| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-06-02 | Heber Springs | Arkansas | Big John Manufacturing Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| Two employees were assembling part of a tree spade. A pin in the stabilizer leg was not aligning in its hole properly. One employee was trying to find the groove between two bushings in the pinhole when the pin was pulled out, amputating the employee's left middle finger. | |||||
| 2019-09-03 | Heber Springs | Arkansas | Tigg Holding, LLC | Leg(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was picking up a 10-inch, 230-pound piece of C-channel, using a 7.5-ton overhead bridge crane. The C-channel slipped off the clamping device and fell approximately 7 feet onto the employee's right leg. The employee was hospitalized with lacerations to the right leg. | |||||
| 2019-07-17 | Heber Springs | Arkansas | Saint Jean Industries | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was working inside a robotic cell, handling parts coming out of an X-ray machine. While waiting for the next tray of parts to come out of the X-ray, he rested his hand on the side edge of the roller system. The chain/sprocket teeth then caught his right glove, pulling his fingers into the sprocket. He pulled his right hand out of the sprocket gear and injured the tip of his right middle finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation. The chain and sprocket were unguarded at the time of | |||||
| 2019-02-19 | Heber Springs | Arkansas | Defiance Metal Products | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a brake press in safe mode while changing a die on the press. The press cycled, breaking the employee's left arm. | |||||
| 2018-09-14 | Heber Springs | Arkansas | Saint Jean Industries | Brain | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| After loading and unloading parts off an inspection conveyor system, an employee switched to inspecting parts in a black light room. He began to feel unwell and lost consciousness, falling backwards and striking his head on the concrete floor. He sustained severe head trauma and was hospitalized with a brain bleed. | |||||
| 2018-08-07 | Heber Springs | Arkansas | Defiance Metal Products | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was operating a handheld spot welder when he started to feel ill and experienced cramps and nausea. He was hospitalized for heat stress. | |||||
| 2018-07-10 | Heber Springs | Arkansas | Saint Jean Industries | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was handling parts coming from a cast machine when he began experiencing cramps. He was hospitalized with heat exhaustion and dehydration. | |||||
| 2018-05-11 | Heber Springs | Arkansas | ST. JEAN INDUSTRIES | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was performing maintenance on a machine when the machine cycled and amputated the left index fingertip. | |||||
| 2017-04-13 | Heber Springs | Arkansas | DEFIANCE METAL PRODUCTS | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a brake press to form small metal parts and pinched his left middle finger between the material and the front of the ram amputating the middle fingertip. | |||||
| 2016-06-30 | Heber Springs | Arkansas | Saint Jean Industries, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| A temporary employee was hospitalized for dehydration while he was working as a CNC machine operator. | |||||
| 2016-03-21 | Heber Springs | Arkansas | Saint Jean Industries, Inc. | Skull | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was using a crowbar to straighten a part when the crowbar slipped and the employee lost her balance. She fell backwards and hit her head on the base of a heat treat rack that was positioned behind her. The employee fractured her skull and injured her neck. | |||||
| 2016-03-03 | Heber Springs | Arkansas | Saint Jean Industries, Inc. | Leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee placed a 500-1,000 lb. mold onto the sandblasting sled table using a crane. The employee then began moving the table to the sandblast cabinet when the tabletop fell from the base and landed on employee's left leg causing severe damage to his leg. | |||||