| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-08 | Beckley | Wv | LOWES HOME CENTERS, INC. | Arm(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was carrying cinder blocks when they tripped and fell over other cinder blocks in the aisleway. A cinder block landed on their arm, resulting in a fracture. | |||||
| 2021-01-25 | Beckley | Wv | CVS Pharmacy | Leg(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee arrived at work in the company parking lot and was getting out of her car. The employee slipped on ice in the parking lot and fell, resulting in a broken leg and hospitalization. | |||||
| 2020-09-28 | Beckley | Wv | Crook Brothers Produce | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
| On September 28, 2020, an employee was closing a truck trailer door when his finger was caught in the joint of the door, resulting in an avulsion and the loss of a fingernail. | |||||
| 2020-09-23 | Beckley | Wv | West Virginia Paving, Inc. | Leg(s) | Pedestrian vehicular incident, n.e.c. |
| Two employees were raking concrete in front of the concrete screed in a work zone. A semi-trailer entered the work zone and struck the concrete screed. The concrete screed then struck both employees and knocked them to the ground. Employee 1 suffered a fractured left leg and a laceration to the back of the head and was hospitalized. Employee 2 suffered contusions to both knees and the chest and whiplash. Employee 2 was treated and released. | |||||
| 2020-02-06 | Beckley | West Virgini | Beckley Garbage Disposal, Inc. | Thigh(s) | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area |
| An employee jumped down from a garbage truck and was pushed into a garbage pile by a bulldozer. The employee suffered a broken femur and lacerations from the dozer's bucket. | |||||
| 2019-07-08 | Beckley | West Virgini | Allegheny Wood Products, Inc | Fingertip(s) | Struck by rolling object or equipment being pushed by injured worker |
| An employee was pulling an empty lumber cart when his left index finger was caught between it and another cart. The fingertip was amputated. | |||||
| 2018-07-31 | Beckley | West Virgini | Allegheny Wood Products | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was cutting the ends off boards with a circular saw. After cutting the board, he slid it back with his hand and his left middle finger was caught between the board and a chain, resulting in a possible partial fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2017-07-12 | Beckley | West Virgini | U.S. Postal Service | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| On July 12, 2017, at approximately 1:30 PM, an employee was delivering mail when he began to feel dizzy. He was hospitalized with dehydration. | |||||
| 2017-01-24 | Beckley | West Virgini | Wendbeck Corporation | Neck and back | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| On January 24, 2017, at approximately 2:13 p.m., an employee was injured while operating a chicken pressure fryer. The lid to the cooker was closed, but did not latch. Approximately 5 minutes into the cooking cycle, the pressure inside the cooker caused the lid to open and grease, heated to 350 degrees, splattered on two employees. The first employee was hospitalized for second degree burns to her back and neck. The second employee was treated for first degree burns to his back and was released. | |||||
| 2016-09-19 | Beckley | West Virgini | Allegheny Wood Products, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| An employee was inspecting a high-pressure hydraulic hose that had a pinhole leak when it injected hydraulic fluid into the employee's left middle finger. | |||||
| 2016-08-17 | Beckley | West Virgini | Community Newspaper Holdings of West Virginia | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On August 17, 2016, at approximately 12:15 a.m., an employee was moving bundles of paper into a strapping machine by hand using a motor-driven roller line. While attempting to remove a paper from the line, the employee's right hand and arm were pulled into the live rollers. He was hospitalized with a fractured right arm. | |||||
| 2016-04-14 | Beckley | West Virgini | Suddenlink Communications | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was installing internet on a mid span cable using a 28-foot extension ladder. While the employee was descending, the ladder shifted and the employee fell to the ground, suffering contusions. | |||||
| 2016-02-29 | Beckley | West Virgini | Raleigh General Hospital | Multiple head locations | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| On February 29, 2016, at approximately 3:05pm, an employee suffered injuries after falling to the floor. The employee was walking out of the Director's office, caught a shoe on a chair, and fell to the tile floor resulting in a loss of consciousness, nasal fracture, laceration to the lip, and bruising. | |||||
| 2016-02-26 | Beckley | West Virgini | Beckley Water Company | Foot (feet) and ankle(s) | Shooting by other person-unintentional |
| An employee was showing a coworker a problem with a handgun that would not eject its cartridge. The employee was able to pull the slide back when the cartridge went off. A portion of the bullet went through the employee's hand. A bullet fragment also struck a second employee in the left ankle and heel. | |||||
| 2015-04-14 | Beckley | West Virgini | Taylor's Autobody | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On April 14, 2015, at approximately 3:30 p.m., an employee's left index finger was amputated while operating the frame straightening machine. The employee was lowering the machine with his left hand while holding a safety bar out of the way with his right hand. The frame of the machine came down on his left hand, which was laying on/near the top of the foot pedal. | |||||