Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-08-25 | Gillespie | Il | Ameren Illinois Company | Heart | Exposure to environmental heat |
After finishing pole top rescue training in the heat, an employee became ill and was hospitalized, having suffered a myocardial infarction. | |||||
2021-05-28 | Gillett | Tx | Helmerich and Payne International Drilling Company | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was at an oil rig, cleaning a window while standing on the second rung of a ladder. The ladder shifted and he fell. He landed on the rig floor and suffered fractures to the left lower tibia and fibula. | |||||
2020-02-26 | Gillett | Wisconsin | Seneca Foods Corporation | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee was walking back to his work station from the tool room when he tripped on a stand that holds the fans for the harvesters and fell onto the concrete floor. He landed on and fractured his right hip. | |||||
2019-09-15 | Gillett | Wisconsin | Seneca Foods Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was using slip-joint pliers to clear a jam in a cutter machine's hoppers when the cutter partially amputated the employee's right middle fingertip. | |||||
2019-08-05 | Gillett | Wisconsin | Seneca Foods Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was driving a forklift with a dump bucket attachment full of dirt. The employee stopped the forklift and prepared to dump the bucket. When he pulled the manual latch of the dump bucket, the bucket slid backwards toward the lift. One of his fingers was caught and partially amputated between the forklift and the bucket. | |||||
2019-06-21 | Gillett | Wisconsin | Seneca Foods Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was sweeping around a cluster cutter. The machine was dropping some beans on the floor. The employee tried to attach a deflector to the running machine to keep the beans from falling onto the floor. His right middle finger contacted the sickle bar on the machine and a small piece of the side of his middle fingertip was amputated. | |||||
2019-01-02 | Gillsville | Georgia | COUNTRY CHARM EGGS, LLC | Leg(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was cleaning a machine area when the machine caught the employee's pant leg, causing a fracture that resulted in surgical amputation of the leg. | |||||
2018-08-13 | Gillett | Wisconsin | Seneca Foods Corporation | Knee(s) | Climbing or stepping up or down-single episode |
An employee injured his right knee while using a platform ladder, requiring surgery. | |||||
2018-07-13 | Gillett | Texas | Ensign Wells Servicing Northern Division | Lower leg(s) | Struck by object or equipment |
An employee was standing in the work area waiting for a pipe fitter to lower when the pipe fitter, which was hoisted on a chain, became dislodged and struck the employee's left leg. The employee sustained a fractured fibula and tibia, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2018-07-05 | Gillett | Texas | Rathole Drilling, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
An employee was lining up a rig auger and kelly when the equipment shifted and made contact with his right index finger, resulting in a partial amputation. | |||||
2018-07-01 | Gill | Colorado | Aurora Organic Farms | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by animal |
An employee was struck in the chest by a cow. | |||||
2018-05-31 | Gillett | Texas | Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Co. | Leg(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was attaching a tong to a pipe when his left leg was caught in the tong pull line and the drill string, resulting in a left leg amputation. | |||||
2017-09-06 | Gillett | Texas | PumpCo Energy Services, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was holding the wing side of a swivel connection in place to connect an iron riser to a wellhead when his right pinky finger was caught between the iron riser and the threaded part of the well, amputating it above the nail. | |||||
2017-04-26 | Gillett | Wisconsin | Seneca Foods Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was assembling a cooker valve when the employee's finger became caught between two valve parts, partially amputating the employee's right ring fingertip. | |||||
2016-10-05 | Gill | Colorado | Great White Pressure Control | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was helping to move a stick pipe. He was standing on the ground by the pipe wrangler and had his left hand on the pipe. The pipe skate was too close to the pipe so he motioned to the pipe wrangler operator to move the skate back. However, the skate moverd forward, pinching the employee's left index finger between the skate and the pipe. His left index finger was partially amputated. | |||||
2016-09-06 | Gillett | Wisconsin | Wells Fargo Bank NA | Leg(s) | Fall on same level |
On 09/06/2016, an employee fell in the lobby and then later fell again in the parking lot. Her left leg was injured and required hospitalization. | |||||
2016-08-20 | Gillett | Wisconsin | Seneca Foods Corporation | Lower leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
An employee was helping a forklift operator straighten the cardboard dust cover on a pallet. The top three pallets in the stack collapsed, causing several hundred cans of green beans to fall on the employee, breaking both of his lower legs. | |||||
2016-06-20 | Gillette | Wyoming | Bureau of Indian Affairs | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
While responding to a wild land fire, an employee experienced dehydration and/or heat exhaustion and was hospitalized. | |||||
2016-04-26 | Gillett | Texas | Hunter Industries, Ltd. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in work zone |
An employee was struck by a vehicle while setting up a work zone on a state highway. The employee suffered rib fractures and a punctured lung. | |||||
2016-02-29 | Gillsville | Georgia | AT&T Services, Inc. | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
An employee was working on a pole using climbers. After the employee completed his work on the pole, he began to descend the pole. As he was descending, he "cut out" and slid down three to four feet while hugging the pole. He then let go and fell approximately 12 feet causing injury to his back. | |||||
2015-01-02 | Gill | Colorado | Foster Trucking, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Nonclassifiable |
Employee sustained burns during line tie-in operations at an oil and gas site. |