Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2021-11-10 | Holland | Oh | Stericycle, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
On November 10, 2021, an employee was loading a box truck. As they used their right hand to raise the lift gate, their left index finger was pinched between the liftgate and the truck. The employee sustained an amputation to the end of the finger. | |||||
2021-08-20 | South Holland | Il | Ed Miniat LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was scaling meat prior to filling in pouches on a bag former machine when their right-hand fingers were pinched in the machine, resulting in a laceration and partial amputation of the middle fingertip and a laceration of the ring finger. | |||||
2021-08-09 | New Holland | Pa | Keystone Hemp Growers LLC | Brain | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee was installing commercial-grade racking and was holding up a 15-foot section of racking. The racking began to fall and kicked out, pushing the employee to the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized for a head injury. | |||||
2021-05-05 | New Holland | Il | Atlas Crane Services Inc | Head and trunk | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
A blade fixture fell from a crane when a lifting strap broke. It struck an employee standing on the ground, causing injuries to the employee's head and abdomen. | |||||
2021-03-19 | New Holland | Pa | New Holland Sales Stables | Tooth (teeth) | Kicked by animal |
An employee was standing behind a horse when it kicked him in the face. He suffered six broken teeth. | |||||
2021-01-26 | Holland | Oh | Sperling Heating & Ventilation Co. Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
On January 26, 2021, an employee was operating a bending machine to fabricate various sizes of metal hangers. The employee's left hand was caught in the rollers while running the flat stock through the machine and four fingers were crushed and fractured. | |||||
2020-08-11 | New Holland | Pa | Casual Living Unlimited LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was lining up a piece of product to cut using an upcut saw when the foot pedal was engaged while the employee's thumb was still on the product, leading to an amputation of the left thumb. | |||||
2020-07-01 | South Holland | Illinois | Ed Miniat, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
On July 1, 2020, an employee was unjamming a packaging machine and sustained a partial amputation to the right index finger when the gloved finger contacted the blades inside of the machine. | |||||
2020-06-15 | South Holland | Illinois | Animated Manufacturing Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
On June 15, 2020, an employee was operating a punch press when his left hand entered the die area of the press. The foot pedal was then pressed, causing the machine to cycle and crush the employee's left palm and four fingers. As a result, the employee's left index finger was partially amputated. | |||||
2020-06-09 | South Holland | Illinois | Chicago Heights Glass, Inc. | Foot(feet) and leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
An employee was directing a forklift. The forklift picked up a load, backed up, and ran over the employee's left foot and leg, causing fractures and severe lacerations. | |||||
2020-05-11 | New Holland | Pennsylvania | Tyson Poultry Inc | Nose, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
While walking, an employee's legs gave out and the employee fell to the floor, suffering severe facial contusions and a broken nose. | |||||
2020-02-24 | Holland | Ohio | Cardinal Health | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee was hospitalized with a fractured ankle after tripping over a gas pump hose and falling at the gas station. | |||||
2020-01-27 | Holland | Ohio | Woodsage Holdings, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
On January 27, 2020, an employee was setting up an assembler in the assembly department when the employee's fingers became pinched between the die and the roller assembly, resulting in partial amputations of the index, middle, and ring fingers on the left hand. | |||||
2019-09-14 | South Holland | Illinois | RIDDIFORD ROOFING CO. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was guiding a crane as it lifted gravel onto a roof in its clamshell bucket. The employee's hand was caught and crushed in the bucket. | |||||
2019-09-09 | South Holland | Illinois | Niagara LaSalle Corp. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee pushed a bar through rollers. The employee's gloved hand was then pulled into the rollers resulting in a thumb amputation. | |||||
2019-09-03 | Holland | Ohio | Rudolph Libbe Inc. | Multiple trunk locations | Fall onto or against object on same level, n.e.c. |
On September 3, 2019, an employee tripped and fell backwards onto a 2-by-4 wooden stake that projected 20 inches from the ground. The employee suffered two broken ribs and a bruised spleen. | |||||
2019-03-20 | New Holland | Pennsylvania | Superior Plastic Products, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was inserting a PVC pipe into a spindle mold machine. The employee's fingers were caught in a pinch point, and the employee's right middle fingertip was crushed/amputated. | |||||
2019-03-13 | New Holland | Pennsylvania | VAL-CO Companies, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee placed the wire mesh into the wire trim machine. His left middle and ring fingers were amputated when the machine was activated. | |||||
2019-03-01 | South Holland | Illinois | Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was working on a customer's semi trailer. The engine was started, causing the trailer to lower onto the employee's right hand. The employee's index and middle fingers were crushed. | |||||
2019-02-04 | New Holland | Pennsylvania | CNH Industrial America, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was lifting a part with a hoist. As the part was being elevated, the employee's finger was caught between two parts causing a fingertip amputation. | |||||
2019-01-03 | New Holland | Pennsylvania | Case New Holland | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was performing the third bend on a piece of metal in a hydraulic press brake when the machine amputated his left middle finger midway down the fingernail. | |||||
2018-09-13 | Holland | Ohio | JOHNSON CONTROLS BATTERY GROUP, INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
On September 13, 2018, an employee was attempting to move a stuck battery from a heat seal machine when the employee's left index finger was caught between the lid and body of the battery, causing an amputation. | |||||
2018-08-21 | South Holland | Illinois | Industrial Plastic Recycling | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was clearing a jam on a shredding machine when his right hand was pulled into the conveyor belt, causing an amputation of his right pinky finger. He also suffered lacerations to his right ring finger, middle finger, and thumb. | |||||
