| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-26 | Hutchins | Tx | Kenco Logistics Services | Foot (feet) | Nonroadway collision with other vehicle |
| An employee was driving down an aisle on a stand-up forklift and collided with another stand-up forklift, resulting in a fractured left foot. | |||||
| 2021-10-14 | Hutchinson | Ks | Superior Boiler | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was placing material on a brake press. The brake was activated and partially amputated the employee's finger. | |||||
| 2021-06-14 | Hutchinson | Ks | Prairie Landworks Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was picking up tools at the end of the work day on an outdoor job site. The employee became ill, suffering from heat exhaustion. | |||||
| 2021-02-10 | Hutchins | Tx | Shippers Warehouse, Inc. | Foot (feet) | Moving in opposite directions, oncoming, nonroadway |
| An employee was driving a stand-on electric pallet jack when it was struck by a reach forklift coming from an opposite lane. The employee was thrown off his pallet jack and sustained a broken left foot. | |||||
| 2021-01-13 | Hutchins | Tx | FedEx Ground Package System Inc | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Struck by object or equipment |
| An employee was loading a trailer. As the trailer flap was being lowered, it dropped and hit his big toe, injuring it. The toe was medically amputated. | |||||
| 2020-06-26 | Hutchins | Texas | Fedex Ground | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was closing a trailer when the employee's right pinky finger was caught between the trailer flap, resulting in a finger amputation. | |||||
| 2020-06-15 | Hutchins | Texas | Republic Services - Hutchins | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee developed heat-related dizziness and a headache while finishing a collection route. | |||||
| 2020-05-05 | Hutchins | Texas | Shippers Warehouse, Inc. | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle |
| An employee was driving a pallet jack when it hit a shrink wrap machine. The employee suffered a broken right big toe and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2020-01-12 | Hutchinson | Kansas | JACKSON DAIRY | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was doing preventive maintenance on a gallon caser, cycling the cylinders to identify leaking cylinders or sticking solenoids. He noticed some buildup on the fingers of the machine and was trying to determine how much buildup was present when the fingers crushed his right index finger, removing about half his fingernail and some tissue above the bone. | |||||
| 2019-08-26 | Hutchinson | Kansas | SUPERIOR BOILER WORKS INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was cutting 1-by-6-by-6s with a chop saw. The saw amputated the last joint of his left index finger. | |||||
| 2019-08-01 | Hutchins | Texas | Signicast, LLC | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was putting metal in a pot to melt. The top of the metal started to solidify; the employee was using a rebar to poke a hole in the top to mix the metal when some of the metal splashed onto coils outside the pot. This caused steam to build up and pressurize the metal, which expanded and flew out of the pot. The employee fell while trying to escape the splash, landing on metal that had hit the floor. The employee suffered second-degree burns to the hands, left knee, and stomach. | |||||
| 2019-07-23 | Hutchins | Texas | Shippers Warehouse, Inc. | Leg(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was putting away inbound freight using a forklift and struck a wall. The employee's left leg was caught and broken between the forklift and the wall. | |||||
| 2019-07-15 | Hutchins | Texas | Newton Welding Services, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet |
| An employee was installing steel decking to the roof a warehouse while standing on a roof truss. The employee lost his footing and fell. He was wearing personal fall protection which included a full body harness, a D-ring extension, a retractable lanyard, and a beam anchor clamp. After falling approximately 21 feet, the retractable device caught and stopped his fall but then the D-ring extension’s threading failed and it broke. The employee then free-fell approximately 27 feet to the concrete fl | |||||
| 2019-04-18 | Hutchins | Texas | Fedex Ground | Brain | Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway |
| An employee was entering the back of a truck when the truck pulled away from the dock and the employee fell to the concrete ground, suffering a contusion and lacerations of the cerebrum. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-02-15 | Hutchinson | Kansas | Seimens Gamesa Renewable Energy | Forearm(s) | Struck by object or equipment |
