| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-06 | Selma | Al | Bush Hog, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee and a co-worker were replacing an air filter in a dust collector using a scissor lift. The co-worker pushed the filter with his foot so that the employee on the ground could grab the filter when the employee's finger was smashed between the filter and the scissor lift, resulting in an avulsion and an amputation of the right ring fingertip. | |||||
| 2021-06-26 | Selma | Al | HENRY BRICK COMPANY, INC. | Hand(s) | Struck by rolling object or equipment-other than powered vehicle |
| An employee was transferring a charging car into a kiln when his hand became caught between the kiln frame and the transfer car, resulting in a crushing injury. | |||||
| 2021-03-01 | Selma | Al | H & S Wood Products | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a chop saw and amputated his left index and middle fingers to the first knuckles. | |||||
| 2020-03-24 | Selma | Alabama | Sunbelt Forest Ventures, LLC | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was in a sawmill's re-cutting machine, clearing out a jam. The machine activated. The employee suffered three broken toes, one of which had its tip amputated. | |||||
| 2020-03-04 | Selma | North Caroli | US Postal Service | Multiple body parts | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| A mail carrier was delivering mail to a residence. While running from a barking dog, the mail carrier fell and struck their head against the wheel of a customer's car. The mail carrier sustained fractures to an eye socket, the right shoulder, and left elbow. | |||||
| 2020-02-21 | Selma | Texas | Gillman Subaru of San Antonio, Inc. | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Overexertion in pushing, pulling, or turning-single episode |
| An employee had been pushing a car and later collapsed to the floor with chest pains and was coughing up blood. The employee was hospitalized with a tear where the esophagus and stomach meet. | |||||
| 2019-09-14 | Selma | Texas | Crestview RV Superstore | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee had been performing their regular duties as a sales representative which include talking with customers outside and showing RVs. She suffered heat stroke. | |||||
| 2019-03-21 | Selma | Texas | A Caring Doctor | Knee(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee's foot hit a shredding recycling bin as she walked. She fell on her right knee, injuring it. | |||||
| 2018-08-02 | Selma | Alabama | Bush Hog, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was assembling a flex wing with a coworker. They had to line up three holes and place pins in them to secure the alignment. The injured employee's finger was in the center hole lining up the hole for the pin when the coworker moved the assembly, pinching the employee's right middle finger and resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2018-07-25 | Selma | Texas | Tommy Harral Construction Inc. | Knee(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| At approximately 3:15 p.m. on 25 July 2018, an employee was cutting pipe with a saw when the saw lacerated his knee, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2018-06-11 | Benkelman | Nebraska | Diamond Vogel Paint | Brain | Roadway collision-moving in same direction |
| Three employees were on a paint truck applying paint stripping on the highway when a semi-trailer struck the rear of the paint truck flipping it over. Two employees were hospitalized for a concussion, brain bleeding and broken ribs. | |||||
| 2018-06-08 | Selma | Alabama | Miller & Company, Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was standing behind the planer/molder machine operator. The employee reached around the machine operator, grabbed a piece of wood flooring, and pulled it forward into the top cutter head. His right hand made contact with the cutter head resulting in severe lacerations to the third, fourth and fifth fingers. The fourth and fifth fingers were amputated. | |||||
| 2018-04-24 | Selma | Alabama | Globe Metallurgical, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Struck bump, hole, rough terrain on driving surface, nonroadway |
| An employee was transporting a ladle from the furnace to the casting area using an industrial truck. The front tire hit a pothole causing the molten silicon to spill to the ground which caused an explosion resulting in second degree burns to the employee's face, upper back, left arm and neck. | |||||
| 2018-04-05 | Selma | Texas | RTM CONSTRUCTION CO. INC. | Ankle(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker |
| An employee was cutting wire with a quickie saw to remove the core of a storm drain structure. When he got to the last wire, the concrete fell on the saw and knocked it out of his hand. The saw landed on his left ankle, lacerating it. | |||||
| 2018-02-11 | Selma | Texas | Council oaks Community Options, Ltd. | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee tripped over a walker and fell fracturing her hip. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-01-31 | Selma | Alabama | Bush Hog, Inc. | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was operating a shot blaster to clean parts. He mounted a platform on the shot blaster to remove a part from the machine. He then stepped back off the platform, lost his balance, and fell less than 48 inches to the floor, breaking his right hip. | |||||
| 2018-01-11 | Selma | Alabama | R. L. Zeigler Co., Inc. | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was transferring palletized material (shipping boxes, not formed) to other pallets when he tripped on the corner of a pallet and fell, breaking his left femur and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-09-30 | Selma | Alabama | INTERNATIONAL PAPER | Brain | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
| An employee was driving a truck on the gravel road near the water treatment pond. The employee lost control of the truck and it rolled over. The employee sustained a head injury. | |||||
| 2017-08-04 | Selma | Texas | John B. Sanfilippo & Son, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was working with a mechanic to repair a nut processing machine when the machine was energized. The machine amputated the employee's right index fingertip. | |||||
| 2017-08-01 | Selma | Alabama | Asphalt Contractors, Inc. | Forearm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was working on the tail pulley of the cold feed bin, trying to center the belt. The employee's wrench slipped and his right arm was caught in the pulley resulting in the amputation of the right arm from the elbow down. | |||||
| 2017-05-07 | Velma | Oklahoma | PAN AMERICA ELECTRIC , INC. | Ankle(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| A transformer slid off a forklift's forks and landed on an employee's ankle. The employee sustained an open fracture and needed surgery. | |||||
| 2016-04-26 | Belmar | New Jersey | Linde-Griffith Construction Company | Lower leg(s) | Injured by handheld object or equipment |
| An employee was helping to lower metal sheets into place for ground stability when the wind caught one of the sheets, causing it to strike the employee's leg. The employee suffered a broken tibia and fibula. | |||||
| 2016-02-25 | Selma | Alabama | GAAG, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee's right forefinger was smashed between a sheet of glass and the lifting arm. | |||||
| 2016-02-11 | Elma | New York | Glauber Equipment Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee had just completed performing preventative maintenance on a blower unit. When the employee restarted the equipment to determine if it was functioning, his right middle finger was caught in the belt and pulley, amputating the finger at the first joint. The belt guard was not in place at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2016-01-13 | Selma | Alabama | Zilkha Biomass Selma,LLC | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was inspecting work near a 5000 gallon hot water tank. Water sprayed out of the tank and knocked the employee down. The employee sustained burns to his hands, feet and chest from the 200 degree water. | |||||
| 2015-11-12 | Selma | Alabama | Vaughan Regional Medical Center | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee tripped and fell on a rug, breaking her hip | |||||
| 2015-10-12 | Benkelman | Nebraska | Murfin Drilling | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee fell from an drilling derrick while in the process of disassembling the unit. The employee suffered injuries to the head, face and right leg as a result of the fall. | |||||
| 2015-08-12 | Selma | Alabama | AT Services Inc. | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee received 2nd degree burns on 27% of his body from contact with hot water when his safety vest caught a valve handle that opened while inspecting a heat exchanger. | |||||
| 2015-06-18 | Belmar | New Jersey | Nelson Tree Service | Foot (feet) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| While cutting a small tree into sections, an employee's left foot was cut by the chain saw he was operating. | |||||
| 2015-05-01 | Delmar | Delaware | Amick Farms | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was attempting to put bails of hay into a pulley when his hand slipped between the pulley and belt partially amputating the middle finger on his hand. | |||||
| 2015-03-10 | Selma | Alabama | BI-LO Holdings | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee who was unloading pallets tripped on plastic packing at the same level, fell, and broke his right hip. | |||||