Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-09-25 | Hastings | Ne | Aurora Cooperative Elevator Co | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
An employee climbed the back of a grain trailer to help direct loading. Upon reaching the top, he fell off the back of the trailer. He suffered fractures to the left and right wrists, a head laceration that required staples, a lower back injury, and a brain bleed. | |||||
2021-09-14 | Hastings | Ne | Cooperative Producers, Inc. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Sudden start or stop, nonroadway |
An employee was riding in a telehandler's basket, preparing to clean a duct. The forks of the telehandler caught on a beam. The telehandler then backed up. This caused the force on the forks to be released, which jostled the employee. The side of his body bumped into the basket railing and he suffered three broken ribs and a punctured lung. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2021-08-27 | Hastings | Ne | Hastings Equity Manufacturing Co | Nonclassifiable | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee was removing a part from under a rotational mold cover, held by a chain hoist about 6-7 feet above the working surface. The chain slipped about 1 foot, after which the load brake activated; this caused the cover to bounce off of the chain hook, strike the employee, and then come to rest on top of him. He suffered multiple fractures. | |||||
2021-04-16 | Hastings | Ne | GIBRALTAR PACKAGING INC. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was trying to unjam waste paper in a paper slitter. The slicer blade amputated the employee's right index fingertip. | |||||
2021-04-07 | Hastings | Ne | HTH Companies, Inc. | Leg(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
An employee was operating a pressure washer. A fitting failed and high-pressure water was injected into the employee's leg. | |||||
2021-02-02 | Hastings | Ne | A-1 FIBERGLASS INC. | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Sudden start or stop, nonroadway |
An employee was clearing snow using a skid loader. The loader's bucket hit something solid, causing the skid loader to stop abruptly. The employee's chest collided with the safety bar inside the loader, causing the employee to lose consciousness. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2020-04-27 | Hastings | Nebraska | Noah's Ark Processors, LLC | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was oiling a product chain during routine preventive maintenance when his hand was caught between the chain and sprocket, resulting in ligament and nerve damage. | |||||
2020-02-27 | Hastings | Nebraska | SGP Services, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Direct exposure to electricity |
An employee was shocked while moving components in an electrical outlet box. | |||||
2019-09-10 | Hastings | Nebraska | A-1 FIBERGLASS INC. | Leg(s) | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
An employee was driving a forklift on an unpaved road. The forklift left the road and tipped over in a ditch. The employee's legs were pinned under the forklift and sustained bruising. | |||||
2019-07-22 | Hastings | Nebraska | Noah's Ark Processors, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was loading cattle onto a shackling chain when he stumbled and a finger got caught in the shackling chain resulting in amputation to a fingertip. | |||||
2019-06-02 | Hastings | Nebraska | Noah's Ark Processors, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Struck against object or equipment |
An employee was cleaning off a saw table at the end of the day and amputated the right pinky fingertip. | |||||
2019-02-22 | Hastings | Nebraska | Allens of Hastings, Inc. | Wrist(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was gathering shopping carts from a parking lot. She slipped and fell to the icy concrete pavement, breaking her right wrist and suffering contusions to the tailbone area and right knee. | |||||
2019-02-05 | Hastings | Florida | Barnes Farms, LLLP. | BODY SYSTEMS | Stings and venomous bites |
An employee was hooking up a trailer onto a pickup truck when he stepped on a pygmy rattlesnake, which bit him on his right shin. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2018-08-29 | Hastings On Hudson | New York | Ardsley Travel Plaza | Hand(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was burned on the hand with hot water while cleaning her work area. | |||||
2018-07-27 | Hastings | Nebraska | Chief Ethanol Fuels, Inc. | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee was pulling a 2-inch hose on a concrete walkway when he tripped on a parked forklift fork. He fractured his right hip and was hospitalized. | |||||
2018-07-19 | Hastings | Nebraska | Hastings HVAC, Inc | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was assembling a sheave and amputated the left pinky fingertip when it was caught between the belt and the metal edge of the sheave groove. | |||||
2018-06-15 | Hastings | Nebraska | Knife River Midwest | Leg(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
