| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-17 | Dodge City | Ks | Accurate Construction, Inc. | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall to lower level |
| An employee was inspecting an object at the edge of a middle-level floor. He lost his balance and fell to the ground-level floor, suffering injuries to the spleen and kidney. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-09-16 | Dodge City | Ks | Cargill Meat Solutions | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
| An employee was scrubbing a plastic tub when his left middle finger was pinched between the plastic tub and the floor, resulting in a blood blister. The injury became infected. | |||||
| 2021-08-01 | Dodge City | Ks | BNSF (Dodge City) | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| A crew was loading material into the bed of a boom truck with a tag line on one end. An employee was steadying a bundle of I-beams as they were being hoisted onto a boom truck. The load shifted and pinched his right middle finger, resulting in an amputation. | |||||
| 2021-06-14 | Dodge City | Ks | National Beef Packing Company, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was shackling livestock when his finger contacted the chain and tension bar, resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2021-02-16 | Dodge City | Ks | Cargill Meat Solutions | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was shackling a cow's leg when the employee's mesh glove was caught in the shackle chain, resulting in a partial amputation of the left ring finger pad. | |||||
| 2020-09-17 | Dodge City | Ks | United Telephone Association, Inc. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was climbing an extension ladder to enter the attic. The bottom of the ladder slid out and the employee fell 6-8 feet hitting his left ribs on a metal sink. The employee sustained eight broken ribs. | |||||
| 2020-02-28 | Dodge City | Kansas | National Beef | Face | Struck by animal |
| An employee was pushing cattle in the pens when a steer jumped the 10-foot gate and struck the employee causing multiple facial fractures and a laceration across the nose. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2020-01-16 | Dodge City | Kansas | NATIONAL BEEF | Leg(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| While attempting to realign a crate, an employee slipped and fell to the same level. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured leg. | |||||
| 2019-08-19 | Dodge City | Kansas | Swift Transportation Co. Inc. | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
| An employee was guiding a student who was backing a trailer into a parking spot when the employee was pinned between the trailer and a parked trailer. He was hospitalized with kidney/liver contusions. | |||||
| 2019-07-09 | Dodge City | Kansas | National Beef | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was using a production band saw to cut beef. The saw amputated the tip of his finger. | |||||
| 2019-06-17 | Dodge City | Kansas | Winter Feed Yard | Leg(s) | Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle |
| An employee was fixing a tractor when it moved and struck the employee. The employee suffered a left leg injury. | |||||
| 2019-04-10 | Dodge City | Kansas | Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. | Leg(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| A temporary Jacobs Engineering employee's leg was caught in the deck of a mower. His leg was broken. | |||||
| 2018-07-01 | Dodge City | Kansas | Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation | Ankle(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| At 9:00 p.m., an employee was working in the skinning line on a killing floor when a knife he was using cut his left ankle. | |||||
| 2018-01-03 | Dodge | Nebraska | Parkview Home | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was walking to a dumpster to throw away trash when she slipped and fell on ice, injuring her hip and requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2017-08-25 | Dodge City | Kansas | Murphy Tractor & Equipment Co. | Foot (feet) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee and a coworker were moving a loader and a coupler, which was on a pallet. They began prepping the coupler to be attached to a hoist's boom. They partially attached the coupler to the boom when the sling broke, causing the coupler to fall down and strike the injured employee's left shin and foot. He suffered metatarsal fractures and tarsometatarsal dislocations. | |||||
| 2017-07-13 | Dodge City | Kansas | NATIONAL BEEF PACKING CO. L.P. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee experienced muscle cramps while driving cattle from cattle pens to a plant. The employee was hospitalized overnight for dehydration. | |||||
| 2017-06-14 | Dodge City | Kansas | Cargill Meat Solution | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was hand scrubbing a stainless steel hinged folding product chute when the chute closed on the employee's left pinky finger, fracturing it and amputating the fingertip. | |||||
| 2017-06-10 | Dodge City | Kansas | NATIONAL BEEF PACKING CO. L.P. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was packaging products into boxes on a conveyor line when the employee's hand slipped between the conveyor belt and a broken guard, de-gloving the ring finger down to the base of the nail which was then amputated. | |||||
| 2017-01-06 | Dodge City | Kansas | Cargill Meat Solution | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was working on a saw when his right index finger came in contact with the saw blade resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2016-10-10 | Dodge City | Kansas | Lineage Logistics-Dodge City | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Collision between a moving and standing vehicle, nonroadway |
| Employee #1 was operating a stand-up forklift with forks trailing, headed south on a dock area. Employee #2 was also operating a stand-up forklift with forks trailing in the direction of employee #1. Employee #1 stopped his forklift to activate a door's pull cord to enter a freezer when his forklift was struck by the forklift of employee #2. The back-to-back impact caused Employee #2's left foot to become caught between both forklifts, fracturing the big toe and partially amputating the fourth | |||||
| 2016-09-07 | Dodge City | Kansas | National Beef | Lower leg(s) | Kicked by animal |
| An employee sustained a broken tibia when he was kicked by a cow while working in the cattle pen. | |||||
| 2016-04-22 | Dodge City | Kansas | Brahma Group | Hand(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was cleaning when a valve failure caused hot water and steam to release in the area where he was working. He suffered second degree burns on both hands and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2015-12-08 | Dodge City | Kansas | Packers Sanitation Services Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning the end of an auger when his left middle fingertip was amputated. The auger was not shut off at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2015-09-10 | Dodge City | Kansas | Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was attaching clamps to a hide at the side puller station on the kill side of the plant when his left thumb got caught in the clamp. He sustained a left thumb avulsion. | |||||
| 2015-09-05 | Dodge City | Kansas | National Beef Packing Co LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| While cleaning the blade area on a hock cutter the "double trigger" was inadvertently activated resulting in the amputation of the left index finger to the first knuckle and a partial amputation of the tip of the middle finger. | |||||
| 2015-07-31 | Dodge City | Kansas | NATIONAL BEEF | Ankle(s) | Climbing or stepping up or down-single episode |
| An employee stepped up 6-1/2 inches to his work station and rolled his ankle, fracturing it and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2015-07-10 | Dodgeville | Wisconsin | Burnham Lumber Company, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was using a step ladder to help erect a pole barn. He fell off when the step ladder tipped, fracturing a heel and some ribs. | |||||
| 2015-03-26 | Dodge City | Kansas | Cargill Meat Solutions | Brain | Nonclassifiable |
| An employee was found near a night watch station located close to knife room #1. He was walking disoriented and was unable to speak or hear. The accident occurred around 1:50 p.m. He was hospitalized with swelling on the right side of his head. | |||||