Machine Injury & Accidents

Date	City	State	Employer	Body Part	Event
2021-02-23	Harrisonville	Mo	WALMART LOGISTICS	Upper and lower limb(s)	Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle
An employee was hauling air bags with a forklift when the forklift collided with a support column, resulting in injuries to the employee's hands and feet.
2021-02-20	Harrisonville	Mo	Church and Dwight	Lumbar region	Fall on same level due to slipping
An employee was exiting their vehicle when they slipped and fell on ice, resulting in a lower back injury.
2021-01-27	Harrison	Oh	Stop Stick, LTD	Fingertip(s)	Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects
An employee was rolling up cord reels. One of the reels got tangled and amputated the tip of the employee's left index finger.
2021-01-12	Harrison	Ny	PINNACLE INDUSTRIES II LLC	Head	Other fall to lower level
An employee was standing on the side of a truck, preparing to unload rebar. The employee slipped, fell to the ground, and suffered head lacerations.
2020-10-01	Harrison	Oh	Whitewater Processing Co.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee amputated their right ring finger at the first digit while processing turkey hocks on a machine.
2020-09-25	Harrison	Oh	Cincinnati Incorporated	Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
An employee was collapsing a portable paint booth when the booth tipped forward and landed on them. The employee sustained fractured ribs.
2020-07-16	Harrisonburg	Louisiana	D&J Construction	Brain	Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
An employee was preforming daily maintenance on an asphalt crusher when he lost his balance and fell approximately 8 feet to the ground, hitting his head. He was hospitalized.
2020-07-13	Harrisonville	Missouri	Waste Corporation of Missouri	Hip(s)	Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
An employee was loading a trash cart onto a trailer. He lost his footing and fell approximately 15 feet, sustaining a fractured right hip.
2020-04-30	Harrison	Ohio	Glenmoor Co.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was operating an oil pump machine when his right index finger was caught between the machine's chain drive and gear, resulting in amputation.
2019-09-24	Harrisonville	Missouri	ABC Healthcare	Fingertip(s)	Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate
A door closed on an employee's left middle finger, resulting in an amputation to the fingertip.
2019-09-12	Harrison	Ohio	Heartland Engineered Products, LLC	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Struck by rolling object or equipment being pushed by injured worker
An employee was removing a beam from a blaster and manually turning it to remove a steel shot when the beam rolled onto his hand, resulting in a left ring finger amputation.
2019-05-02	Harrison	Idaho	Granite Enterprises, Inc.	Multiple pelvic region locations	Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
An employee was installing metal edging on roof fascia while working from an extension ladder when he lost balance and fell approximately 18 feet onto a pile of rocks. The employee was hospitalized with a broken pelvis and hip, and also sustained injuries to his knee, elbow, and heel.
2019-04-11	Harrisonville	Missouri	Waste Corporation of Missouri	Eye(s)	Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
An employee was unbundling bales of recyclable material. When he cut the wire with his wire cutters, it snapped back and poked his left eye. He underwent surgery to relieve pressure behind his eye.
2019-03-31	Harrison	Ohio	Kmart Corporation	Elbow(s)	Other fall to lower level
An employee was working from a ladder, removing a tile from a ceiling. The employee fell from the ladder to the floor, suffering a broken left elbow.
2019-03-16	Harrisonville	Missouri	Church and Dwight	Hand(s)	Contact with hot objects or substances
An employee was filling a pot that dispenses hot glue when his right hand contacted the glue and was burned.
2019-01-14	Harrison	Ohio	OK Interiors Corporation	Hip(s)	Fall on same level due to slipping
An employee slipped on ice and fell resulting in a hip fracture.
2018-09-25	Harrisonville	Missouri	CHURCH & DWIGHT CO., INC.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery
An employee was attempting to clear salt from an inductor. The system energized, causing a gate to close on the employee's hand. This resulted in an amputation of the right ring finger to the nail.
2018-09-13	West Harrison	New York	Sharp Details, LLC	Back, including spine, spinal cord	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
An employee was descending aircraft stairs, tripped on the second to last stair and fell striking their back on the last stair near the ground. The employee sustained three inflamed discs.
2018-08-17	Harrison	Arkansas	Claridge Products and Equipment, Inc.	Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
After loading metals onto racks to be picked up by a crane for the anodizing process, an employee was standing idle when he was stuck by the control cab of the crane, which was about 4 feet above the ground. The cab of the crane pushed the employee into one of the support steel columns of the building, where he suffered a collapsed right lung and one broken rib. He was hospitalized.
2018-05-07	Harrison	Arkansas	Innovative Formulations	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
An employee was dumping powdered sugar into a portable oscillating blender. A tag was dropped into the machine. The employee attempted to remove the tag and the blender pulled the employee's left hand between the metal bars and a screen, resulting in two broken fingers. The machine was running at the time.