An employee was operating a string line reel to roll up the string line used in concrete paving operations when the reel stopped working. As he then walked towards the string line reel, it activated, causing the string line to wrap around his legs. He suffered a compound fracture to the right leg. | |||||
2018-01-26 | Hastings | Nebraska | A1 Fiberglass | Head | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was pushing a cart that had fiberglass rolls on it when she slipped and hit her head on the cart. She required stitches and was hospitalized. | |||||
2018-01-11 | Hastings | Nebraska | Van Kirk Bros | Arm(s) | Struck by powered vehicle-nontransport |
An employee was guiding a section of pipe that was being lifted with an excavator so that a connection could be made. The excavator bucket slid down and struck the employee's arm and leg resulting in a left arm fracture. | |||||
2017-05-23 | Hastings | Nebraska | Mid Continental Restoration Co., Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was working from a swing stage scaffold when the scaffold's up switch was activated, raising the scaffold and pinning him between it and the stone ledge above. He bruised his chest and lost consciousness. | |||||
2017-05-16 | Hastings | Nebraska | Walmart Stores #1460 | Knee(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
As an employee was leaving a bathroom stall to wash her hands, her knee gave out and she fell forward. She suffered a broken bone spur in her kneecap and was hospitalized. | |||||
2017-04-19 | Hastings | New York | Michels Power Corporation | Leg(s) | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
An employee was using a gasoline-powered demolition saw to cut a metal tower when a fire occurred, causing second degree burns to the employee's leg. | |||||
2017-03-22 | Hastings | Pennsylvania | Haida Health Care & Rehab Center | Brain | Fall on same level |
An employee fell on the sidewalk and hit her head. | |||||
2017-02-14 | Hastings | Nebraska | Cooperative Producers Inc. | Forehead | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee was setting a trailer onto a hitch when he climbed underneath the tongue to try and position it. The tongue slipped off the ball and struck him in the head. He was hospitalized with forehead lacerations. | |||||
2016-05-12 | Hastings | Nebraska | A-Lert Construction Services | Pelvis | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
On 5/12/2016, at 0930, an employee was rigging up the top section of a bucket elevator that he was installing. The load shifted and rolled onto him, fracturing his pelvis and possibly some ribs. | |||||
2016-04-25 | Hastings | Nebraska | Hydro-Klean, LLC | Forearm(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
While an employee was cleaning a facility, a high-pressure water lance was accidentally activated. The lance shot forward and pierced through the flesh of his right forearm. | |||||
2016-04-10 | Hastings | Nebraska | Noah's Ark Processors, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was attaching hydraulic clamps to cattle hide when the employee's left hand was caught in the clamps, fracturing all of the fingers. | |||||
2016-03-10 | Hastings | Nebraska | Noah's Ark Processors, LLC | Head and trunk | Trampled by or stepped on by animal |
An employee was herding cattle from the pens to the kill floor. On the way to the kill floor, the employee tripped and struck his head on the concrete of the pens. As the cattle passed him, one of their hoofs struck him in the ribs. He was hospitalized with broken ribs, a concussion, a broken nose, and a head laceration. | |||||
2015-12-15 | Hastings | Nebraska | Consolidated Concrete | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was climbing the fixed ladder on the back of a ready mix truck when they slipped and fell off, landing on their chest. | |||||
2015-12-01 | Hastings | Nebraska | Builders Warehouse, Inc. | Brain | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
An employee was moving building material on a construction site using a "piggy-back" type forklift. The load shifted and tipped the forklift. The employee hit his head and was hospitalized with a concussion. | |||||
2015-11-05 | Hastings | Nebraska | THERMO KING CORPORATION DIVISION OF INGERSOL RAND | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee amputated the tip of the right index finger while cleaning a pump and the pump activated. | |||||
2015-04-07 | Hastings | Nebraska | Drake Tool & Design Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee was moving a large metal plate with a forklift. The metal plate was slung under the forks of the lift. As the employee guided it, the load fell and amputated the tip of the employee's left index finger. | |||||
2015-02-04 | Hastings | Nebraska | MARY LANNING MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | Lower leg(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee working off site at a health fair slipped and fell on the ice in the parking lot. The employee broke the right fibula, leading to an in-patient hospitalization and surgical treatment. |