| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-09 | Hot Springs | Ar | CHI St. Vincent | Brain | Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving |
| A patient kicked an employee in the head. The employee suffered a brain bleed and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-08-23 | Hot Springs | Ar | Timber Automation, LLC. | Nonclassifiable | Struck by object or equipment |
| An employee was working on a piece of welded equipment. Having been lifted on one side by a crane, the equipment was being supported by the crane on one side and by a horse and braces on the other. While the employee was under the equipment adjusting the horse, the equipment shifted; the horse struck and injured the employee. | |||||
| 2021-07-26 | Hot Springs | Ar | Aluma-Weld, Inc. Xpress Boating | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| On July 26, 2021, an employee became ill after a hot, humid day spent preparing aluminum fishing boats to be painted. She was hospitalized, suffering from dehydration. | |||||
| 2021-02-26 | Hot Springs | Ar | FedEx Freight | Wrist(s) and arm(s) | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
| An employee was closing the rear door of a trailer when he slipped and the door came down onto his arm, resulting in a broken wrist/forearm. | |||||
| 2020-09-26 | Hot Springs | Ar | Presto-X | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was servicing bait stations on the exterior of a facility. The employee was stepping over an air conditioning supply line which was 8-10 inches above the ground, when his left foot was caught on the line. His leg twisted, causing him to fall and fracture his left femur. | |||||
| 2020-08-13 | Hot Springs | Ar | AIRTECH SUPPLY, INC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was placing a work piece on a female die section. The press was activated and the male die section came down on the employee's right middle and ring fingertips, crushing them. Each fingertip was amputated at the first joint. | |||||
| 2020-06-04 | Hot Springs | Arkansas | Craft Manufacturing & Tooling Inc. | Multiple body parts | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee opened a paint oven door to unload a cart of parts from the oven. As he was reaching into the oven, the door hit the left side of his forehead above the eye. He fell to the ground and the door of the oven broke loose from the chain, then fell onto him. He suffered a broken hip, a broken thumb, and a cracked heel bone and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-08-14 | Hot Springs | Arkansas | Aluma-Weld Inc | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| At 2:00 p.m. on August 14, 2019, after driving a pickup truck in the morning, an employee began to suffer cramping and lightheadedness. He was hospitalized, suffering from possible heat stress. | |||||
| 2019-03-07 | Hot Springs | Arkansas | STAYBRIDGE SUITES HOT SPRINGS | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was standing on a chair, filling the ice bend of a soda fountain. The chair slid out from under her and she fell, breaking her ankle. | |||||
| 2019-02-12 | Hot Springs | Arkansas | Shaw Industries, Inc. | Multiple foot (feet) locations | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was unloading the back of a trailer with an electric pallet jack and smashed his foot between the pallet jack and the trailer interior wall. The employee sustained a broken foot and several broken toes. | |||||
| 2019-02-07 | Hot Springs | Arkansas | Berry Global, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was performing maintenance on a plastic compression molding machine and suffered the partial amputation of the right thumb. The machine was not guarded or locked-out at the time. | |||||
| 2019-02-04 | Hot Springs | Arkansas | Aluma-Weld, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
| There was a fire in the foam department. An employee knocked over a bucket of acetone which splashed onto his clothes. The clothes ignited and the employee was burned. | |||||
| 2018-02-09 | Hot Springs | Arkansas | NPC International Inc. | Leg(s) | Fall on same level |
| An employee was washing dishes when he fell to the floor and fractured his right leg, requiring hospitalization. Non-slip shoes were not worn at the time. | |||||
| 2018-01-31 | Hot Springs | Arkansas | MOUNTAIN VALLEY SPRING COMPANY, LLC. | Fingertip(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was working on the multi-gallon conveyor line while using a line jack to raise the conveyor line. The conveyor line slipped off the block and crushed the employee's left ring finger, amputating the fingertip and nail. | |||||
| 2018-01-29 | Hot Springs | Arkansas | QUESTCO, INC. | Arm(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was setting pieces of 24-inch reinforced concrete pipe when his right arm was caught between two pieces of pipe as they were being joined. His right arm broke. | |||||
| 2017-10-03 | Paradise Hot Springs | Idaho | Godina Farm Labor Inc. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was tightening a loose hook bolt on a hops picker when her right hand was caught and pulled into the rotating hook, tearing ligaments and requiring surgery. The hops picker was unguarded at the time. | |||||
| 2017-09-12 | Hot Springs | Arkansas | Aluma-Weld Inc | Upper arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was baling scrap aluminum. The employee attempted to dislodge a piece of aluminum while the baler was operating. The employee's arm was caught in the door resulting in a laceration to the employee's bicep. | |||||
| 2017-08-11 | Hot Springs | Arkansas | United States Postal Service | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was walking her mail route when she slipped and fell on wet gravel. She broke her left ankle in three different places, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-07-21 | Hot Springs | South Dakota | RDO Equipment Co. | Hand(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was servicing a trailer when the trailer rolled backwards. His hand was caught and partially amputated between the trailer and a truck. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-03-15 | Hot Springs | Arkansas | Newsome Trucking Inc. | Multiple face locations | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee was providing assistance to a customer while using a caustic tank. The customer product inlet line had no shutoff valve and the product hose had a downward angle to the truck tank unloading pad. When the employee blew down the product hose, he was sprayed in the face by caustic sodium hydroxide solution, resulting in burns to his mouth, lips, and face. | |||||
| 2017-02-02 | Hot Springs | Arkansas | Xpress Boats | Foot (feet) | Stepped on object |
| An employee was exiting a forklift when he stepped on a nail. He was hospitalized with an abscess in his left foot. | |||||
| 2017-01-09 | Hot Springs | Arkansas | Triumph Fabrications-Hot Springs | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was operating a table saw when a piece of wood kicked back. The employee's fingertip was amputated. | |||||
| 2016-07-10 | Hot Springs National Park | Arkansas | Levi Hospital, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Nonclassifiable |
| An employee was not feeling well and she was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2016-01-29 | Hot Springs | Arkansas | Club Corp Club Operations Inc | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was getting up from a chair when the chair broke, causing the employee to fall and injure his right ankle. | |||||
| 2015-12-12 | Hot Springs | Arkansas | U.S. Postal Service | Hand(s) | Other animal bites, nonvenomous |
| An employee was bitten on the right hand by a dog while delivering mail. | |||||
| 2015-05-20 | Hot Springs | Arkansas | Sears Store #2126 | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate |
| An employee was using the baler compactor and he manually closed the gate on his right ring finger. The injury resulted in a partial amputation of the right ring finger up to the first knuckle. | |||||
| 2015-04-19 | Hot Springs | Arkansas | ORG Chem Group, LLC | Hand(s) | Explosion of nonpressurized vapors, gases, or liquids |
| An employee was on a catwalk in the boiler room washing out two 2,000 gallon mixing tanks that previously contained diethanolamine (DEA) with water. The water was draining into a 275 gallon poly tote. The tote exploded creating a fire. The employee received burns to the top of his hand and injured his ankle. | |||||
| 2015-03-19 | Hot Springs Village | Arkansas | HOT SPRINGS VILLIAGE PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was leaning from a boat to remove a log from Lake Desoto when a wave swell caused an unexpected shift. The shift caused her finger to get caught between the boat and the log, amputating the first segment of her right index finger. | |||||