| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-07 | Batesville | Ar | PECO FOODS, INC. | Upper arm(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was maneuvering around a pallet when her foot hit the corner and she fell to the ground. As she tried to brace herself, her left arm struck against another pallet of rolled plastic and her left humerus was broken. | |||||
| 2021-09-03 | Batesville | Ms | Crown Cork & Seal USA, Inc. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was troubleshooting an applicator roller on a can printer. The roller activated and pulled in the employee's right hand. The skin was torn off the hand and palm and the little finger was crushed. | |||||
| 2021-06-03 | Batesville | Ar | The Kroger Company | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was cutting boneless strip steaks with a boneless saw. The saw amputated the tip of the employee's right thumb. | |||||
| 2021-05-10 | Batesville | Ms | ACI BUILDING SYSTEMS, INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was moving a sawhorse when it tipped over and smashed the employee's left ring finger. The employee suffered an amputation. | |||||
| 2021-05-05 | Batesville | Ar | Future Fuel Chemical Company | Multiple body parts | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| On 5/4/2021, an employee was opening the top of a rail car for unloading and was sprayed with oleum on their head, face and eyes, torso and both arms and hands. | |||||
| 2021-03-22 | Batesville | Ms | Dunlap & Kyle Co, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| Two employees were lowering a dock plate to the floor. One employee's left hand was caught between the plate and the floor as the plate dropped. The employee's index fingertip was crushed and was later amputated. | |||||
| 2021-03-16 | Batesville | Ar | UNICON OPERATING COMPANY, INC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was trying to hang netting in the back of a chicken house. As the employee was securing the net to the corner of a ventilation fan guard, the guard broke loose, fell, and struck the employee's right hand. The employee suffered lacerations across and between the ring and little fingers. | |||||
| 2021-03-15 | Batesville | Ar | UNICON OPERATING COMPANY, INC | Hand(s) and finger(s) | Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object |
| At about 10:00 a.m. on March 15, 2021, an employee was loading a trailer with a forklift. As the forklift moved around the trailer, it became stuck in a hole. The employee was trying to free it when it broke loose and slid into trailer. The employee's left hand was smashed between trailer and the forklift's roll cage; the hand and fingers were broken. | |||||
| 2020-06-02 | Batesville | Arkansas | Future Fuel Chemical Company | Multiple body parts | Multiple types of overexertion involving outside sources |
| An employee was using a rod to clean coal ash out of a bin. The employee felt pain in his upper back, neck, and both arms and was later taken to the hospital. | |||||
| 2020-05-08 | Batesville | Arkansas | Odom Construction Services, LLC. | Jaw, chin | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was welding in a manlift approximately 14 feet above the ground when the manlift pinned the employee against the bottom of an I-beam. He was hospitalized with a fractured jaw and neck injuries. | |||||
| 2020-01-20 | Batesville | Arkansas | Bad Boy Mowers, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a hydraulic press brake when his right index finger went between the metal and the bending blade. The hydraulic press brake then cycled and severed his right index finger. | |||||
| 2019-06-15 | Batesville | Arkansas | Peco Foods, Inc. | Forearm(s) | Fall through surface or existing opening less than 6 feet |
| A sanitizing crew was in the picking room and had removed the drain grates in the floor to clean. While the crew was cleaning in the picking area, a maintenance employee entered the picking area. As the maintenance employee was walking to the equipment needing maintenance, he tripped in an open drain. He fell and tried to catch himself, fracturing the radius and ulna of his left arm. | |||||
| 2019-05-31 | Batesville | Arkansas | OZARK MOUNTAIN POULTRY | Lower leg(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was operating a powered pallet jack and heading to the north cooler door. When the employee made it to the north cooler, another pallet jack operator was leaving the cooler. The employee backed out to allow the other pallet jack operator to exit the cooler. After the other pallet operator exited, the employee turned the handle on his pallet jack and the machine went backwards. The pallet jack then hit the cooler guard and the employee's lower left leg was caught between the jack and | |||||
| 2019-05-16 | Batesville | Arkansas | Custom Craft Poultry | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was cutting chicken wings with a circular saw when the saw amputated her left index finger distal to the third knuckle. | |||||
