| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-02-18 | Bedford Heights | Ohio | Integrated Automation Systems | Foot (feet) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker |
| A welder was restocking a steel plate when it slipped from his hands and landed on his foot, breaking it. He was hospitalized and underwent surgery. | |||||
| 2020-01-23 | Bedford Heights | Ohio | The Appalachian Hardwood Lumber Co. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning a saw when his hand was caught in the moving blade, resulting in a hand amputation. | |||||
| 2019-04-04 | Bedford Heights | Ohio | Majestic Steel USA Inc. | Brain | Fall, slip, trip |
| An employee was doing setup on a slitter arbor. The table moved; the employee was caught by the chest between the table and the splitter arbor. The employee was then released and fell, striking his head and suffering head injuries. | |||||
| 2018-04-18 | Bedford Heights | Ohio | Majestic Steel USA Inc | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee manually moved material on a conveyor without the knowledge of the injured employee. The injured employee's hand was then pinched between two bundles of material on the conveyor, resulting in a right ring fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2017-05-31 | Bedford Heights | Ohio | Majestic Steel USA Inc | Lower leg(s) | Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle |
| An employee was operating a floor scrubber when it ran over his right leg, fracturing his fibula. | |||||
| 2017-02-10 | Bedford Heights | Ohio | Olympic Steel | Leg(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was preparing to lift two bundles of cut steel from a conveyor when the weight shifted, causing the bundles to fall onto the employee's left leg, fracturing it. | |||||
| 2016-07-30 | Bedford Heights | Ohio | Automated Packaging Systems | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| An employee was setting up the machine in the converting department when his hand got caught in the nip roller crushing his hand. The employee was admitted to the hospital for surgery to repair the injured hand. | |||||
| 2016-04-27 | Bedford Heights | Ohio | Giant Eagle | Foot (feet) | Fall or jump from and struck by same vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway |
| On or about 4/27/16, an employee was being trained to operate a powered pallet jack. The employee lost control of the pallet jack and exited the platform. His leg was pinned under the platform of the pallet jack between a racking system, and he was hospitalized with a broken foot. | |||||
| 2016-03-18 | Bedford Heights | Ohio | Majestic Steel USA Inc | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating an up-cut saw. As he was putting a piece of wood in the saw, his left foot stepped on the foot pedal and cycled the machine. The saw blade amputated his right ring fingertip. | |||||
| 2015-08-09 | Bedford Heights | Ohio | Giant Eagle | Nonclassifiable | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| An employee was walking across the trailer yard (between the dispatch office and the fleet garage) and was struck by the yard horse (a 5th wheel tractor used to move trailers). | |||||
| 2015-06-23 | Bedford Heights | Ohio | Giant Eagle | Leg(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee operating a powered floor jack inadvertently steered the jack toward himself, pinning his left lower leg between the powered jack and an adjacent storage racking system. | |||||