| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-18 | Grand Forks | Nd | Swanson & Youngdale, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee developed heat exhaustion (chest tightness, tiredness, and a headache) while hanging drywall. | |||||
| 2021-06-21 | Grand Forks | Nd | Master Construction Co., Inc. | Leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| An employee was working on a project to install a phone line when they were struck by the back side of a cable trenching plow, resulting in crush injuries to their legs and the amputation of their right leg. | |||||
| 2021-06-14 | Grand Forks | Nd | Young Manufacturing, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was operating a mechanical punch press when their left hand was crushed by the press, resulting in a finger amputation. | |||||
| 2021-05-19 | Grand Forks | Nd | J. R. Simplot Company | Lower leg(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was driving a stand-up powered industrial truck (PIT) to the charging station and struck a cement reinforcement barrier. The employee was pinned between the PIT and the cement reinforcement barrier, resulting in the amputation of their lower left leg. | |||||
| 2021-02-23 | Grand Forks | Nd | Development Homes Inc. | Ankle(s) and leg(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was applying salt to an icy sidewalk when they slipped and fell, resulting in a fractured right leg and ankle. | |||||
| 2020-06-25 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | Minn-Dak Growers LTD | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
| An employee was working on a grain dryer door when the door moved and pinched his right thumb, resulting in a thumb fracture and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2020-03-11 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | Altru Health System | Knee(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee slipped on ice while walking to her car and fell, suffering a knee injury. She was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-07-25 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | Hood Packaging Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was cleaning small pieces of material off a fan when the fan cut his fingers, resulting in amputations to his thumb, index finger, and middle finger. | |||||
| 2019-06-24 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | Philadelphia Macaroni Company | Hand(s) and arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning the hydraulics on a macaroni press. The machine started and crushed the employee's arm and hand, breaking two bones. The machine was not locked out at the time. | |||||
| 2019-05-16 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | Steffes, LLC | Wrist(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was polishing a rod using an emery cloth and a lathe. The employee's left hand was caught in the lathe resulting in a fractured wrist. | |||||
| 2019-03-04 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | LM Wind Power Blades (ND), Inc. | Arm(s) | Fall on same level |
| An employee was repairing the inside of a turbine blade when he fell onto a sharp edge protruding from the work surface. The employee sustained a laceration to his right arm requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2019-03-03 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | LM Wind Power Blades (ND), Inc. | Hand(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was repositioning a cart under a mold. The employee's hand was between the mold and the cart when the mold suddenly dropped into the cart. The employee sustained crushing injuries to the right hand. | |||||
| 2019-02-04 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | LM Wind Power Blades (ND), Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning out glass fibers in a small channel that houses a cutting blade on a cutting machine and suffered a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2019-01-23 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | J.R. Simplot Company | Pelvis | Fall to lower level |
| An employee was on a 6-foot A-frame ladder, doing maintenance in a packaging area. The ladder twisted and/or collapsed, causing the employee to fall to the floor and suffer a broken pelvis. | |||||
| 2018-09-14 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | Tri-steel Manufacturing Company | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was adjusting the blade tension on a band saw when the blade amputated the employee's fingertip. The band saw was running at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2018-05-26 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | Supervalu, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was attempting to remove dough from a slot in the dough hopper when the donut press sheared off his fingertip. | |||||
| 2018-04-07 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | Valley Markets, Inc. | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Bending, crawling, reaching, twisting-single episode |
| An employee twisted to reach for something while working at the counter and experienced severe back pain, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2018-03-28 | Forks Township | Pennsylvania | Bakerly Barn, LLC | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was initiating the cleaning process for a crepe cooker when the employee's hand was crushed and burned between two rotating drums. The crepe cooker was unguarded at the time. | |||||
| 2018-02-13 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | J.R. Simplot Company | Foot (feet) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee sustained second degree thermal burns to his feet from hot water while cleaning equipment in the facility. | |||||
