Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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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. | |||||
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. | |||||
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. | |||||
2019-04-11 | 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. | |||||
2019-03-16 | 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. | |||||
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. | |||||
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. | |||||
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. | |||||
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. |