| 2018-09-03 | Batesville | Texas | Winter Garden Cooperative Gin | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee slipped off a platform at a height of approximately 12 feet and fell to the ground below, suffering a broken hip. | |||||
| 2018-06-27 | Batesville | Arkansas | Flowers Baking Co of Batesville, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was operating equipment that stacks used bun trays and started to have cramps. The employee was hospitalized for heat stress. | |||||
| 2018-04-20 | Batesville | Arkansas | Ozark Mountain Poultry | Leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| An employee was walking across an aisleway when he was struck by a forklift that ran over his leg. He sustained severe injuries requiring a possible leg amputation. | |||||
| 2017-05-09 | Batesville | Arkansas | United States Postal Service | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee saw that the engine on his vehicle was running hot. He was adding fluids to the vehicle when the radiator cap blew off. Hot antifreeze spewed on him, burning his lower arm, chest, and abdomen. He was hospitalized overnight. | |||||
| 2017-03-22 | Batesville | Arkansas | Flowers Baking Co of Batesville, LLC | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was attempting to retrieve a piece of dough that was hanging on a moving conveyor when his right hand was pulled into the machine. The teeth of a hard plastic sprocket wheel then lacerated and fractured his hand. | |||||
| 2016-10-07 | Batesville | Arkansas | Flowers Baking Co | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating the bread line, where bread comes off the cooler line onto five different baggers. The bread goes onto a slide that pushes one loaf at a time into the guarded slicers. After it is sliced, a metal guide pushes the bread forward to the next line for the bread to be bagged. Two loaves of bread, one behind the other, went into the slicer the wrong way. When the employee attempted to grab the bread, the metal guide pinched her right pinky finger, resulting in a distal amput | |||||
| 2016-09-19 | Batesville | Arkansas | Atlas Asphalt, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was on the back of the paver operating the screed when he started to feel unwell and experienced muscle cramps. He was hospitalized for dehydration. | |||||
| 2016-06-17 | Batesville | Arkansas | Peco Foods, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
| An employee was in a vertical lift welding on a hydraulic line that had a pin-hole. While he was welding, a flame ignited and fluid came down on the front of his torso, burning his chest and arm. | |||||
| 2016-03-05 | Batesville | Arkansas | Intimidator Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was bending flat steel into machine parts on a brake press. On the third bend, the steel curled around, catching and crushing the employee's right thumb between the steel and the brake press. | |||||
| 2016-01-19 | Batesville | Mississippi | Crown Cork & Seal USA, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was transporting a battery with a hoist. The employee's left ring finger was caught between the battery and the battery cage resulting in the amputation of the left ring fingertip. | |||||
| 2015-12-15 | Batesville | Mississippi | Rogers-Premier Unloading Services, LLC | Leg(s) | Collision between a moving and standing vehicle, nonroadway |
| An employee was operating an electric pallet jack to pull orders. The employee backed into a parked forklift that was behind a divider curtain and broke their right leg. | |||||
| 2015-12-14 | Batesville | Arkansas | Peco Foods, Inc. | Pelvic region | Struck by object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was using a pry bar to unjam a cage when a nearby forklift operator dumped a full chicken cage. The full cage slid and struck the employee, causing a pelvic injury. | |||||
| 2015-10-13 | Batesville | Arkansas | Life Plus International | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning the powder filler machine. In the process, a conveyor belt pulled in the cloth she was using to wipe down the machine and the tip of her middle right hand finger was amputated. The machine was not locked out at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2015-09-14 | Batesville | Arkansas | Ozark Mountain Poultry | Hand(s), except finger(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was putting trays of chicks into the tray washer. The employee reached into the tray washer machine to remove a chick when his glove got caught on the chain and sprocket. He suffered lacerations to his right hand between the index and middle finger. | |||||
| 2015-07-21 | Batesville | Arkansas | Ross Elevator, Inc. | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level 21 to 25 feet |
| On July 21, 2015, an employee dismantling a scaffold in an elevator shaft fell approximately 2 stories and sustained spinal injuries requiring hospitalization. | |||||