| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-12 | Fort Morgan | Co | Cargill Meat Solutions | Jaw, chin | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was attempting to pick up a hide from the ground while holding a skinning knife in one hand and lacerated his chin. | |||||
| 2021-11-11 | Fort Morgan | Co | Dinklage Feed Yard Inc. | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was stepping off a front-end loader when he slipped and hit his head on concrete. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-04-13 | Fort Morgan | Co | Western Sugar Cooperative | Neck and back | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was changing safety filters when a filter that was under pressure sprayed hot juice onto the employee, resulting in burns to the neck and back. | |||||
| 2021-02-05 | Fort Morgan | Co | Cargill | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee was climbing a fixed ladder in a cooler and fell approximately 15' to the floor, sustaining fractures to the left arm and left hip. | |||||
| 2020-09-07 | Fort Morgan | Co | Western Sugar Cooperative | Shoulder(s) and arm(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| Two maintenance employees were inspecting the Omega coupling on the high melter pump. During inspection, the employees realized the shaft on the pump was broken rather than the coupling. The maintenance supervisor was going to locate a rebuilt seal assembly for the pump. The employees started removing the seal assembly from the pump. As one of the employees removed the base plate bolts from the pump, the head pressure from the high melter tank pushed the seal assembly out of the pump casing and | |||||
| 2020-01-20 | Fort Morgan | Colorado | Morgan County Rural Electric Association | Hand(s) | Direct exposure to electricity |
| An employee suffered burns and lacerations to both hands while cutting a ground wire. | |||||
| 2019-07-24 | Fort Morgan | Colorado | CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION | Elbow(s) | Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle |
| An employee was operating a forklift when the side of the forklift came in contact with a guard that was protecting a piece of equipment. The guard snapped and hit the employee in the elbow resulting in a laceration. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-03-15 | Fort Morgan | Colorado | THE WESTERN SUGAR COOPERATIVE | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee slipped and fell down stairs, breaking the right ankle. | |||||
| 2019-02-23 | Fort Morgan | Colorado | The Western Sugar Cooperative | Hand(s) and wrist(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was changing filter bags on a pan water filter. As the employee was form-fitting the filter to the basket, 200-degree water flowed into the employee's glove, causing second degree burns (and a subsequent infection) to the employee's left wrist/hand. | |||||
| 2019-01-16 | Fort Morgan | Colorado | LEPRINO FOODS COMPANY | Forearm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was rinsing cheese conveyor belts when he saw a piece of cheese on a weigh belt and attempted to remove it. His arm was then caught in the weigh belt, resulting in a broken forearm. The weigh belt was guarded at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2018-07-13 | Fort Morgan | Colorado | Basic Energy Services | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| On 7/13/2018, an employee climbed an 8-foot A-frame ladder to tape an area for painting. The employee finished and was starting to descend when the employee missed one of the ladder rungs and fell to the ground. The employee suffered a head cut and broken right ankle, requiring hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
| 2018-05-21 | Fort Morgan | Colorado | CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS | Hand(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| An employee was inspecting a hydraulic hose for leaks when another employee activated the hock cutter that was powered by the hose, releasing a high-pressure stream of hydraulic fluid into the employee's right hand. The fluid cut his hand and was injected under his skin. | |||||
| 2018-02-02 | Fort Morgan | Colorado | Ensign United States Drilling, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was moving a large job site tool. The tool fell and caught his right hand resulting in amputation of the pinky fingertip. | |||||
| 2017-09-04 | Fort Morgan | Colorado | Western Sugar Cooperative | Multiple trunk locations | Jack-knifed or overturned, roadway |
| An employee was driving an excavator when the vehicle rolled off the road. The employee suffered fractured vertebrae and ribs, as well as an arm injury. | |||||
| 2017-08-01 | Fort Morgan | Colorado | Western Sugar Cooperative | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker |
| An employee was cleaning a 16-inch butterfly valve weighing approximately 240 pounds. The employee lifted the valve from the saw horses and went to set it on the ground. A finger on his right hand was pinched between the valve and the floor, and was partially amputated. | |||||
| 2017-06-29 | Fort Morgan | Colorado | Cargill, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| On June 29, 2017, an employee was pulling product off a conveyor belt to assist a coworker who was cutting the meat product with the bandsaw. He was trying to move some meat product when his left ring fingertip was partially amputated by the bandsaw. | |||||
| 2016-10-20 | Fort Morgan | Colorado | CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| A serpentine gate was closed. The employee pulled the pin in order to open the gate when a cow rammed the gate and his left ring finger was pinched between the gate and the cement wall. The employee's left ring fingertip was amputated and the middle finger was fractured. | |||||
| 2016-09-20 | Fort Morgan | Colorado | Western Sugar Cooperative | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| Two employees installed a new mud press belt. The employees were in the process of installing the mud wash box. In the process of removing the bolts from the bearing pillow block on the redirect roller, the remaining tension on the new belt and residual in air bag belt tensioning system pulled and twisted the redirect roller forward into the water flush line union. The force and motion of the redirect roller bearing pillow block pushed the employee's hand between the adjustable wrench (crescent | |||||
| 2016-07-12 | Fort Morgan | Colorado | Leprino Foods | Hand(s) and arm(s) | Contact with cold objects or substances |
| An employee removed a tap from a brine tank containing cold water (8-10 degrees). The brine liquid burned the employee's right hand, palm, and forearm. The employee was admitted to the hospital burn unit. | |||||
| 2016-05-14 | Fort Morgan | Colorado | LEPRINO FOODS COMPANY | Wrist(s) and arm(s) | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee was using a diluted corrosive chemical solution with a 24" long brush to clean drains. The employee sustained a second degree chemical burn to the forearm and wrist when the chemical solution splashed under the employee's protective gloves and sleeves. | |||||
| 2016-02-09 | Fort Morgan | Colorado | LEPRINO FOODS COMPANY | Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving |
| An employee was preparing to clean a machine and asked a coworker for assistance. The two were then involved in a physical altercation, and the employee sustained neck and throat injuries. | |||||
| 2015-12-17 | Fort Morgan | Colorado | CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating the bone cannon machine and amputated part of the right index finger. | |||||
| 2015-12-01 | Fort Morgan | Colorado | Western Sugar Cooperative | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was cleaning a wheel feed guide. As he exited the area, his hand got caught in the feed channel wheels, crushing and amputating his left thumb. | |||||
| 2015-08-24 | Fort Morgan | Colorado | CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was injured when his arm was caught in a smooth idler pulley on the stuffer output belt conveyor resulting in multiple fractures. | |||||
| 2015-08-06 | Fort Morgan | Colorado | LePrino Foods | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| An employee was trying to combine a low/empty jug of chemicals into a fuller jug of Sani King chemicals, unaware that he was mixing acid and chlorine. The resulting odor caused him to suffer respiratory issues and he was admitted to a hospital. | |||||
| 2015-05-16 | Fort Morgan | Colorado | Cargill | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was working in inedible rendering when she went to open a valve for production flow to the birds. The steam ball valve was either in the open position or steam pressure was still in the line which caused the product flow line to be under pressure. The pressure caused the back feed which overflowed the tallow tank and hot tallow sprayed onto the employees upper left back and right arm and hand resulting in second degree burns. | |||||
| 2015-03-03 | Fort Morgan | Colorado | CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS | Forearm(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
| An employee was injured on the harvest floor while opening shanks. The employee suffered a laceration to the right forearm and was hospitalized. | |||||