Machine Injury & Accidents

Date	City	State	Employer	Body Part	Event
2021-07-29	Black Creek	Wi	Saputo Cheese USA Inc.	Back, including spine, spinal cord	Overexertion in holding, carrying, or wielding-single episode
An employee was disconnecting a wash line. While in a squatting position, the employee was using a rubber hammer to tighten a clamp and sustained a back injury.
2021-07-09	Blacklick	Oh	Anomatic Corporation	Hip(s)	Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
An employee was setting up a machine when their foot got caught in a cord which caused the employee to fall to the ground and fracture their left hip.
2021-06-27	Blackwood	Nj	Elmwood Hills Healthcare Center LLC	Head	Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving
A nursing assistant was kneed in the head by a patient while helping the patient. The nursing assistant suffered an embolism and was hospitalized.
2021-06-21	Blackwood	Nj	U.S. Postal Service	BODY SYSTEMS	Exposure to environmental heat
An employee was delivering mail on a walking route when they began to feel ill and were hospitalized for dehydration.
2021-06-14	Black Hawk	Co	Jacobs Entertainment Inc	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects
An employee was restocking a soda vending machine when her finger was pinched in the door resulting in a 1/4 inch amputation of the right middle finger.
2021-03-20	Blackwood	Nj	Elmwood Hills Healthcare LLC	Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)	Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving
An employee was leading a patient back to their room. The patient pushed the employee, who fell to the floor and suffered a broken right shoulder.
2021-01-19	Blackwell	Ok	Oklahoma Investment Casting Company	Multiple head locations	Explosion, n.e.c.
An employee was monitoring a foundry with molten metals inside when a tree was introduced into the foundry, causing an eruption of molten metal. The employee tried to rapidly leave the area but tripped and fell to the ground. The erupted molten metal landed on the employee causing burns of different degrees to their face and head.
2020-09-22	Blackwood	Nj	Elmwood Hills Healthcare Center LLC	Leg(s)	Injured by physical contact with person while restraining, subduing-unintentional
An employee was injured while trying to restrain a patient. The patient fell on top of the employee's leg causing multiple fractures.
2020-09-21	Blackshear	Ga	Cal-Maine Foods, Inc.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Struck by object or equipment
An employee was inspecting the insulation of a drag conveyor when a piece of angle iron fell into an opening in the housing. The drag conveyor then contacted the angle iron causing it to strike an employee's left thumb. The employee's thumb sustained a deep laceration.
2020-06-05	Blackshear	Georgia	Steel & Metal Systems, Inc.	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee had placed a piece of sheet metal into a folding machine and was operating the machine when the metal slipped further into the machine. The top plate came down on the employee's left middle fingertip, causing an amputation.
2020-05-12	Blackshear	Georgia	Steel and Metal Systems of Georgia, Inc.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was placing material into a metal folding press to be fabricated when the operating pedal was engaged before her hand was out of the way of the moving parts. Her hand was caught in the machine, resulting in one broken bone in her right middle finger and one broken bone in her right ring finger. She was hospitalized.
2019-08-12	Black River Falls	Wisconsin	FLASH4.COM, LLC.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
On August 12, 2019, an employee was setting up a printing press, pulling out the paper roll. The machine jogged while the employee's left index finger was inside it, amputating it at the first or second knuckle.
2019-06-30	Blackfoot	Idaho	Glanbia Foods, Inc	Shoulder(s) and arm(s)	Contact with hot objects or substances
An employee was cleaning under a cheese tower conveyor belt when hot water (175 °F) was released on the employee, burning the left shoulder and arm.
2019-05-21	Blackfoot	Idaho	Basic American Ingredients	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was cleaning around a belt guard for a shaker motor and amputated her left index fingertip and left thumb tip in the belt and pulley.
2019-04-22	Blackfoot	Idaho	Cannon Builders, Inc.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
An employee was using loading equipment to install a metal guardrail on a bridge. He was jockeying the rail into place when his right index finger was caught between the guardrail and the equipment, resulting in a finger amputation.
2019-01-31	Black Hawk	South Dakota	Bridger Steel, Inc.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was using a rag to clean rollers when the employee's glove became caught in the rollers, resulting in the amputation of two fingers. The rollers were unguarded at the time of the incident.
2018-09-13	Black Hawk	Colorado	Guardian Metal Systems, L.L.C.	Nonclassifiable	Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
While installing a metal roof, an employee fell 5-6 feet to a lower working surface. The employee suffered a broken vertebra and was hospitalized. Fall protection was not in use at the time of the incident.
2018-06-27	Blackfoot	Idaho	AMERICAN FABRICATION, INC.	Fingertip(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
An employee was manually turning a V-belt drive and belt on an air handling unit when his hand and glove were pulled into the belt and pulley, amputating his left pinky fingertip below the first knuckle.
2018-03-01	Blackstone	Virginia	Army National Guard	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
On March 1, 2018, an employee was repairing a tank engine and revving it manually near an exposed turbo air inlet fan blade. The employee's right hand then came into contact with the rotating fan blade, amputating the index and middle fingers. The air intake was unguarded at the time of the incident.
