| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-12 | Great Bend | Ks | VENTURE CORPORATION | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| An employee was inspecting a hopper bin when their loose clothing was caught in a tail pulley. The employee suffered a broken arm. | |||||
| 2020-05-14 | Great Bend | Kansas | Western Ag Enterprises, Inc | Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by object or equipment rolling freely |
| An employee was on a silage pile to roll down side walls and weigh them down with tires. A tire rolled downward, striking him in the face. He suffered a damaged ligament in the neck. | |||||
| 2019-02-01 | Great Bend | Kansas | The Great Bend Cooperative Inc. | Cheek(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee fell off an application spreader rig while washing a window and struck the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured cheek bone. | |||||
| 2018-09-25 | Great Bend | Kansas | JACAM Chemicals 2013, LLC | Ankle(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| Employees were trying to connect a wellhead with a two-to-one swedge and a quick coupler. A valve was opened to route pressure through the swedge. The swedge's threads stripped and it struck an employee in the ankle, fracturing it. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-04-07 | Great Bend | Kansas | Fuller Industries LLC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a machine that clamps onto a metal-framed brush and drills holes in it when her fingertip was caught in the clamp. She suffered a partial amputation of the left ring finger. | |||||
| 2016-07-14 | Great Bend | Kansas | Walmart Store #770 | Hand(s) | Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire |
| An employee was filling a lawn mower tire with air when the tire popped and struck the employee's hand, fracturing it. | |||||
| 2015-06-23 | Great Bend | Kansas | Nabholz Construction Corporation | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| While reaching through a hole in a wall an employee stepped on a ladder that was leaning against the lower part of this opening. He stepped above the fulcrum of the ladder. Therefore, the ladder acted like a teeter-totter and the employee fell about two feet and broke his left ankle. | |||||