| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-10-17 | Hill City | South Dakota | Rushmore Forest Products, Inc. | Nose, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was fixing a skewed board in the sorter machine, stubbed a toe and fell off the 42" sorter platform to a catwalk. The employee suffered a deviated nasal septum requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2017-09-13 | Hill City | South Dakota | Division 7 Sheet Metal, LLC | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Struck by powered vehicle tipping over-nontransport |
| The injured employee was operating a telehandler that had a man basket with two employees in it. He was backing it up and struck a large object. He stopped suddenly and began to lower the man basket. The telehandler tipped over. The injured employee had multiple broken toes on his left foot that required hospitalization and surgery. The employees in the man basket suffered cuts and bruises. | |||||
| 2016-02-11 | Hill City | South Dakota | Rushmore Forest Products, Inc. | Ankle(s) | Trip without fall, n.e.c. |
| An employee was walking from one deck to the deck feeder. As he crossed the gap between the two, his foot became caught in the chainway, breaking his right ankle. | |||||
| 2015-04-10 | Hill City | South Dakota | Rushmore Forest Products, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was operating a conveyor that moves wood products. The employee attempted to remove a board from the moving conveyor and struck his right fingers against the angle iron on the frame of the conveyor resulting in a fracture to the right index finger and an ablation to the right ring finger that required the tip to be medically amputated. | |||||