Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-09-28 | Conway | Ar | DBG Arkansas, LLC. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
As an employee was operating a brake press, their hand became caught in a pinch point, making contact with the material being bent and the upper die ram. Two of the employee's right-hand fingertips were amputated. | |||||
2021-09-27 | Conway | Nh | Profile Subaru, Inc. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by other falling powered vehicle |
An employee was working under a truck. The truck fell off its lift and pinned the employee, who suffered broken ribs. | |||||
2021-09-01 | Conway | Ar | Quality Roofing Contractors | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was using a hose to spread a lightweight mixture on the roof of a building when he began to suffer symptoms of heat stress, which included cramps, and was unable to move. The employee was hospitalized with heat exhaustion. | |||||
2021-08-31 | Conway | Ar | ERA TEAM Real Estate | Pelvis | Fall on same level due to tripping |
An employee was helping to move a desk when they tripped an fell. The employee was hospitalized for a broken pelvis. | |||||
2021-05-21 | Conway | Ar | Conway Corporation | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was on top of a ladder pulling network cable through an open ceiling to wire for a security camera. The bottom of the ladder slipped out and the employee fell close to the wall. A large piece of crown molding was sticking out from the wall and the employee hit his head on it as he fell. The employee was rendered unconscious and was hospitalized for a head injury and a laceration above the right eye. | |||||
2021-05-21 | Conway | Ar | The Giving Table | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
A temporary employee was using the wood jointer and amputated the tip of his right pinky finger. | |||||
2020-09-28 | Conway | Ar | NABHOLZ CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION | Thigh(s) | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
An employee was operating a backhoe carrying a bucket full of dirt. He approached a wall and prepared to dump the dirt against it; as he was raising the bucket, the backhoe's front tire fell into a soft spot and the backhoe tipped over. The employee suffered a broken left femur. | |||||
2020-09-25 | Conway | Pa | ANDRITZ Herr-Voss Stamco | Ankle(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
An employee was making a 13-inch bushing on a vertical turning lathe. The lathe moved down and in, causing the chuck to break free and strike the employee's left ankle. It broke the ankle and lacerated the employee's left foot. | |||||
2020-09-08 | Conway | Ar | KIMBERLY-CLARK CORP., CONWAY MILLS | Ankle(s) and leg(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker |
An employee removed the floor anchor bolts on an arbor press. While moving the press manually, it tipped over and struck the employee on the shin and ankle. | |||||
2020-06-11 | Conway | Arkansas | Mid-South Sales, LLC | Elbow(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was preparing to close the roll-up door on the back of a package delivery truck. He stepped backwards to place his foot on the lift gate and fell approximately 5 feet to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a dislocated and fractured elbow that required surgery. | |||||
2020-04-17 | Conway | Arkansas | Associated Farmers Cooperative | Brain | Fall on same level |
An employee was going into a warehouse when he fell, striking and injuring his head. | |||||
2020-03-06 | Conway | Arkansas | DBG Conway LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was pressing bus parts using a 90-ton press. The machine actuated and amputated the tips of eight of the employee's fingers. | |||||
2019-08-03 | Conway | Arkansas | CORESLAB STRUCTURES (ARK) INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee loaded a piece of rebar onto a rebar bending machine. His finger was in a pinch point between the end of the rebar and a positive stop on the machine when the machine was cycled, resulting in an amputation of the upper portion of his left index finger. | |||||
2018-09-14 | Conway Springs | Kansas | D J Extruding | Nonclassifiable | Contact with hot objects or substances |
Two employees were working around an extrusion machine when it overheated and sprayed molten aluminum on them. They were hospitalized with burns. | |||||
2018-05-30 | Conway | Arkansas | Virco Manufacturing Corporation | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was hospitalized for heat stress after experiencing severe cramping in his legs, arms, and abdomen. | |||||
2018-05-15 | Conway | Arkansas | SFI Fabrication | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was operating a 1,250-ton press brake to bend parts. As a part was being bent by the press dies, it swung up toward the face of the ram. The employee was still holding the part, and his right middle and ring fingertips were then pinched and amputated between the part and the front of the machine. | |||||
2018-04-27 | Conway | Arkansas | Express Employment Professionals | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was helping a second employee feed corrugated fiberboard sheets into a slotter machine at approximately 16:15. They determined that a piece of tape was creating issues with the sheets as they fed them into the machine. The first employee was attempting to remove a piece of the tape when the machine cut his left little finger, resulting in an amputation. | |||||
2017-10-09 | Conway | Arkansas | Coreslab Structures Arkansas Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Entangled in other object or equipment |
An employee was helping two other employees untwist metal strands from a pack when a strand quickly pulled back into the twisted position and amputated the employee's right index fingertip. | |||||
2017-08-02 | Conway | Arkansas | Manhattan Road & Bridge Company | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 21 to 25 feet |
An employee was helping to remove forms from a parapet wall over the interstate. Tension was being placed on the form from the opposite side to assist in the removal. The form broke loose from the parapet wall, swung, and struck the scaffold guardrail and the employee. The guardrail broke, and the employee fell approximately 25 feet to the shoulder of the roadway, breaking a leg and suffering lumbar fractures. | |||||
2017-07-17 | Conway | Arkansas | Tokusen USA, Inc | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee who had worked his normal 12 hour shift went home and was later hospitalized for dehydration. | |||||
2016-10-11 | Conway | Arkansas | AGE Industries | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was operating a tube winder when three of his right-hand fingers were caught in the main winding belt. His pointer finger was surgically amputated to the first knuckle, and his ring finger broke and required surgery. | |||||
2016-01-28 | Conway | Arkansas | Virco Manufacturing Corporation | Multiple body parts | Ignition of clothing from controlled heat source |
An employee was hospitalized after his shirt caught fire while welding. The employee suffered burns to the torso, left axilla, right forearm and right hand. | |||||
2015-10-29 | Conway | Arkansas | CARTI | BODY SYSTEMS | Direct exposure to electricity |
An employee was making repairs to the linear acceleration machine when he received an electrical discharge to his head. | |||||
2015-10-12 | Conway | Arkansas | The Southern Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
An employee was trying to line up a symmetrical pump in a pit. The pump dropped on both hands causing severe lacerations to both hands and a partial left finger amputation. | |||||
2015-08-18 | Conway | Arkansas | ARAMARK | Foot (feet) and ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was carrying a carton of eggs downstairs at the cafeteria. She missed the bottom stair and fell to the ground, fracturing her left ankle/foot and spraining her right ankle. She was hospitalized. | |||||
2015-08-10 | Conway | Arkansas | Joe Gault | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was using a Skilsaw to cut a post. The saw, which was guarded, kicked back and amputated the pinky, ring, and middle fingers of the employee's right hand. | |||||
2015-07-14 | Conway | Arkansas | Chick-Fila-A,Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Intentional injury by other person |
Two employees were injured during an attempted robbery with a weapon. | |||||
2015-06-25 | Conway | Arkansas | IC Bus, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to harmful substances or environments |
An employee was sweating profusely when he came out of the painting booth where he was working. His condition worsened and he was hospitalized overnight. |