| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-04-23 | Haleyville | Al | Industrial Services-Haleyville, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| An employee was removing a switchgear metal cover panel. A tool fell into the switchgear compartment and contacted a 480-volt bus, resulting in an arc flash that caused second degree burns to the employee's face and arms. | |||||
| 2020-04-16 | Haleyville | Alabama | Masonite International Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was organizing an area full of part buggies and pushing them to their proper locations. As the employee was pushing a cart, the front side struck another buggy. When this happened, it caused wood stiles inside the buggy to shift, crushing her right middle finger between the stiles and the handle of the buggy and resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2019-05-07 | Haleyville | Alabama | CenturyLink | Lumbar region | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee had been using a bucket truck to repair a telecommunications cable at a customer's residence. The employee completed the job and got down into the truck bed from the bucket itself, and was then stepping off the platform at the rear of the truck when he missed a step, lost balance and fell from the back of the truck to the ground approximately 4-5 ft below. The employee landed on his tool belt and the right side of his lower back. He was hospitalized with four fractured vertebrae in t | |||||
| 2019-03-26 | Haleyville | Alabama | Masonite Corporation | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was using a steel brush to clean glue from the lay-up machine when the steel brush was caught in the rollers. The employee's right hand was then lacerated by the steel brush and rollers, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2018-06-04 | Haleyville | Alabama | Fontaine Commercial Trailer | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was installing a safety pin into the locking device on a trailer that was being positioned into a jig. The employee was sliding the safety pin into place while adjustments were being made to place the trailer in the correct position and her left ring finger was pinched between the trailer and the locking device resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2017-07-19 | Haleyville | Alabama | KITH Kitchens, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was assembling wooden cabinets and experienced dehydration related to heat exhaustion. | |||||
| 2017-01-26 | Haleyville | Alabama | UFP Haleyville, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating the pop up saw and amputated the right middle fingertip. | |||||
| 2016-06-14 | Haleyville | Alabama | KITH Kitchens, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating an automatic panel saw when his right thumb pad was avulsed between the gate/guard and the equipment. He required surgery and hospitalization. | |||||
| 2016-05-27 | Haleyville | Alabama | WM BurnettTruck Line, Inc. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was pinned under the bumper of an 18-wheeler when the truck came off the jack while the employee was changing the front tire. The employee suffered broken ribs and internal injuries. | |||||
| 2016-05-03 | Haleyville | Alabama | Free State Lumber Company, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was using a radial arm saw to cut a piece of wood. The saw cut the employee's left hand at an angle amputating his thumb and his first three fingers along with the end of his pinky finger. | |||||
| 2015-11-18 | Haleyville | Alabama | UFP Haleyville, LLC | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| A piece of wood got stuck in the feed conveyor. The employee tried to free the board and when he did it went into the rip saw and a piece was ejected striking the employee and rupturing the intestine. | |||||
| 2015-01-26 | Haleyville | Alabama | Kith Furniture LLC | Foot (feet) | Stepped on object |
| Employee sustained a foot injury on 1/14/15 when he stepped on a staple. Employee continued to report pain in the foot. Employee visited the emergency room on 1/24/15. Employee reported to work on 1/26/15 with continued pain in the foot and was sent to the doctor. The employee was subsequently hospitalized for treatment of cellulitis. | |||||