Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-07-09 | Darlington | Wi | Wisconsin Whey Protein Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was cleaning equipment when the star valve on the equipment amputated four fingers on the employee's left hand. The equipment was running at the time. | |||||
2021-03-26 | Darlington | Wi | Mexican Cheese Producers, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was maneuvering a cheese cart when one of the cheese tubes on the cart came loose and struck his thumb, resulting in a partial amputation of the left thumb tip. | |||||
2020-10-19 | Darlington | Pa | Danzer Veneer Americas | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was walking down a set of steps on the grading line. A leg from a pallet rack was blocking their path and when the employee tried to step over the obstacle, he missed the next step and fell forward onto the floor. The employee sustained a broken left leg. | |||||
2018-08-29 | Darlington | Wisconsin | Growmark, Inc. | Brain | Explosion, n.e.c. |
An employee was dismantling a lubricant barrel with a torch when it exploded. The explosive force blew out the bottom of the drum, which flew up and struck the employee's face, smashing the welding helmet he was wearing, sending him backwards, and causing him to hit his head on the concrete floor. He suffered facial lacerations, a skull fracture, and bleeding on the brain. | |||||
2016-09-28 | Darlington | Wisconsin | WS AG CENTER, INC. | Thigh(s) | Excavation or trenching cave-in |
An employee was digging out a trench when the trench collapsed and broke the employee's femur. | |||||
2015-01-16 | Darlington | Pennsylvania | Danzer Veneer of America | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Nonclassifiable |
An employee damaged tendons in two fingers and was admitted to the hospital. |