Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-11-02 | Arcadia | Wi | Ashley Furniture Industries, LLC. | Thigh(s) | Nonroadway collision with other vehicle |
On November 2, 2021, an employee was operating a front-riding pallet jack. While making a U-turn, the pallet jack collided with the right tine of a forklift. The employee suffered a broken femur and was hospitalized. | |||||
2021-09-20 | Arcadia | Fl | EcoSouth Services, LLC | Ankle(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
While directing landfill traffic, an employee's feet were run over by a semi trailer. The employee's left ankle was fractured. | |||||
2021-08-29 | Arcadia | Fl | A+ ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, LLC | Leg(s) | Fall through surface or existing opening |
An employee was painting the top of a roof when he fell through a skylight into the machine shop below. He landed on the roof of a truck, then fell to the concrete floor. He suffered leg injuries. | |||||
2021-07-23 | Arcadia | Wi | Ashley Furniture Industries, LLC. | Foot (feet) | Nonroadway collision with other vehicle |
An employee was driving a ride-on forklift. The employee had to swerve to avoid another powered industrial vehicle and her right foot was caught between the two vehicles and broken. | |||||
2021-07-08 | Arcadia | Fl | Consolidated Industries, LLC | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was descending a 6-foot ladder and missed the last step, causing the employee to fall to the ground and fracture his hip. | |||||
2020-07-27 | Arcadia | Wisconsin | Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
On July 27, 2020, an employee was operating an end rider pallet jack and struck an elevated platform. The employee sustained a laceration to the left calf. | |||||
2020-04-28 | Arcadia | Florida | WELLPATH LLC | Multiple trunk locations | Fall, slip, trip |
An employee was using a paint scaffold to reach boxes on an industrial shelf about 6-feet 4-inches high. A metal frame caught his foot, causing him to trip and fall onto a pipe. He suffered a broken pelvis, broken ribs, and a collapsed lung. | |||||
2020-03-11 | Arcadia | Florida | THE QUIKRETE HOLDINGS, INC. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
An employee was visually inspecting a faulty part for the cuber carrier. The employee had stepped out of the basket into the frame when the cuber carrier moved, causing him to lose balance and fall 12 to 13 feet onto a slat conveyor. The employee sustained fractures to the left wrist and left hip. Fall protection was not worn at the time of the incident. | |||||
2019-09-13 | Arcadia | Florida | Peace River Citrus Products | Thoracic region | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was walking backwards while pulling a piece of steel when the employee slipped on plywood and fell backwards. The employee was hospitalized with a fracture to the T-12 vertebra. | |||||
2019-07-24 | Arcadia | Louisiana | HOUSE OF RAEFORD | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was performing a mid-shift wash down in the evisceration department when she saw a chicken hanging in the neck skin cutter. She was trying to remove it when her fingers were caught in the cutter, resulting in a finger amputation. | |||||
2019-07-01 | Arcadia | Louisiana | OMEGA CONTAINER, INC. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was attempting to remove a metal lid that had been stamped and was stuck in a punch press die when the press was activated via the foot pedal, causing it to cycle and sever his left hand. | |||||
2019-05-28 | Arcadia | Wisconsin | Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc. | Heart | Overexertion involving outside sources |
An employee was found on the floor between two stacks of lumber. The employee had been stacking lumber in the frame mill upholstery department. The employee was hospitalized for cardiac arrest. | |||||
2019-04-10 | Arcadia | Wisconsin | ASHLEY FURNITURE INDUSTRIES, INC. | Head | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
Two employees were installing a cross-beam on a racking system from 6-foot-tall step ladders. One of the employees fell and their head struck the concrete floor, sustaining an open head injury. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-01-07 | Arcadia | Louisiana | House of Raeford | Hand(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
An employee was trying to unstick a chicken breast from a breast slicer machine when the slicer lacerated the employee's left hand, resulting in a medical amputation of the hand. | |||||
2018-07-21 | Arcadia | Wisconsin | ASHLEY FURNITURE INDUSTRIES, INC. | Head | Struck by falling object or equipment |
An employee was picking furniture with a lift when a piece of furniture fell from above, striking the employee in the head. | |||||
2018-06-06 | Arcadia | Wisconsin | ASHLEY FURNITURE INDUSTRIES, INC. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
On June 6, 2018, at approximately 9:30 p.m. an employee was cleaning a roll press when their right hand became entangled in the machine resulting in injury requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2018-01-15 | Arcadia | Wisconsin | Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was removing a battery from a forklift using an overhead hoist when her left middle finger was pinched and partially amputated between the hoist hook and the lifting ear. | |||||
2018-01-02 | Arcadia | Oklahoma | McKee Utility Contractors, Inc. | Trunk | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was operating a boring machine in a trench box when the bit became stuck and the torque of the machine caused it to tip over. The employee was then caught between the machine and the trench box, bruising his right side. | |||||
2017-08-15 | Arcadia | Wisconsin | Pilgrim's - GNP Business Unit | Hand(s) | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
An employee was switching a tank connection from natural gas to propane when the gas ignited, causing thermal burns to his left and right hands. | |||||
2017-02-14 | Arcadia | Louisiana | HOUSE OF RAEFORD FARMS OF LOUISIANA LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee's right index finger was caught on a shackle on a rehang line, amputating it above the second joint. | |||||
2016-09-01 | Arcadia | Florida | Tidewell Hospice | Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee was walking to her car in the parking lot, tripped on a drainage bib in the parking lot, and fell fracturing the right shoulder. She was hospitalized. | |||||
