Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2021-07-09 | Corinth | Ms | Alcorn County Electric Power Association | Head and trunk | Struck by object or equipment |
An employee was setting utility poles. A pole slipped and struck the employee's hard hat causing head and chest trauma. | |||||
2021-06-25 | Corinth | Ms | B and B Concrete Co., Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
The operator of a front-end loader was on the ground helping to move a metal hopper on the loader bucket. Their left index finger was caught between the loader bucket and the metal hopper resulting in loss of the pad of the finger. | |||||
2020-01-20 | Corinth | Mississippi | Mississippi Polymers, Inc | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was working on a wind-out and putting a calendar on the roll. While he was guiding the roll holding the bar, the roll slipped and pinched the tip of his left index finger, resulting in a finger amputation. | |||||
2019-05-24 | Corinth | Mississippi | Lacosta Facility Support Services | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was working on a conveyor system trying to replace a chain that got out of the sprocket. The employee's middle finger was caught on the sprocket and amputated. | |||||
2018-07-13 | Corinth | Mississippi | Lacosta, Inc. | Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) | Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle |
An employee exited a lift truck to undo the strap on a core buggy. The lift truck rolled onto and pinched him. He suffered a broken clavicle. The lift truck's emergency park brake was not in place at the time of the incident. | |||||
2016-07-28 | Corinth | Mississippi | Mississippi Polymers, INC. | Hand(s), except finger(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was cleaning a blender with the air-actuated discharge valve open for cleaning inside the blender. The employee's right hand was inside the opening with a rag. The switch that opened and closed the valve was bumped, and the valve gate closed on her right hand. The injury was just above the knuckles. She was hospitalized for surgery. | |||||
2016-04-30 | Corinth | New York | Equity Lifestyle Properties | Pelvis | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was checking in vehicles at an RV park. As she exited the guard shack, she missed a step and fell approximately 2 feet to the ground and fractured her pelvis. | |||||
2016-01-31 | Corinth | Mississippi | MISSISSIPPI POLYMERS | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee's right middle and ring fingers were amputated when his hand became trapped between cooling rolls while checking for defects in the web. | |||||
2015-10-02 | Corinth | Mississippi | MS Polymers, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was installing tape to hold the paper protector on a metal roller. The employee's right finger got caught and crushed in the drive gear located next to the roller. | |||||
2015-09-28 | Corinth | Mississippi | MS Polymers, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was cleaning a print roller when the rag that he was using got caught and pulled his hand into the rollers. His fingers were crushed. | |||||
2015-05-08 | Corinth | Mississippi | CATERPILLAR, INC. | Fingertip(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was resting his left hand on the edge of a roll-over fixture as he used a 2.5-pound "dead-blow hammer" with his right hand to level a cylinder head on the fixture in the salvage drill bed. When he raised the hammer, it struck something above and deflected down onto his left middle finger. He sustained a partial fingertip amputation, losing his fingernail and fleshy fingertip; there was no bone damage. | |||||
2015-01-08 | Corinth | Maine | Underwood Electric, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level |
Around 10 am yesterday morning, an employee fell from an aerial lift while working on a pellet unit. |