Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-04-17 | Gridley | Illinois | WATERSHED FOODS, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee had removed the conveyor on the backside of a machine to clean. When the employee went to put the machine back in place, the employee's left ring finger was caught in a pinch point created by the lug conveyor chain and the traying machine. As a result, the employee's left ring fingertip was amputated. | |||||
2016-09-15 | Gridley | Illinois | Watershed Foods, LLC | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Moving in opposite directions, oncoming, nonroadway |
On or about September 15, 2016, an employee was driving a stand-up forklift in reverse from the back of a semi-trailer after setting down a load. A second stand-up forklift was also backing up and the two forklifts collided. The elevated forks of the second forklift struck the left foot of the employee controlling the first forklift. The employee suffered three broken toes, requiring surgical removal of the fourth toe, as well as a cut (left foot). | |||||
2016-07-06 | Gridley | Illinois | McCoy Construction Co. | Lumbar region | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was walking on the cord of the roof trusses taking measurements inside the roof trusses when he stepped on a weakened area and fell approximately 10 feet to the concrete floor below breaking the L1 vertebrae and other bones. |