2018-07-25 | South Holland | Illinois | Service King Collision Repair of South Holland | Leg(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was using a small handheld grinder to grind drain grates when the grinder lacerated the back of the employee's right leg. | |||||
2018-07-16 | New Holland | Pennsylvania | Advanced Food Products | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was helping a maintenance employee work on a can wash when the employee was splashed on the mid-section with scalding, hot water. | |||||
2018-06-23 | Holland | Ohio | Woodsage, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
On June 23, 2018, an employee was trying to remove a tube that had jammed in the in-feed rollers of a tube cutter. The roller's caught the employee's left glove, pulling in their fingers. The employee suffered an amputation injury to their left index finger. | |||||
2018-05-07 | New Holland | Pennsylvania | Wellborn Holdings, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was cutting wood with a radial saw when the wood became caught in the guard. He was trying to remove the wood when his left middle finger was amputated to the middle of the first knuckle. | |||||
2018-03-17 | South Holland | Illinois | Walter Lagestee Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
An employee was inspecting and photographing a running dough divider machine when the employee's left ring finger was caught and amputated in the moving parts. | |||||
2018-02-22 | Holland | Ohio | KCS Contracting, LLC | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was unscrewing track studs from the ceiling while standing on a Bakers scaffold. The scaffold rolled and the employee fell to the concrete ground below resulting in a concussion and a dislocated shoulder. | |||||
2018-01-06 | South Holland | Illinois | CR England | Nonclassifiable | Stabbing, cutting, slashing, piercing |
An employee was stabbed by a coworker. | |||||
2017-08-17 | Holland | Ohio | Bayes Incorporated | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
On August 17, 2017, an employee was on a step ladder helping to remove a sanitary sewer pipe in a ceiling when the employee fell approximately 4 feet off the step ladder, suffering cracked back vertebrae and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2017-08-01 | Holland | Ohio | OCP Contractors | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee had been hanging drywall when he became ill and was taken to the hospital for heat exhaustion. | |||||
2017-07-28 | New Holland | Pennsylvania | Dutch Valley Foods Dev | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was clearing a jam on the hot fill machine and amputated the left index fingertip when the machine started up unexpectedly. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time of the incident. | |||||
2017-03-06 | New Holland | Pennsylvania | Tyson Foods-New Holland Fresh Plant | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was attempting to move a conveyor back into its original position after moving it to grease a bearing on an adjacent conveyor. The employee grabbed the bottom legs of the conveyor and tried to pull it back into place. As he pulled on the bottom leg of the conveyor, the top end of the conveyor tilted or rocked which allowed his right gloved hand to travel down the conveyor leg and was smashed between the base plate of the conveyor leg and the floor amputating the fingertip. | |||||
2016-03-28 | New Holland | Pennsylvania | Tyson Foods, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
On March 28, 2016, an employee felt faint and dizzy and blacked out. When the employee came to, the right ring finger was caught between the conveyor and the guide bar. The employee's right ring fingertip was amputated. | |||||
2016-03-04 | Holland | Ohio | JOHNSON CONTROLS BATTERY GROUP, INC. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee cleaning a conveyor line came into contact with a chain and sprocket, amputating a fingertip. | |||||
2016-02-18 | South Holland | Illinois | UPS Ground Freight | Foot (feet) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
On February 18, 2016, an employee was checking freight material that had been loaded into trailers when a coworker hit him with a powered industrial vehicle. He sustained broken bones in his foot, as well as bruises and lacerations to both legs. | |||||
2016-02-02 | South Holland | Illinois | Chicago Heights Glass, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker |
An employee was handling glass panes when the glass shifted and fell on the employee resulting in injury that required hospitalization. | |||||
2016-01-11 | Holland | New York | Mullican Flooring LP | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee's fingertips got caught while he was trying to put a chain on a sprocket on a belt conveyor. His right ring and pinky fingertips were amputated. | |||||
2015-09-02 | New Holland | Pennsylvania | Haller Enterprises Incorporated | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
A maintenance employee was changing a belt on a fan in a paint booth when the other fans in the booth turned on. This caused the employee's fan to spin, and his finger got caught between the belt and pulley. His left ring finger got crushed and was later amputated. His right index finger was injured and required stitches. | |||||
2015-07-27 | New Holland | Pennsylvania | Fleur De Lait Foods | Ankle(s) and leg(s) | Nonroadway incident involving motorized land vehicle |
An employee was injured when his electric pallet jack accidentally made contact with his ankle, resulting in a broken ankle and fibula. | |||||
2015-07-16 | New Holland | Pennsylvania | Pellman Foods Inc | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was working near the wash line conveyor in the production area. She reached to remove a bucket from the conveyor when her right-hand pinky and ring fingertips were amputated by a chain and sprocket. | |||||
2015-03-06 | New Holland | Pennsylvania | Casual Living Unlimited LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was using a saw that kept clogging with sawdust. The employee placed the vac hose at the bottom of the saw, and the hose was sucked into the bottom. He sustained an amputation to his right-hand index finger. | |||||
2015-01-12 | South Holland | Illinois | Universal Metal Hose | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
Employee's finger got caught in a machine's drive belt resulting in an inpatient hospitalization and surgery. Temployee may lose the finger. | |||||
2015-01-07 | South Holland | Illinois | Jewel Food Stores, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
Employee suffered a partial amputation of the thumb while working with a band saw. |