| 2017-09-06 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | J.R. Simplot Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was using two hoists to lift a 5-foot section of channel iron that was supporting a 200-pound motor. Hoist hooks supported the channel iron through eyelets. While positioning the hoist, the employee placed his finger through an eyelet. Weight shifted, creating a pinch point between the eyelet and the hoist hook that amputated his finger. | |||||
| 2017-08-26 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | J.R. Simplot Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a potato bagging machine when his finger was caught and amputated in the machine. | |||||
| 2017-08-26 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | Valley Markets, Inc. | Hand(s) and arm(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was frying donuts when she became lightheaded and fell into the fryer's hot oil, burning her right arm and hand. The fryer was uncovered at the time. | |||||
| 2017-07-24 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | Bergstrom Electric, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Fall through surface or existing opening |
| An employee was loading a spool of cable onto a trailer bed when he fell through the trailer decking, injuring his left leg and back. | |||||
| 2017-06-05 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | Big Jim's East-Side Tire, Inc. | Multiple trunk locations | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| An employee was jacking up a truck trailer while laying on the ground to replace a tire when the truck moved and pulled the trailer over the employee. The weight of the trailer crushed the employee's chest and abdomen. | |||||
| 2017-03-20 | Forks | Washington | JMG Constructors LLC | Head, neck, and trunk | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was operating a cutoff saw to cut pipe when it bound and kicked back, lacerating his chest, neck and cheek. | |||||
| 2017-02-02 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | Altru Health System | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was moving a work bench when the bench leg collapsed. The bench then amputated his left third finger. | |||||
| 2016-08-31 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | Altru Health System | Lumbar region | Standing, standing up-single episode |
| An employee was folding a wheelchair pedal upward and when the employee stood up the employee experienced acute pain in their lower back and down the right leg. | |||||
| 2016-06-01 | Grand Forks Afb | North Dakota | Fargo Glass and Paint Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was cutting metal with a miter saw when the saw jammed and shot the metal backwards into the employee's hand, cutting a right thumb tendon. | |||||
| 2016-04-30 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | Panera, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee sustained a thumb amputation while cleaning a bagel slicer. | |||||
| 2016-03-07 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | Associated Potato Growers, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| An employee was exposed to carbon monoxide from two forklifts while working at the grading table. | |||||
| 2016-02-12 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | US Foods, Inc. | Trunk | Transportation incident |
| While operating an electric powered pallet jack, an employee suffered crushing injuries when pinned between the handle of the pallet jack and a wall inside the building. | |||||
| 2016-01-29 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | Philadelphia Macaroni Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a pasta press and amputated three fingers. | |||||
| 2015-12-21 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | Custom Drywall | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall through surface or existing opening 26 to 30 feet |
| An employee fell approximately 30 feet through an elevator shaft after unhooking his self-retracting lifeline to readjust a laser resulting in fractured ribs, pelvis and a punctured lung. | |||||
| 2015-12-11 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | ICS | Lower extremities | Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet |
| An employee fell approximately 20 feet from a scaffold while climbing down resulting in a lower extremities fracture and hospitalization for medical treatment. | |||||
| 2015-10-20 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | Holweger Construction, LLC | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| An employee was struck in the face by a nail from a second employee's nail gun and admitted to the emergency room. The second employee shot himself in the stomach with the nail gun and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2015-09-30 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | Simplot Foods | Neck and back | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee of Simplot Foods was severely burned on his neck and back when an industrial fryer he was cleaning overflowed with boiling water. | |||||
| 2015-09-07 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. | Knee(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee injured his knee when he tripped on a rubber safety mat. | |||||
| 2015-08-03 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | Wood Products, Inc. | Hand(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| A Wood Products, Inc., employee was injured when his hand came into contact with a chop saw blade. The employee was hospitalized for nerve repair. | |||||
| 2015-05-26 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | Walmart | Nonclassifiable | Shooting by other person-intentional |
| An employee was shot by a customer while working. | |||||
| 2015-04-16 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | RRC Specialties, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level 26 to 30 feet |
| An employee fell three stories down an elevator shaft at a construction project. | |||||