||||
| 2016-01-21 | Anniston | Alabama | Anniston Army Depot | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was removing pins from the fender of an M88 A-2. His finger was caught in the pin hole and the fingertip was amputated when the door closed. | |||||
| 2015-10-17 | Anniston | Alabama | Anniston Army Depot | Fingertip(s) | Contact with objects and equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was inside an M-1 Tank. He pulled himself up through the turret and pinched his fingertip in a metal joint on the headrest. | |||||
| 2015-04-08 | Anniston | Alabama | U.S. Army Material Command | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance |
| An employee suffered exposure to an unknown gas on 4/8/2015. | |||||