| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-16 | Craigsville | Wv | Columbia West Virginia Corporation, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was clearing up a jam on a line for sheets of veneer. The employee's left ring finger got stuck in a pulley. The fingertip was amputated. | |||||
| 2019-05-14 | Craigsville | West Virgini | Columbia West Virginia Corp | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was checking oil on a loader. He went to shut the side engine panel/cowling when his right index finger was smashed in the hinge area of the panel, requiring surgical amputation of the bone. | |||||
| 2015-09-19 | Craigsville | West Virgini | Columbia West Virginia Corp | Head | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
| On September 19, 2015, at approximately 11:00am, a millwright was injured while spot welding a hard hydraulic line on a forklift. The line was under pressure and hydraulic fluid was not removed from the line. The line ruptured and the millwright received 2nd degree burns to the top of his head and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2015-03-29 | Craigsville | West Virgini | Jeld-Wen, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On March 29, 2015, at approximately 3:00 p.m., an employee sustained an injury to the middle finger and index finger on his right hand, resulting in amputation. The site port cover was removed from the door-facing press to blow out the fiber incline conveyor. The conveyor was not shut down at the time. An air wand got caught between the conveyor and tail roller, and the employee's hand was pulled into the framework between the air wand and the conveyor housing. | |||||
| 2015-01-20 | Craigsville | West Virgini | COLUMBIA WEST VIRGINIA CORP DBA COLUMBIA FOREST | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On January 20, 2015, the tip of an employee's left thumb was amputated while performing work on the Raimann #2 machine, which uses dies to remove knots from 4x4 sheets of plywood. | |||||