| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-07 | Crete | Ne | Smithfield Farmland | Hand(s) and finger(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was replacing a conveyor belt when his right hand was caught between the belt and the sprocket. His hand and fingers were crushed in the sprocket and he was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-01-26 | Crete | Ne | Smithfield Foods | Knee(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was walking down the stairs when he tripped and fell onto the floor sustaining a fractured knee. | |||||
| 2020-09-26 | Crete | Ne | Crete Core Ingredients | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Collision between a moving and standing vehicle, nonroadway |
| An employee was operating a forklift when it backed into the forks of another forklift. The forks lacerated the employee's chest. | |||||
| 2020-09-15 | Crete | Ne | PACKERS SANITATION SERVICES, INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was scrubbing the framework of a stand that held a tabletop scale. As the employee moved the scale, it fell to the floor and onto his left middle finger and amputated 1/4 inch of the finger. | |||||
| 2020-08-24 | Crete | Ne | Smithfield Foods | Knee(s) | Kneeling, kneeling down-single episode |
| An employee suffered a dislocated kneecap while squatting to inspect a pallet. | |||||
| 2020-05-06 | Crete | Nebraska | Crete Core Ingredients | Foot (feet) | Nonroadway collision with other vehicle |
| An employee was driving a forklift in the warehouse freezer. When he came to a stop, he slid into the forks of another forklift and hit his left foot on the forks, causing a soft tissue injury. | |||||
| 2020-02-17 | Crete | Nebraska | Smithfield Farmland | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a ham skinner. His right ring fingertip was caught and lacerated in the skinner. | |||||
| 2020-02-13 | Crete | Nebraska | Smithfield Farmland | Leg(s) | Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway |
| An employee was shutting end gates in the back of a semi trailer. The trailer pulled away and the employee fell out, suffering a broken right leg. | |||||
| 2019-06-15 | Crete | Nebraska | Crete Core Ingredients | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning the inside of an incline auger when the running blade amputated her right middle fingertip. | |||||
| 2019-01-23 | Crete | Nebraska | Crete Core Ingredients | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was operating a block chopper. A frozen block of product was not feeding properly. While the employee was adjusting it with a meat hook, the chopper grabbed the hook and the employee's right little finger was pinched between the hook and the chopper's feed shoot. The fingertip was amputated. | |||||
| 2018-03-30 | Crete | Illinois | Dutch American Foods Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee's right hand was inside a pneumatic-powered slide gate of a blender clearing debris when the slide gate valve amputated the employee's index finger. | |||||
| 2018-01-12 | Crete | Nebraska | Americold Logistics, LLC | Hand(s) and finger(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was operating a standup forklift when his left hand was crushed between the forklift and a rack, fracturing four metacarpals and his thumb. | |||||
| 2017-08-02 | Crete | Nebraska | BUNGE MILLIG, INC. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was attempting to retrieve a sifter cube from a roll stand containing two inward moving feeder rolls. The employee's right hand became caught between the feeder roll and the feeder roll guard. The employee was able to pull his hand free, but sustained a crushing injury to the hand. | |||||
| 2017-06-19 | Crete | Nebraska | Smithfield Foods | Hand(s), except finger(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was skinning hams on a pedestal skinner. As he pushed down on the end of the ham, his hand rolled over and the skinner caught the top of his right hand, avulsing it. He was wearing the correct PPE at the time. | |||||
| 2016-04-24 | Crete | Nebraska | Smithfield Farmland | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was performing maintenance on a skinner machine when his right hand came in contact with the skinner blade, amputating the third fingertip above the joint and below the nail cuticle. | |||||
| 2016-02-19 | Crete | Nebraska | Smithfield Foods, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was pressing bacon when the press malfunctioned. While the employee was attempting to diagnose the problem, the machine cycled and crushed the employee's left hand in the point of operation, fracturing the pinky, ring, and thumb fingers and causing severe lacerations. The press was not locked out at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2015-03-16 | Crete | Nebraska | AMERICOLD LOGISTICS LLC | Foot (feet) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was relocating a pallet using a pallet jack. She stuck her foot out and pinned it between the palette jack and a yellow post resulting in a broken bone in her left foot. | |||||