Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-11-15 | Beulah | Nd | Dakota Gasification Company | Upper extremities | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
An employee was inspecting a coal conveyor belt. The idler pulley system caught the employee's clothing and pulled in the employee's arm up to the elbow. The employee suffered multiple fractures and lacerations and was hospitalized. | |||||
2020-06-02 | Beulah | North Dakota | DAKOTA GASIFICATION COMPANY | Face | Struck by discharged object or substance |
An employee sustained lacerations to his face from the release of pressurized urea solids. | |||||
2020-04-29 | Beulah | North Dakota | Swanson and Youngdale, Inc | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was standing 8 to 10 feet up on a ladder inside a water tank applying tank coating when the employee fell to the metal bottom of the tank. The employee sustained fractured vertebrae, broken ribs, and a punctured neck. | |||||
2017-08-24 | Beulah | North Dakota | Vadakin Inc | Nonclassifiable | Struck by discharged object or substance |
An employee was power washing a vertical pipe while standing on a step ladder when the employee's foot went off the ladder. The power washer wand was then pulled out of the pipe, and the high-pressure washer fluid contacted and cut the employee. | |||||
2016-06-01 | Beulah | North Dakota | Dakota Gasification | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was changing a pin on a pneumatic cylinder when the cylinder's pressure released and amputated the employee's fingertip. | |||||
2015-11-02 | Beulah | North Dakota | Industrial Contractors, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee amputated half of his nail and finger when an automatic valve closed on his right middle finger. | |||||
2015-07-10 | Beulah | North Dakota | Dakota Gasification Company | Knee(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee fell approximately 9 feet while descending a fixed industrial ladder, fracturing the left knee. | |||||
2015-04-13 | Beulah | North Dakota | Dakota Gasification Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire |
An employee was holding a hydraulic hose while pressurizing a high-torque wrench to remove large nuts from a pressure vessel. The hydraulic hose ruptured, puncturing the employee's left index finger. | |||||
2015-02-03 | Beulah | North Dakota | Valley Grain Milling | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
Employee was going down stairs that had snow on them to check movement underneath the grain silos. He slipped down the stairs or fell forward and hit his head on the concrete floor. |