Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-01-07 | Arkville | Ny | Brian W. Gill | Lower leg(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was feeding brush into a woodchipper when their left leg became caught in the woodchipper, resulting in amputation up to the knee. | |||||
2020-03-17 | Parkville | Missouri | Teague Lumber Company | Nonclassifiable | Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway |
An employee was unloading a rebar delivery at a new home construction site using a forklift. The forklift tipped forward and the employee was thrown off the forklift. The employee sustained a fractured vertebra and lacerations to the head. | |||||
2019-02-28 | Starkville | Mississippi | A T & T | Pelvis | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee fell backward while removing a manhole cover, landing on the pavement and suffering a broken pelvis. | |||||
2018-09-12 | Starkville | Mississippi | Delta Industries, Inc. | Skull | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was exiting a front-end loader cab using the ladder and grab rail when the employee fell backwards to the ground, suffering a possible skull fracture. | |||||
2018-08-16 | Arkville | New York | Catskill Center for Conservation and Development | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
On 8/16/2018, at approximately 12:30 p.m., an employee was on a trail installing a sign and pruning a hedge when he became lightheaded and passed out due to heat stress. He fell and injured his neck, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2018-07-03 | Parkville | Maryland | U.S. Postal Service | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
The employee was walking a regular postal delivery route and started feeling cramps. The employee suffered possible heat stress/stroke. | |||||
2018-02-03 | Starkville | Mississippi | Kroger Limited Partnership 1 | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee retrieved two hams to slice for a customer and placed one of the hams on the table of a vertical band saw. When the employee made the first cut, the moving blade amputated the employee's right index finger above the middle knuckle. The guard was raised in the highest position which did not guard the saw blade. | |||||
2017-08-17 | Starkville | Mississippi | Kroger Limited Partnership I | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was cutting meat with a band saw when his right pinky finger hit the saw blade and was lacerated. | |||||
2016-07-25 | Starkville | Mississippi | AMERICAN FIELD SERVICES CORP. | Upper and lower limb(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee was scraping loose asphalt off the apron of a dump truck containing hot asphalt. The excavator shovel was laying in the bed of the dump truck when the dump truck started to move forward. The dump truck pulled the excavator forward, causing a blade on the excavator to strike the employee, who then fell onto the hot asphalt. The employee suffered severe burns on both forearms, a chipped left ankle bone, and broken bones in the right ankle/foot. | |||||
2016-06-12 | Starkville | Mississippi | Sailormen dba Popeyes | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was working at the drive through window collapsed due to heat stroke. | |||||
2016-02-15 | Starkville | Mississippi | Craddock Construction Company Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was operating a table saw cutting lumber. A piece of the wood that he was cutting kicked back causing the employee to lose his balance. His right middle finger struck the saw blade resulting in the loss of bone to the right middle finger. | |||||
2016-01-17 | Starkville | Mississippi | Kroger 381, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was operating a meat saw and amputated the right index fingertip. | |||||
2015-05-12 | Starkville | Mississippi | Craddock Construction Company Inc.. | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee fell 8 feet from a 10-foot step ladder while installing an acoustical ceiling grid. | |||||
2015-03-18 | Starkville | Mississippi | Kroger Limited Partnership 1 | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was slicing a bone-in NY strip steak when the bone caught his thumb and pulled it into the saw blade. |