Machine Injury & Accidents

Date	City	State	Employer	Body Part	Event
2019-06-28	Quinwood	West Virgini	Price Gregory International	Knee(s) and leg(s)	Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway
An employee was operating a utility terrain vehicle (UTV). The UTV rolled onto its left side and the employee sustained lacerations and skin damage to the left leg and knee requiring hospitalization.
2018-07-09	Ellinwood	Kansas	K & K Inc	Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
An employee was waiting for an excavator to move its boom into place and stop operating. The excavator stopped, and the employee walked toward the machine. The bucket began to move again and struck the employee, causing a spleen injury.
2018-04-17	Quinwood	West Virgini	Cogar Right of Way Clearing, LLC	Neck and back	Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
After a tree had been felled, a dead limb fell out of an adjacent tree and struck an employee in the back of the neck and back. He was hospitalized with a fractured neck and back.
2018-01-05	Inwood	New York	Sunoco, LP	Thigh(s)	Fall on same level due to slipping
An employee slipped and fell on a wet floor inside a work site building, suffering a broken femur. The weather was icy and snowy at the time and the floor was wet from employees entering from outside.
2017-09-21	Inwood	New York	USC-Kings, LLC	Fingertip(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
An employee was hooking a metal chain to a loader bucket when the loader operator began to lift the load. The employee's right thumb tip was then amputated by the chain.
2017-06-30	Ellinwood	Kansas	Woodhaven Care Center	Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Standing, standing up-single episode
An employee was on the front porch, pulling out weeds from the flower bed. As she stood up, she felt pain in her stomach area. She was hospitalized overnight for surgery.
2016-07-11	Linwood	Kansas	Quality Structures Inc	Multiple body parts	Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
An employee was placing blocking between the rafters when he stepped wrong and fell from an approximate height of 16 feet to the dirt below, breaking his femur, tibia, and two vertebrae.
2016-04-03	Inwood	West Virgini	Knauf Insulation, Inc.	Head	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee entered a bag holder to access a bag placer carriage and monorail where a bag had fallen. While the employee was kneeling below the monorail to pick up the bag, the bag placer carriage engaged, pinching the employee's head between the carriage and monorail. The employee suffered head lacerations that required sutures, as well as contusions on both sides of the head and nose.