Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-10-25 | Indianola | Ok | IHC Scott | Foot (feet) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee climbed inside a rubber-tracked placer to clean it. While the employee was inside the hopper, it was moved forward and the auger was turned on. The auger struck the employee, both of whose feet were broken. | |||||
2021-08-05 | Indianola | Pa | Allegheny Steel Distributors, Inc. | Head | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
An employee was transporting a coil of steel when the banding let loose and the tail of the coil struck the employee in the head. | |||||
2020-07-13 | Indianola | Mississippi | Capstone Logistics, LLC | Leg(s) | Fall or jump from and struck by same vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway |
An employee was using an electric riding pallet jack to unload a trailer when the jack stopped running and the employee fell off. The jack then kept going, striking and pinning the employee to the trailer floor. The employee was hospitalized with a broken leg. | |||||
2020-03-19 | Indianola | Mississippi | Dolgencorp LLC | Lower leg(s) | Nonroadway collision with other vehicle |
At breaktime, an employee was parking an electric pallet jack and was struck by another electric pallet jack. The injured employee sustained a broken lower left leg. | |||||
2019-06-18 | Indianola | Mississippi | Dollar General | Leg(s) | Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle |
An employee was using a motorized pallet jack to load products when she stepped off the motorized pallet jack and accidentally pulled the throttle handle. The pallet jack then backed into her leg and broke it. | |||||
2016-04-02 | Indianola | Mississippi | Capstone Logistics Indianola | Thigh(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
An employee was driving an electric pallet jack down an incline when his left leg was pinned into a guardrail, fracturing his left femur. | |||||
2015-01-14 | Indianola | Pennsylvania | Allegheny Steel Distributors, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
An employee was hospitalized after sustaining an injury to his right ring finger in the coil bay. The employee caught his right ring finger between a C-hook and a coil while operating an overhead crane remotely. |