| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-12 | Boaz | Al | Top Tower Services, LLC | Jaw, chin | Fall, slip, trip |
| An employee fell near the front of a truck, suffered a broken jaw, and lost consciousness. | |||||
| 2021-11-08 | Boaz | Al | Parallel33 Lumber Corp. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was trying to remove a jammed board. A running belt caught the employee's left middle finger against a plastic slide. The finger was lacerated, resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2021-05-21 | Boaz | Al | Parker Hannifin Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| A half-ton jib crane was being used to move a bundle of 1 3/8 inch hex bars into a storage rack. The material rolled, and an employee's right middle and ring fingers were caught between the bars. Both fingertips were amputated. | |||||
| 2021-04-07 | Boaz | Al | Parallel33 Lumber Corp. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was removing scrap pieces of board from a conveyor and sustained an amputation to the right pinky fingertip. | |||||
| 2020-05-22 | Boaz | Alabama | Marshall Dekalb Electric Cooperative | Brain | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee fell to a concrete floor and hit her head, suffering a contusion and a small brain bleed. | |||||
| 2019-07-22 | Boaz | Alabama | Pinnacle Manufacturing Merger Sub, LLC | Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) | Other jump to lower level less than 6 feet |
| When an employee jumped off a platform that was 54 inches above the ground, his left armpit was punctured by a metal tube. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-09-20 | Boaz | Alabama | PINNACLE MANUFACTURING, LLC | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was on a stepladder removing a sling from a lifting lug that was welded onto a 300-pound weir wall when the lock nut came loose from the bolt, causing the weir wall to fall and knock the employee 4 to 5 feet off the stepladder to the ground. The employee suffered a lower right leg fracture. | |||||
| 2018-08-20 | Boaz | Alabama | Alatrade Foods LLC Plant 2 | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was feeding chicken leg quarters into a skinner when the employee's fingertip was caught in the machinery, resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2018-06-22 | Boaz | Alabama | Federal-Mogul Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was removing parts from a rotator table at a spinner machine and placing them into a bin for inspection. While the employee was at the greasing station, the greaser nozzle caused a partial amputation of their right index fingertip. The station was guarded at the time. | |||||
| 2016-01-30 | Boaz | Alabama | Federal-Mogul Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was removing chuck from a lathe machine. When he operated the machine hydraulics by stepping on the foot pedal, the chuck did not dislodge completely. As he was troubleshooting the problem on the chuck, the machine was activated by the foot pedal. This caused the chuck to move back inside the machine, amputating is right-hand middle and ring fingertips. | |||||
| 2015-03-04 | Boaz | Alabama | AlaTrade Foods L.L.C. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| The employee reached into a poultry skinning machine to push meat through. The metal mesh glove she was wearing became caught and pulled her hand into the machine, amputating her middle fingertip and nail. | |||||