Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-11-09 | Wellington | Fl | Excell Refrigeration, Inc. | Hand(s), except finger(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee was on a rooftop, screwing down a bolt with a wrench. The wrench slipped. He lost his balance and fell onto the screw, which lacerated the inside of his right hand. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2021-10-25 | Wellington | Ks | Scoular Company | Foot (feet) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was cleaning the interior portion of a grain bin when their foot was caught in an open sump pit where a drag was operating and their foot was fractured. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2021-04-12 | Wellington | Fl | JHM Construction, LLC | Knee(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was stripping concrete forms from a 10-foot step ladder. He lost his balance and fell 5 to 6 feet to the concrete floor below, landing on his feet and then his knees. He suffered injuries to both knees and was hospitalized. | |||||
2021-02-15 | Wellington | Fl | INTERNATIONAL POLO CLUB | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by animal, n.e.c. |
An employee was performing his duties and was struck by a horse, resulting in fractured ribs. | |||||
2021-02-09 | Ellington | Ct | Rice Packaging, Inc. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
A machine operator was walking around a machine to do a quality check of finished product. He turned a corner, stepped on a broom, and fell onto a chair sustaining a cracked rib. | |||||
2020-09-22 | Wellington | Oh | SHILOH INDUSTRIES INC. DBA WELLINGTON STAMPING | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
On September 22, 2020, an employee was lifting a die with an overhead gantry crane and a four-legged lifting device. His right index finger was partially amputated when it was pinched between a lifting leg and the die. | |||||
2020-07-18 | Wellington | Kansas | Progressive Ag Coop | Arm(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker |
An employee was on the ground using a chain saw to cut a tree that was storm-damaged when he slipped and dropped the chain saw. He then fell on the saw blade, cutting his arm and requiring hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
2020-03-03 | Wellington | Florida | WEP Polo Operations, LLC | Upper and lower limb(s) | Struck by animal |
An employee was judging a polo match and was struck by a horse. The employee was hospitalized with a broken leg and a dislocated shoulder. | |||||
2018-07-13 | Wellington | Florida | Wilco Electrical, LLC | Nonclassifiable | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
A lineman was working on a switch from a bucket, covering electrical power lines with blankets and sleeves. As he reached for a jumper, his sweat-soaked shirt touched a hot jumper at the right arm while his left sleeve touched the switch bracket. A flash occurred, and he suffered first- and second-degree burns. | |||||
2018-02-26 | Wellington | Colorado | Advance Tank and Construction Co. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was using a magnetic drill press to drill holes into a C-channel. The employee was trying to hold the press in place with a strap, which was wrapped around the employee's left hand and became caught in the drill. The strap then crushed the employee's left index finger, resulting in a partial amputation above the knuckle. | |||||
2018-01-30 | Wellington | Florida | Barnett Management | Ankle(s) | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee was opening a gate for a delivery truck when the truck ran over the employee's right foot, fracturing the ankle. | |||||
2017-06-25 | Wellington | Florida | Pier 1 Imports (U.S.), Inc | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level |
An employee fell from an 8-foot A-frame ladder, suffering a skull fracture, rib fractures, a vertebrae body compression injury, and a chest cavity injury. | |||||
2017-01-18 | Wellington | Ohio | Cleveland City Forge, Inc. | Scalp | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was running a machine when his hair became caught in it. His hair and scalp were then removed. | |||||
2016-10-12 | Ellington | Missouri | Healthcare Services Group, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate |
An employee closed her finger in the door when leaving the office. As a result her left index finger was broken. | |||||
2016-07-27 | Wellington | Florida | Pinnacle Mangement Services | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c. |
An employee was driving a golf cart and hit a tree. He was having chest pain and went to the hospital. | |||||
2016-04-28 | Wellington | Florida | G & G Industrial Services Inc. | Lower extremities | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee was struck by a forklift transporting materials while controlling traffic at a construction site. The employee suffered fractures to lower extremities. | |||||
2016-04-20 | Wellington | Kansas | TECT Aerospace | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was cutting wood using a table saw. The employee's right hand contacted the saw blade resulting in multiple lacerations to the right hand index, ring and pinky fingers. Two digits were amputated. | |||||
2015-08-28 | Wellington | Florida | Della Rossa Plumbing & Solar "LLC" | Sole(s) | Stepped on object |
An employee was gluing a piece under a bathroom sink when the sink fell. The employee stood up and attempted to step over the broken pieces, which cut through his sneakers and cut the bottom of his foot. | |||||
2015-06-29 | Wellington | Kansas | Cornejo and Sons, Inc. | Knee(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
On 6/29/2015, at 12:30 p.m., an employee was backed into by a company pickup truck, which knocked him down. The tires ran over his legs (knees). | |||||
2015-01-28 | Wellington | Ohio | SHILOH INDUSTRIES INC. DBA WELLINGTON STAMPING | Hand(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
On or about January 28, 2015, an employee sustained crush/amputation injuries to the right hand while removing a jammed part on the OBI Press. | |||||
2015-01-20 | Ellington | Connecticut | Merrill Industries | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee sustained an amputation injury to the tip of the middle finger on his left hand while clearing a jam on a Global Partition Slotter, which makes slots in corrugated cardboard. The employee reached into an area 3x4" wide, 2' long while the equipment was running. The equipment was not guarded at the time, nor was it shut down or locked out. |