| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-25 | Chippewa Falls | Wi | Zielies Tree Service, Inc. | Face | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| On October 26, 2021, an employee felled a tree and it landed on an adjacent, 1.5-inch diameter tree limb and put the limb under tension. The employee turned off his saw and was accessing the adjacent tree when the limb failed and struck him in the face. The employee suffered two fractures to the face. | |||||
| 2021-07-20 | Chippewa Falls | Wi | Advanced Laser Machining, Inc. | Hip(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| On July 20, 2021, during a scheduled break time, a technical assembly employee went to kneel on the bench of an outside picnic table, missed the bench, and struck her knee against the concrete ground surface, resulting in a broken left hip. The employee was hospitalized for surgery. | |||||
| 2021-07-13 | Chippewa Falls | Wi | Wisconsin Metal Fab., LLC | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| On July 13, 2021, an employee was moving two 90 lbs. parts and pinched his left middle finger between the two parts resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2020-10-05 | Chippewa Falls | Wi | Berry Global Inc. | Brain | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| On October 5, 2020, at approximately 8:13 a.m., an employee was preparing to string a cast extrusion line. When the employee ducked under the winder to grab the rope used to string, the carriage moved forward and struck the employee in the face. The employee fell to the floor and struck their head on the floor resulting in a severe head injury. | |||||
| 2020-09-29 | Chippewa Falls | Wi | Great Northern Corporation | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was stepping in and out of a cardboard gaylord container through a cutout, retrieving small merchandise items from the container. While stepping out of the container, the employee tripped on the bottom of the cutout and fell to the concrete floor. The employee suffered a broken right hip and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2020-08-28 | Chippewa Falls | Wi | Huffcutt Concrete LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| On August 28, 2020, an employee was affixing the D-ring of a pallet lifting device to the sling hook of an overhead crane when the crane's hook was raised. The employee's left thumb was caught between the crane hook and the D-ring, and the thumb tip was amputated. | |||||
| 2020-05-25 | Chippewa Falls | Wisconsin | Erickson's Diversified Corporation | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| On May 25, 2020, an employee was moving a pallet by hand when she slipped and fell on the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip. | |||||
| 2020-04-02 | Chippewa Falls | Wisconsin | Chippewa Pallet Inc. | Hand(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| On April 2, 2020, an employee was sending pieces of wood stock through a chop saw's infeed table. The wood jammed, and the sawblade cut the top of the employee's left hand while he tried to clear the machine. | |||||
| 2019-07-30 | Chippewa Falls | Wisconsin | GREAT NORTHERN CORPORATION | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| On July 30, 2019, an employee was scraping varnish away from a blade with a chisel. The chisel slipped off the blade and the employee sustained a tissue amputation to the right index finger that required sutures. | |||||
| 2019-05-03 | Chippewa Falls | Wisconsin | Walmart | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was manually unfolding the chute (wing) on a fast loader machine (sorting conveyor), so boxes could be removed from a semi-trailer and sorted into individual department carts. The employee's left middle finger was pinched between a hinge and partially amputated. | |||||
| 2019-04-05 | Chippewa Falls | Wisconsin | APG Media of WI LLC, Eau Claire | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| On April 5, 2019, at about 3:00 p.m., an employee was performing setup procedures on a press. While feeding webbing into the cylinder, the employee's right middle finger got caught in the cylinder resulting in an amputation to the finger. | |||||
| 2018-07-31 | Chippewa Falls | Wisconsin | GREAT NORTHERN CORPORATION | Fingertip(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was using a utility knife to cut corrugated cardboard. The knife cut off the tip of the employee's left middle finger. | |||||
| 2018-05-23 | Chippewa Falls | Wisconsin | Vincent Tool Technologies Corp. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was moving a piece of plate steel from the floor to a work bench using a crane with an under-hook magnet attachment when the piece of steel fell and crushed the employee's left pointer finger, resulting in partial amputation. | |||||
| 2017-07-07 | Chippewa Falls | Wisconsin | Spectrum Industries Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On July 7, 2017, at approximately 10:15 a.m., an employee was prepping material to be cut on a bandsaw. When he went to put a spacer between the bandsaw clamp, the clamp closed on and crushed his left index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2017-06-30 | Chippewa Falls | Wisconsin | Gordy's Chippewa South, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| On June 30, 2017, an employee was using a band saw to cut a frozen tube of ground beef into patties when the meat slipped and the employee's right hand contacted the blade, amputating the index finger just below the second knuckle. | |||||
| 2017-06-15 | Chippewa Falls | Wisconsin | Alliance Plastic Corp. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| On June 15, 2017, at approximately 12:00 p.m., a temporary employee suffered a partial left index fingertip amputation while clearing a jammed part on the cutter section of an extrusion line. | |||||
| 2017-03-29 | Chippewa Falls | Wisconsin | GRS Transportation, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Overexertion and bodily reaction |
| A truck driver was delivering product to a store and suffered a heart attack. | |||||
| 2017-01-07 | Chippewa Falls | Wisconsin | Gordy's Food & Liquor, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| On January 7, 2017, an employee suffered a thumb tip amputation while using a band saw to cut meat. | |||||
| 2016-10-04 | Chippewa Falls | Wisconsin | Chippewa River Industries | Hip(s) | Fall on same level |
| On October 4, 2016, an employee fell as he got up from his chair and fractured his hip. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2016-06-29 | Chippewa Falls | Wisconsin | Premium Waters, Inc | Lumbar region | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| On June 29, 2016, an employee was hospitalized due to a fall on the same level. The employee stepped on a pallet and the pallet moved, causing the employee to fall to the concrete floor resulting in a fracture of the L1 vertebrae. | |||||
| 2015-12-09 | Chippewa Falls | Wisconsin | U.S. Foods, Inc | Multiple body parts | Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object |
| An employee was disconnecting the rear trailer of a double-trailer tractor trailer when the trailer moved, pinning the employee between the trailer and another tractor trailer parked behind it. The employee suffered multiple leg fractures, a knee fracture, multiple rib fractures, and numerous contusions and bruises. | |||||
| 2015-05-15 | Chippewa Falls | Wisconsin | David E. Wilkens, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck by falling part of powered vehicle still attached |
| An employee was greasing the wheel lift on a tow truck when his hand slipped, causing the lift to fall and crush his left middle fingertip, which eventually had to be amputated. | |||||