| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-17 | Hazelwood | Mo | GKN Aerospace | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to other harmful substance-multiple routes of exposure |
| After a chemical leak at the plant, an employee reported heavy breathing and eye pain. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-08-20 | Hazelwood | Mo | J F AHERN CO | Pelvis | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was installing a sprinkler system mainline when they fell from a ladder to the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fracture to the right side of the pelvis. | |||||
| 2021-08-13 | Hazelwood | Mo | NATURE'S BAKERY | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was pushing equipment into place when a drawer on a machine closed and amputated 8mm of their little finger. | |||||
| 2021-05-06 | Hazelwood | Mo | Woods Basement Systems, Inc. | Eye(s) | Struck by object or equipment |
| An employee was trying to free a stuck anchor bit and his head was hit above his left eye resulting in a fractured orbital socket. | |||||
| 2021-03-21 | Hazelwood | Mo | CABKA NORTH AMERICA INC. | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was on an auger when it was turned on. The employee suffered a toe amputation. | |||||
| 2020-08-21 | Hazelwood | Mo | SOUTHWESTERN WIRE, INC. | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee fell from a ladder to the ground and sustained a laceration and possible concussion. | |||||
| 2020-06-12 | Hazelwood | Missouri | Swift Transportation | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| While exiting from a truck, an employee stepped into a pot hole and fell, fracturing her right hip. | |||||
| 2020-06-02 | Hazelwood | Missouri | GKN AEROSPACE | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee sustained an amputation to the right index finger while changing a bit on a router machine. | |||||
| 2020-01-30 | Hazelwood | Missouri | U.S. Postal Service | Foot (feet) | Struck by rolling object or equipment being pushed by injured worker |
| A USPS employee was pulling a pallet jack when the pallet jack ran over the employee's foot, resulting in multiple broken foot bones and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2020-01-13 | Hazelwood | Missouri | USA Recycling DBA Pallet Logistics Management | Upper and lower limb(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| A maintenance employee climbed a ladder to access an intake on top of a grinder machine and install new equipment. He was attempting to remove a bolt with a wrench when the wrench slipped off the bolt. The momentum of his body caused him to lose his balance and fall 6 feet to the concrete surface below, fracturing his left wrist and left leg. | |||||
| 2019-02-06 | Hazelwood | Missouri | NATURE'S BAKERY, LLC | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was feeding fig bars onto a line/conveyor belt. The employee was walking along the conveyor belt line to address a jam when the employee tripped on the leg of a chair and fell to the ground, fracturing an ankle. | |||||
| 2019-01-11 | Hazelwood | Missouri | Boeing | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was cutting a 4-inch piece of foam in half using a band saw when his left thumb contacted the blade and was partially amputated. | |||||
| 2018-08-14 | Hazelwood | Missouri | FISERV | Leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was attempting to unload paper from a wooden pallet when the pallet broke. She tried to stabilize the paper, but it fell on her, causing her to fall backwards/sideways and hit her had on the floor. She suffered bruising on her legs and a possible concussion. | |||||
| 2018-06-11 | Hazelwood | Missouri | THE BOEING COMPANY | Ankle(s) | Trip over self without fall |
| An employee was walking through the grass from her car to her office and rolled her ankle. Her right ankle was fractured. | |||||
| 2018-04-06 | Hazelwood | Missouri | Amazon Sort Center | Ankle(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was operating a forklift when his left leg went outside of the forklift and was pinned against a guardrail, fracturing his left ankle. | |||||
| 2018-03-18 | Hazelwood | Missouri | CABKA NORTH AMERICA INC. | Thigh(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| While trimming flash from a plastic pallet, the knife slipped and stabbed the employee's thigh. | |||||
| 2018-03-08 | Hazelwood | Missouri | CABKA NORTH AMERICA INC. | Multiple body parts | Direct exposure to electricity, 220 volts or less |
| An employee was working on a 220-volt breaker when an arc flash occurred, resulting in third degree burns over much of his body. | |||||
| 2017-03-21 | Hazelwood | Missouri | U.S. Postal Service | Head | Struck against stationary object or equipment |
| An employee was unloading a trailer when his head hit a piece of metal on the trailer. He suffered a head laceration and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2016-09-03 | Hazelwood | Missouri | US Tool | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee climbed through a window to access a locked room. He fell onto a wire cart, fracturing two right-side ribs and suffering internal bleeding. | |||||
| 2016-05-17 | Hazelwood | Missouri | CABKA NORTH AMERICA | Arm(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was cutting flash off of one of the pallets with a knife when he missed the pallet and cut his left arm, damaging his arteries. | |||||
| 2016-02-22 | Hazelwood | Missouri | GKN Aerospace | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was blowing chips off parts and fixtures with compressed air in preparation for the next machine set up when he tripped and fell over a tooling post, injuring his hip and requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2016-02-08 | Hazelwood | Missouri | XPO Logistics - Supply Chain | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle |
| An employee was operating a stand-up forklift when the forklift struck a shelf support, chipping the employee's vertebrae and other bones. | |||||
| 2015-09-26 | Hazelwood | Missouri | Cabka North America | Hand(s) and wrist(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee in the molding department was attempting to remove material that clogged the auger of an injection molding machine. His hand got caught in the auger, which was not shut down at the time of the incident. He sustained left-hand and wrist lacerations, as well as torn tendons, requiring hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
| 2015-04-29 | Hazelwood | Missouri | Printpack, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Exposure to harmful substances or environments |
| An employee was hospitalized for burns. | |||||
| 2015-04-09 | Hazelwood | Missouri | GKN AEROSPACE | Lumbar region | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| On or about 11am, on 4/9/2015, a pipe fitter was working off an 8 ft. A-frame ladder about 5 feet off the ground, trying to loosen a valve on the nitric acid line. The valve broke loose spraying liquid onto the employee. As the employee attempted to block the spray, he lost his balance and fell off the ladder, cracking an L3 vertebrae. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2015-02-11 | Hazelwood | Missouri | TRUEBLUE COMPANY | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
| Employee cleaning rail cars attempted to close the rail car door. He amputated right-hand digits (ring and pinky fingers) in the process. | |||||