| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-03 | Hopewell Junction | Ny | Global Foundries | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was putting on a cleanroom suit. When he stood up, he slipped and twisted his left ankle resulting in a fall and a fractured ankle. | |||||
| 2021-06-04 | Mount Hope | Oh | Weaver Leather LLC | Fingertip(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was working with leather using a manually held rotary knife and amputated their left index fingertip. | |||||
| 2020-07-11 | Hopelawn | New Jersey | Metropolitan Warehouse & Delivery Corp | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee tried to stop a load bar from falling off the back of a trailer. The falling bar struck and injured the employee's pinky finger. | |||||
| 2020-05-05 | Hopewell Junction | New York | Techtron Environmental, Inc. | Hand(s) | Nonstructural fire, n.e.c. |
| While installing plumbing in a clean room, an employee contacted a white powdery substance that burst into flames. The employee suffered thermal burns to the hands. | |||||
| 2020-03-12 | Hope | Arkansas | Anthony Wood Treating, Inc | Foot (feet) | Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle |
| An employee got out of his forklift and it moved forward, running over his foot and causing a compound fracture. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-08-31 | Mount Hope | Ohio | Overhead Door Corporation-Wayne Dalton | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was removing excess foam by the second guide in a conveyor when the employee's left ring fingertip was caught between a machinery/door panel and the conveyor line, resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2019-08-16 | Hope | Arkansas | TYSON FOODS INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee raised the door to a breading machine and the machine caused an amputation to the employee's right index finger. | |||||
| 2019-06-28 | Fairhope | Alabama | Gulf Health Hospitals | Ankle(s) | Stepped on object |
| An employee was assisting in patient care when the employee stepped on a medical line attached to a piece of equipment, causing the equipment to strike and fracture the employee's left ankle. | |||||
| 2019-06-27 | Hopewell Junction | New York | Mohegan Associates, Inc. | Multiple arm locations | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was unloading a sign trailer and disconnecting a sign from its travel supports. The employee's right arm was caught on the horizontal stiffener (Z-bar). The employee fell off the trailer and suffered a laceration to the right arm from under the arm pit to below the elbow. The brachial artery was severed. | |||||
| 2019-06-18 | Fairhope | Alabama | Aero-mark MRO, LLC | Hand(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| An employee was using new retraction tool to disassemble an air cycle machine unit. In the process of removing the retaining nut, the retraction tool's thread shaft adapter broke, causing a bubble or burst of hydraulic fluid to rupture at up to approximately 6,000 psi. The fluid cut/lacerated the employee's left hand between the middle and forefingers. He was hospitalized and required surgery. | |||||
| 2019-02-27 | Hopedale | Illinois | Help at Home | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| At 11:01 a.m., on February 27, 2019, an employee was walking from a client's house up a hill to a parking lot. The employee slipped and fell down the hill, suffering a broken left tibia and fibula. The employee was hospitalized, requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2019-01-06 | Hope Valley | Rhode Island | Ocean State Job Lot | Lumbar region | Multiple types of overexertion involving outside sources |
| An employee suffered a lumbar strain while lifting and carrying boxes of merchandise up and down a ladder. | |||||
| 2018-09-19 | Fairhope | Alabama | DENNIS E. CAMPBELL CONSTRUCTION, INC. | Neck and back | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee fell approximately 9 feet from a basement wall to the concrete floor while installing anchor bolts due to possible heat exhaustion, suffering a broken neck and spinal injuries. | |||||
| 2018-09-06 | Hopedale | Massachusett | Hart Engineering Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| As a banded load of concrete forms was lowered onto a flatbed trailer using a forklift, it crushed a trailer truck operator's finger. The tip was amputated. | |||||
| 2018-08-19 | Hope | Arkansas | BAKERY FEEDS | Multiple foot (feet) locations | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment 21 to 25 feet |
| An employee was repairing a tower master where cables come out of a bucket to load modules of dough into a trailer. He climbed into one of the buckets and a kink formed in the cable, which slid off a U-bolt and jerked, dropping about 4 feet. Later, the cable came loose and the bucket fell about 25 feet to the ground with the employee still inside. He fractured his right foot and pinky toe and injured his vertebrae, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2018-05-24 | Fairhope | Alabama | Red Tide, LLC | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee was at a residential house cleaning windows. He climbed a ladder onto a wet metal roof with tools in hand to clean a second story window. He then slipped and fell to the ground, breaking his right tibia and fibula. | |||||
| 2018-05-16 | Hope | Arkansas | SOUTHERN BAKERIES | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| An employee was sweeping flour dust off of equipment when the machine guard unlatched and opened the machine guard door. The employee was attempting to close the door when another piece of the machine guarding became unsecured. While attempting to reinstall the guard that became unsecured, the employee's hand contacted the exposed motor chain, which was running. This caused the employee's hand to be pulled into the in-running chain and sprocket, partially amputating the employee's left pinky fin | |||||
| 2018-03-27 | Mount Hope | Ohio | Overhead Door Corporation-Wayne Dalton | Thigh(s) | Fall, slip, trip |
| On March 27, 2018, an employee was using a prybar to free bound material on a wire dispensing carriage station when the prybar slipped free, causing the employee to lose balance and fall to the concrete floor. The employee suffered a spiral fracture of the upper left leg. | |||||
| 2018-02-24 | Stanhope | New Jersey | Liberty Coca Cola | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee slipped while attempting to move/adjust a dock plate from the ground. The employee's back struck a truck's safety bar, fracturing vertebrae and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2018-02-07 | Hope | Arkansas | SOUTHERN BAKERIES, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was replacing the belt on the blower motor of a flour silo when the motor energized and amputated the left middle fingertip. | |||||
| 2018-01-11 | Stanhope | New Jersey | ShopRite of Byram | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Overexertion in lifting-single episode |
