| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-04-10 | Deweyville | Texas | Western Waste of Texas, LLC | Face | Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate |
| An employee was using bolt cutters to open a transfer trailer door. The door sprung open and struck the employee in the face causing lacerations. | |||||
| 2018-04-09 | Dewey | Oklahoma | OPS Sales Company | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was using a circular saw to cut smaller pieces of wood from 2- by 3-foot wood parts. The employee was holding the wood with his gloved left hand when the saw caught his glove and pulled his hand into the blade, amputating his left thumb tip and index fingertip. | |||||
| 2018-04-05 | Dewey | Illinois | Premier Cooperative Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by handheld object or equipment |
| An employee was helping a coworker drill out bad grain with an electric drill when the employee's loose-fitting glove became entangled in the drill's chuck. The employee suffered fractures to the left index, middle, and ring fingers; a laceration to the left index finger; and a subsequent amputation of the left middle finger. | |||||
| 2017-03-20 | Dewey | Oklahoma | OPS Sales Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a slitter machine which unrolled steel coils. The coils develop slack as they are unrolled and to counter the slackness the operator manually inserts cardboard slats. As the employee inserted a slat, a gloved right hand was pulled into the coil. The middle, ring and little fingers were amputated. The thumb tip was also amputated. | |||||
| 2016-10-11 | Dewey | Illinois | Growmark, Inc. | Brain | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| While descending the stairs of fertilizer-applying equipment, an employee fell approximately 3 feet to the concrete surface below and struck the right side of the forehead, suffering a hematoma and brain bleed. | |||||
| 2016-07-08 | Deweyville | Texas | Cottonwood NRG | Multiple body parts | Explosion, n.e.c. |
| An employee was working in the fabrication shop when a transformer across the street from the shop exploded. The employee was struck by fragments from the transformer and received lacerations to his face and left arm. | |||||