2017-10-11	Blackshear	Georgia	Steel & Metal Systems, Inc.	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was operating a metal folding machine when the machine closed on her hands, amputating both thumb tips.
2017-04-30	Blackwood	New Jersey	Kennedy Heathcare	Arm(s)	Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
An employee tripped over a liner strap while cleaning and fell to the ground, breaking both arms.
2017-02-09	Blackshear	Georgia	GILMAN BUILDING PRODUCTS, LLC	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
An employee was making adjustments to a planer when his left hand contacted the fan motor, partially amputating his ring and middle fingers.
2017-02-08	Blackwell	Oklahoma	CMF Corporation	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was preparing a shell core machine to make shells. The employee installed the right half of the pattern and placed the left into position. The employee activated the machine to bring the two pattern frames together. The rotating cylinder became stuck and the employee hit it with a hammer. The frames then closed on his left ring finger amputating it below the first knuckle.
2016-08-23	Blackshear	Georgia	Pike Electric, LLC	BODY SYSTEMS	Exposure to environmental heat
An employee had been working in a bucket truck doing overhead electrical line work all day. Later that evening, the employee started feeling ill and was admitted to the hospital for heat exhaustion.
2016-08-23	Black Hawk	Colorado	Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc.	Multiple body parts	Direct exposure to electricity
An employee was on a ladder helping a third-party contractor test and repair an electrical fuse bucket when an arc flash occurred, burning the employee's right hand and left eyebrow.
2016-07-19	Black River Falls	Wisconsin	Nelson Global Products, Inc.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
On July 19, 2016, at approximately 7:10 p.m., an employee was loading a tube in the tube bender when a clamp closed on the employee's right fourth and fifth fingers. A portion of the fourth finger was surgically removed the following day.
2015-11-12	Blackwell	Oklahoma	HMT Tank Service	Thigh(s)	Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
A crew was removing worn slats from a burn table, which was hoisted approximately 3 feet. When an employee cut one of the slats, the table came down to its home position and cut the employee's right thigh, requiring hospitalization and stitches.
2015-10-13	Black	Texas	Cattletown Feeders	Neck and back	Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area
An employee was walking across the drive and was struck by a truck resulting in neck and back trauma.
2015-09-01	Blackwell	Arkansas	Dry Mtn Xpress LLC	Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
An employee fell while walking between his truck's catwalk and the trailer to get bungee cords to secure the trailer load. He broke three ribs, punctured a lung, and broke his collarbone.
2015-08-20	Blackfoot	Idaho	Cannon Builders Inc.	Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle
An excavator was dislodged from a flatbed trailer after hitting an overpass on Northbound I-15. An employee attempted to reload the excavator onto the trailer. The excavator encountered fluid on the flatbed and slipped off the trailer. The employee was injured, sustaining a hairline fracture to the neck vertebrae.
2015-06-15	Blackfoot	Idaho	SPUDNIK EQUIPMENT COMPANY LLC	Fingertip(s)	Contact with objects and equipment
An employee was assembling two pieces of sheet steel on a harvester when he slipped and one of sheets amputated his fingertip.
2015-06-13	Blackfoot	Idaho	BASIC AMERICAN FOODS	Foot (feet)	Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area
An employee's right foot was run over and de-gloved by a forklift being driven by another operator.
2015-06-12	Blackwood	New Jersey	USPS	BODY SYSTEMS	Exposure to environmental heat
On June 12, 2015, an employee exposed to heat stress hazards was hospitalized after he went home with heat stress symptoms.
2015-06-09	Black River Falls	Wisconsin	D&S Manufacturing	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
An employee was placing a 450 lb. part on a work table, using a 1-ton hoist and a hook, when the part came loose from the hook and partially fell onto the employee's hand. The employee suffered vascular damage to the left middle and ring fingers, requiring surgery.
2015-05-29	Blackwood	New Jersey	Philadelphia D&M	Nonclassifiable	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
An employee fell approximately 4.5 feet from a scaffold while installing ceiling material.
2015-05-21	Blackwell	Oklahoma	CFM Corporation	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was working in the mold department with the mixing machine. While the employee was pushing the mixing machine, his hand slipped into the mixer. His left index, middle, and ring fingers were amputated.
2015-03-19	Black Eagle	Montana	Mountain View Coop	Leg(s)	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
An employee missed the last rung on a fixed ladder on a delivery truck; he fell and injured his leg.
2015-02-26	Black River Falls	Wisconsin	LUNDA CONSTRUCTION CO.	Leg(s)	Fire
While fighting a fire at the shop, employee received a burn to the left leg.
2015-01-26	Black River Falls	Wisconsin	GERKE EXCAVATING, INCORPORATED	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Struck, caught, or crushed in other collapsing structure or equipment
Employee received a crushing injury to the right-hand thumb when the collapsible railing on a crusher plant's catwalk vibrated loose and pinned his thumb between the railing and catwalk. The thumb was partially severed and the bone broke. His thumb was later amputated at Rochester Mayo Clinic because blood flow to the thumb could not be re-established.