Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-08-12 | Evansville | In | United States Postal Service | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was driving a delivery truck and walking while performing a city delivery route when they began to experience heat-related dehydration. | |||||
2020-01-23 | Evansville | Wisconsin | Bluescope Buildings North America, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was standing near stacked steel beams, using a handheld remote to raise the top beam with a crane. When the beam was lifted up, the bottom beam became unstable and shifted off the dunnage onto the employee's right leg. The employee suffered a compound fracture of the lower leg. | |||||
2017-09-18 | Evansville | Wisconsin | Seneca Foods Corporation | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
The lima bean combine harvester was having infeed problems. An employee climbed up on the machine head to observe the problem. The harvester operator was unaware the employee was there and raised the machine head. The employee was struck/pinched by the machine head fracturing three ribs. | |||||
2016-01-13 | Evansville | Wisconsin | Metal Culverts, Inc. | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was walking into the building and had snow on the bottom of his shoes. He slipped and fell, breaking his ankle. | |||||
2015-07-01 | Evansville | Wisconsin | Landmark Services Cooperative | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was stacking tire rims when a stack began to fall. The employee tried to catch the falling tire rims, which crushed his pinky finger on his left hand. His pinky finger was surgically amputated to the first knuckle. |