| An employee was lifting packed meats from the floor when he sustained severe back strains. His legs then buckled and he collapsed to the ground. | |||||
| 2017-08-08 | Hope Hull | Alabama | HAGER COMPANIES | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| While an employee was checking the cam on a PLC machine, the machine indexed and caught the employee's right hand between the spring platform and the lock cylinder, resulting in a laceration. The machine was not locked out or tagged out at the time. | |||||
| 2017-05-30 | Hopewell | Illinois | Shawn Yarger | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet |
| An employee was trimming a tree from an elevated bucket at an approximate height of 50 feet when a portion of the tree that was cut fell and struck the bucket. This caused the bucket to fall to a lower position approximately 8 feet below the original work position. The employee was flipped out the bucket and fell 42 more feet to the ground, breaking bones and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-05-08 | New Hope | Pennsylvania | Shanahan & Luff Construction | Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) | Excavation or trenching cave-in |
| An employee was working in a 5.5-feet-deep trench when a portion of the trench gave way and struck the employee's shoulder, dislocating it. | |||||
| 2017-01-31 | Mount Hope | Ohio | Overhead Door | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was operating the shaper that bevels the edges of small pieces angled to fit into a garage door and contacted the shaper blade amputating a fingertip. | |||||
| 2017-01-22 | Hope Hull | Alabama | Genpak, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was operating an extruding repalletizer. The line jammed and when he broke the line loose, his fingers were pulled into the machine resulting in the amputation of the left index and middle fingertips. The machine was energized at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2017-01-01 | Fairhope | Alabama | Fairhope Health and Rehab, LLC | Hip(s) | Fall on same level |
| An employee was at the nurse's desk, turned, and fell to the tile floor fracturing the left hip. | |||||
| 2016-06-13 | Hope | Arkansas | Southern Bakeries LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| An employee was checking the drive bracket on a conveyor when the conveyor activated. His left thumb tip was caught and amputated in the conveyor chain. The conveyor was unguarded and not locked out at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2016-04-23 | Hope | Arkansas | TYSON FOODS INC. | Leg(s) | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee was cleaning the equipment and floors in an area when an ammonia release occurred. The employee was exposed to the ammonia and suffered second degree burns to her right leg, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2015-12-30 | Pleasant Hope | Missouri | VALLEY OF THE MOON COMMERCIAL POULTS | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Needlestick without exposure to harmful substance |
| An employee was injected with a poultry vaccine that caused a blockage of blood flow to his finger. | |||||
| 2015-11-25 | Hope | Arkansas | TYSON FOODS INC. | Fingertip(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
| An employee was moving a strapper machine after making boxes. The machine amputated his left pinky fingertip when he moved it back into position. | |||||
| 2015-10-17 | Mount Hope | Ohio | Overhead Door Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| A temporary employee had his left hand middle finger amputated while using a cut-off saw to cut up scrap OSB on or about October 17, 2015. | |||||
| 2015-10-02 | Mount Hope | Ohio | Weaver Leather LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was clamping rope clamps when her hand got caught in the machine. She suffered a partial amputation to her left index finger. | |||||
| 2015-08-01 | Hope | Arkansas | TYSON FOODS INC. | Multiple mouth locations | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| A maintenance employee was getting a glass to rinse out his mouth after having some coffee. He immediately noticed the water tasted funny and spit out the water. A chemical sanitizer, pH+, used in the facility had back-flowed into the potable water lines and contaminated the drinking water. The employee's lips, inside of the mouth, and tongue were burned. | |||||
| 2015-07-11 | Hope Hull | Alabama | Genpak, LLC | Nonclassifiable | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
| An employee received 2nd and 3rd degree burns when operating a forklift truck to unload polystyrene rolls from a trailer. It is believed a propane pocket was ignited by static electricity. | |||||
| 2015-06-18 | Hope Hull | Alabama | Genpak, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee's left ring fingertip was amputated on June 18, 2015, after reaching his hand in a repelletizer to clear a jam. | |||||
| 2015-05-28 | Hope Hull | Alabama | Koch Foods of Alabama LLC | Arm(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| On May 28, 2015, a truck driver entered the scale platform from the opposite direction of its designed use. The scale platform was designed with a walking surface on the driver's side and a guardrail on the passenger side. The driver exited his truck and stepped onto the top rail of the guardrail system. It was raining at the time. The driver slipped and fell to the ground. The driver experience a compound fracture to his left arm. The driver was taken to the hospital, treated, and release | |||||
| 2015-04-29 | Hope Hull | Alabama | HAGER COMPANIES | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| Employees were manually aligning 6"x6"x9' stainless steel beams weighing approximately 300 lbs on the tank stands. The injured employee and another employee were aligning beams in the same sequence on the same line. The supervisors were making the final adjustments when the employee attempted to help and his right little finger was pinched between the beam and the beam that was already in place. The employee was wearing gloves at the time of the incident. This resulted in a partial amputation | |||||
| 2015-02-10 | Hopewell Junction | New York | IBM CORPORATION | Nonclassifiable | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| Employee was working in the Wets Tool Area which has hydrofluoric acid (HF) in the wafer and tool area. The employee was exposed to HF and was sent to the Burn Unit in Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, PA. The employee is scheduled for skin graft surgery. | |||||
| 2015-02-02 | Hopewell Junction | New York | IBM | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee walking in the parking lot, slipped on snow/ice and fell injuring his hip. | |||||
| 2015-01-11 | Hope | New Jersey | H M Rohsler Nursery Inc. | Leg(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| Employee injured left leg while working with a chain saw. He was cutting a branch at the end of the day when the saw sprung back. | |||||