2016-07-18 | Arcadia | Wisconsin | Blaschko Enterprises | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
On July 14, 2016, at approximately 9:45 a.m., a cutter operator placed paper in a skid to be cut. When the skid moved, the employee's left pinky finger became caught between the cutter and the lift. The employee's left pinky finger was surgically amputated the following day. | |||||
2016-07-13 | Arcadia | Wisconsin | Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc | Hand(s), except finger(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
On July 12, 2016, an employee was admitted to the hospital as a result of crushing injuries that resulted in a laceration across the palm of the hand. The employee was cleaning the rollers on a roll coater machine with a cotton shop rag when a hand was pulled into an in-running nip-point between rollers. | |||||
2016-04-09 | Arcadia | Florida | S. G. Harvesting, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
An employee was walking through an orange grove with a ladder when the ladder made contact with overhead power lines. An electrical current entered the employee's body through his hands and exited through his feet. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2016-03-04 | Arcadia | Wisconsin | Ashley Distribution Services Limited | Brain | Fall, slip, trip |
An employee was shuttling vehicles at the distribution center. The employee fell and struck their head while entering or exiting a vehicle, suffering a traumatic brain injury. | |||||
2016-02-05 | Arcadia | Wisconsin | Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc. | Brain | Struck by shifting load during transport, nonroadway |
An employee was operating an order picker and was struck by furniture when it fell from the order picker and pushed the employee into a mesh guard. The employee was hospitalized with a traumatic brain injury with loss of consciousness and a laceration above the right eye. | |||||
2016-01-22 | Arcadia | Wisconsin | Allied Cooperative | Fingertip(s) | Struck by rolling object or equipment being pushed by injured worker |
An I-beam rolled onto an employee's fingers, pinching and amputating the left middle and ring fingertips. | |||||
2015-12-27 | Arcadia | Louisiana | House of Raeford Farms, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Trip on uneven surface without fall |
An employee was working on a small platform with grating approximately one foot above a subfloor when a 2 inch by 2 inch section of grating came loose and fell. This caused the employee to trip and his leg contacted the now exposed grating which sliced his right calf. | |||||
2015-12-08 | Arcadia | Wisconsin | ASHLEY FURNITURE INDUSTRIES, INC. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee's left middle fingertip was amputated while clearing a jam on the clip rail machine. | |||||
2015-12-02 | Arcadia | Wisconsin | Wieser Brothers General Contractors, Inc. | Shoulder(s) and back | Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving |
On 12/2/15, at about 3:30 p.m., two employees got into an altercation. One employee was pushed to the ground and was hospitalized with a shoulder and back sprain/strain. | |||||
2015-11-03 | Arcadia | Wisconsin | INDUSTRIAL PACKAGING CORPORATION | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was attempting to clear a jam in the chopper and amputated the tips of the left index, middle, and ring fingers. | |||||
2015-10-19 | Arcadia | Florida | Orangeco | Upper and lower limb(s) | Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
An employee was operating a dump truck in the orange grove. The truck was loaded with shell rock to be dumped to grade a road. Upon lifting the bed, contact was made with an overhead power line. Upon exiting the truck the employee was shocked and received electrical burns to the left arm and foot. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2015-09-24 | Arcadia | Louisiana | Davis Chemical Services, LLC. | Leg(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee at an oil field site was snubbing pipe while standing on a catwalk. As a second pipe was being loaded into the V-door, it caught the end of the first pipe, sending the second pipe into the air. The employee saw the pipe and jumped from the catwalk to avoid being struck. The pipe fell on and broke his left leg. | |||||
2015-09-16 | Arcadia | Florida | Walmart | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway |
An employee was operating a Barrett double jack and making a "U" turn when he lost balance and inadvertently pressed on the brake causing him to fall off the equipment. The front plate under the carriage struck his foot as he fell. The employee sustained lacerations to his toes and two hairline fractures. | |||||
2015-08-19 | Arcadia | Florida | Bethel Farms, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
On August 19, an employee was feeding sod into a jammed plug machine. While trying to clear the jam, her finger got cut on the blades, which were still spinning. She later had the tip amputated. | |||||
2015-06-08 | Arcadia | Louisiana | Haynes International | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Struck by falling object or equipment |
An employee was looking into the pilger machine when the hood fell, striking the employee on the back. | |||||
2015-04-20 | Arcadia | Louisiana | Packers Sanitation Services, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was cleaning the paddles on a bone canon when his frock was caught in the machine. The employee tried to free himself from the machine and in the process his hand was caught in the machine. His left pinky finger was amputated as a result. | |||||
2015-01-08 | Arcadia | Wisconsin | ASHLEY FURNITURE INDUSTRIES, INC. | Thigh(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
Employee received an embedded tack in her thigh when walking by a pintacker. Employee had the micro pin tack surgically removed from her thigh and was admitted to the hospital overnight. | |||||
2015-01-02 | Arcadia | Louisiana | House of Raeford Farms | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
An employee suffered a right index finger amputation. The employee's finger was injured by a thigh deboning machine. The finger was still attached at the time of the incident and was later amputated at the hospital. |