2018-04-30	Harrison	Ohio	Ernst Concrete, Inc.	Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
An employee was climbing down the ladder from the catwalk area on the front of a discharge ready mix cement truck that was wet from being washed. While standing on the finder, the employee turned right toward the grab rail. As the employee stepped down to the next step, the employee lost balance and fell approximately 51 inches to the ground. The employee suffered nine broken ribs and was hospitalized.
2018-04-01	Harrison	Arkansas	Pace Industries Inc	Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Struck by object or equipment
A pallet in the vicinity broke, causing a 12-foot high stack of pallets containing gas meters to fall and strike the injured employee's work station. The injured, temporary employee was struck in the chest resulting in hospitalization of a partially collapsed lung.
2018-02-08	Harrison	Ohio	Innovative Business Group, Inc.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery
An employee was blowing something out of an edge bander when the employee's left hand contacted the saw blade, amputating the middle and index fingers.
2017-09-30	Harrison	New Jersey	Tri-State Buns, LLC	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee went to clean a de-panner chain with a rag when the chain caught the rag. His right middle finger was then pulled into the chain, amputating a finger.
2017-09-24	Harrison	Arkansas	WABASH WOOD PRODUCTS	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was cleaning two application rollers and caught his left index finger between the rollers resulting in a partial amputation. The equipment was not guarded or locked out at the time.
2017-07-13	Harrisonville	Missouri	UNIVERSAL FOREST PRODUCTS	Fingertip(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
An employee was operating a saw as a forklift driver set lumber on it. The employee's left middle fingertip was crushed between the lumber and the saw's backrest. When he pulled his hand out, his fingertip was amputated.
2017-04-10	Harrison	New Jersey	RP Baking, LLC	Hand(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was cleaning a machine when his left hand was caught in the machine's rollers resulting in a skin avulsion and hospitalization.
2017-01-06	Harrison	Arkansas	WABASH WOOD PRODUCTS	Knee(s)	Fall on same level
While approaching a set of stairs, an employee fell and struck the leading edge of the second step injuring his left knee.
2016-09-06	Harrison	Arkansas	Flexsteel Industries Inc.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
An employee turned off a circular saw to remove cotton batting from the blade. Their finger contacted the moving saw blade and the finger was amputated above the nailbed.
2016-06-23	Harrison	Ohio	The Adelman Provision Company	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee got his hand caught in the rotating drum of the sausage reworker machine resulting in the amputation of three fingers.
2016-06-09	Harrison	Arkansas	GOLD MECHANICAL	Hip(s)	Struck, caught, or crushed in other collapsing structure or equipment
An employee was shoveling gravel into a 1-foot trench by a partition wall. The site supervisor was operating a mini excavator near the partition wall while the employee was working on the opposite side. The mini excavator bumped into the wall, causing it to fall to pieces. Some of the pieces fell on and broke the employee's hip.
2016-06-09	Harrisonville	Missouri	WALMART LOGISTICS	Leg(s)	Fall on same level due to tripping
An employee was operating a powered pallet jack when he tripped over a pallet and fell. The pallet jack traveled up his left leg, lacerating and possibly fracturing it near the ankle.
2016-06-02	Harrisonville	Missouri	GOLDEN YEARS HEALTH CENTER NURSING HOME	Multiple trunk locations	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
On June 2, 2016, at 1:45 p.m., an employee fell 4.7 feet from an outside stairway while attempting to remove a black snake from the outside lip/ledge of the stairway. He broke five ribs and injured his spleen, requiring hospitalization.
2016-02-17	Harrison	Arkansas	Pace Industries Inc	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
An employee's middle finger was caught in-between the hydraulic cylinder and the platen while trying to move the die that was hooked up to the overhead gantry crane hoist. The employee's middle left finger was partially amputated.
2015-09-03	Harrison Township	Michigan	Beacon Cove Marina Inc.	Toes(s), toenail(s)	Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
An employee was loading bags of cement/asphalt onto a cart at Lowe's when a wheel on the cart broke. The cart collapsed onto the employee's foot, amputating a toe.
2015-07-16	Harrisonville	Missouri	WALMART LOGISTICS	Toes(s), toenail(s)	Nonroadway collision with other vehicle, n.e.c.
An employee was driving a powered pallet jack out of the cold storage room. As he was pulling out, a second motorized pallet jack approached from his left and struck his equipment. He attempted to stop the other equipment using his foot. His left big toe was pinched between the mast areas of the two pallet jacks and had to be amputated at the hospital.
2015-07-09	Harrison	Ohio	Stock Manufacturing & Design Company, Inc	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was drilling holes with a drill press when his glove got caught in a drill bit, amputating two fingers.
2015-02-15	Harrison	Ohio	Nease Co. LLC	Ankle(s)	Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
On or about February 15, 2015, an employee's leg was pinned between a sit-down forklift and a guardrail. Employee sustained broken bones to the left ankle.