| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | |||||
| 2017-01-22 | 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. | |||||
| 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 | |||||