Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-04-30 | Derby | Ks | Atwood Distributing LP | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
An employee was operating an electric pallet jack when the pallet jack jumped backward, smashing her thumb between the pallet jack and a cardboard bailer. The employee suffered a crushing injury to her left thumb and a possible amputation. | |||||
2017-08-08 | Derby | Kansas | Rock Surgery Center | Arm(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was washing surgical instruments in the decontamination room. She turned to take the instruments to the other sink, slipped and fell, sustaining a dislocation and a fractured humerus. | |||||
2016-06-13 | Derby | New York | National Property Management Associates, Inc. | Multiple trunk locations | Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet |
While throwing brush off a truck and down an embankment, an employee lost his balance and fell 75 feet down the embankment. He broke ribs, lacerated his spleen, and fractured his spine. |