| A piece of crane rigging struck an employee's right arm, breaking the radius, dislocating the ulna, and causing a laceration. The employee was hospitalized, requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2018-07-13 | Hutchins | Texas | FedEx Groud | Ankle(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker |
| An employee was moving a package (containing the casing for an electrical panel) from unloading to a conveyor. As the employee took the one step to the conveyor, the package fell and struck the employee's right ankle, causing a laceration. | |||||
| 2017-08-28 | Hutchins | Texas | Bocks Board Packaging of Texas, Inc. | Hand(s) and finger(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was removing corrugated paper from a rotary sheeting machine and putting it into boxes when the machine became jammed. While she was attempting to unjam it, her right hand was caught in the feed rollers of the machine, de-gloving the skin and breaking her fingers. All of her fingers had to be surgically amputated. The machine was running at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2017-08-07 | Hutchinson | Kansas | WOODWORK MANUFACTURING & SUPPLY, INC. | Trunk | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was using a straight-line rip saw to shave wood when a 9-inch piece of wood impaled his right-side lower body. | |||||
| 2017-07-15 | Hutchinson | Kansas | Townsend Tree Service Company, LLC | Lower leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was trimming trees when a tree limb fell on and fractured the employee's left lower leg. | |||||
| 2017-03-23 | Hutchins | Texas | SHIPPERS WAREHOUSE, INC. | Hand(s) | Nonroadway incident involving motorized land vehicle |
| An employee was operating a forklift and driving it to the charging station when the forklift skidded on the wet floor. The employee tried to stop the forklift by extending his arm. In the process, he crushed his hand. | |||||
| 2016-09-16 | Hutchinson | Kansas | Corizon Health, Inc. | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was walking on a wet cement sidewalk from the hall gate to the clinic about 50 yards away when he lost footing, fell in front of the maintenance building, and fractured his right femur. | |||||
| 2016-07-27 | Hutchinson | Kansas | USPS Hutchinson | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| After delivering mail, an employee experienced a headache, cramps, and dizziness due to heat exposure, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2016-06-10 | Hutchinson | Kansas | Hutchinson Regional Healthcare System | BODY SYSTEMS | Ingestion of harmful substance |
| An employee was sprayed in the face with general purpose cleaner as he was mixing the chemicals. He suffered an allergic reaction to the medication he was given. | |||||
| 2016-02-27 | Hutchinson | Kansas | Hutchinson Fertilizer LLC | Elbow(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| While attempting to remove buildup from a concrete ledge, an employee fell from a 10-foot portable A-frame ladder to the ground. The employee's left elbow broke and required surgery. | |||||
| 2016-01-19 | Hutchinson | Kansas | Reefer Systems, Inc | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was attempting to repair a carrier truck. When checking the slippage on the alternator belt, the system started and pulled the employee's right thumb through the pulley resulting in amputation of the right thumb tip at the hospital. | |||||
| 2016-01-02 | Hutchinson | Kansas | Direct TV | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| While installing cable at a residence, an employee slipped on ice while walking on the concrete sidewalk to his work truck. He broke his right ankle and had surgery. | |||||
| 2015-12-03 | Hutchins | Texas | Quala | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was getting ready to load two intermediate bulk containers. The two containers slammed against each other and caught the employee's finger between them. The left pinky fingernail tip was amputated. | |||||
| 2015-07-02 | Hutchins | Texas | Tuff Shed Inc. | Hand(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
| An employee's hand was cut/scratched by a piece of metal while cleaning up trash/debris. The employee was later hospitalized for treatment of a hand infection due to the injury. | |||||
| 2015-06-05 | Hutchinson | Kansas | Hutchinson Regional Medical Center | BODY SYSTEMS | Overexertion in holding, carrying, or wielding-single episode |
| An employee was responding to an emergency medical call for a near drowning. The employee had to carry equipment about 1/4 mile through tall grass to get to the location. The employee had performed emergency medical treatment and then experienced lightheadedness and shortness of breath. The employee was treated in the emergency room and admitted for observation. | |||||
| 2015-02-16 | Hutchins | Texas | Staples Print Solutions | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| Employee's fingertip was amputated while cleaning a printing press roller. | |||||