| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-29 | Kiel | Wi | H.G. Weber and Company, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| On June 28, 2021, at approximately 1:00 PM, an employee was adjusting the timing and speed of the bundler and transport modules on a paper bag manufacturing machine. A stack of 25 paper bags became misaligned as it went onto the transport module. The employee was adjusting the stack when his right thumb was caught in the point of operation between the bundler and transport modules resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2021-05-19 | Kiel | Wi | Walsdorf Roofing Company, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a brake machine and amputated their left thumb. | |||||
| 2020-07-22 | Kieler | Wisconsin | Packers Sanitation Services, Inc. LTD | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| On July 22, 2020, at approximately 2:00 AM, an employee was preparing to wash down equipment. When he opened the door of the equipment, his left thumb was pinched against the power panel attached to the opposite wall, causing an injury that required surgical amputation of the distal portion of the thumb. | |||||
| 2019-07-26 | Kiel | Wisconsin | Jack Walters and Sons Corp | Multiple body parts | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
| An employee was operating a telehandler to set trusses on a new construction site. The employee was making a y-turn maneuver to position the telehandler perpendicular to the sidewall and raise the small post frame truss up and over the 12-foot sidewall. The telehandler was on a steep grade. As the employee was making the maneuver, the telehandler began tipping to the side. The employee attempted to jump from the operator's seat and was struck by the roll cage. The employee was hospitalized with | |||||
| 2017-07-11 | Kiel | Wisconsin | SARGENTO FOODS INC | Wrist(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee tripped over a cord protector on the floor. She fell onto her left wrist and broke it, requiring surgery and overnight hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-06-16 | Kiel | Wisconsin | Stoelting LLC | Lower leg(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was manually guiding metal blanks (weighing 22 pounds each) from a conveyor to a skid supported by a power pallet jack when the skid broke. The metal blanks then slid off the skid and struck the employee's lower right leg, fracturing it. | |||||
| 2016-10-14 | Kiel | Wisconsin | Amerequip Corporation Plant 3 | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| On October 14, 2016, an employee had her finger in a pivot point on a backhoe assembly to determine if the two holes were aligned. The employee operated a hydraulic control that moved the pivot point and amputated her right index finger. The pivot point on the backhoe assembly was not guarded at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2016-03-13 | Kiel | Wisconsin | SARGENTO FOODS INC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was attempting to fix a registration issue on a machine's fill and seal line. As he went to remove a cover off the stretch cylinder, the machine cycled. His left middle finger was crushed between the machine's collar and the stretching cylinder, amputating his left middle fingertip. | |||||
| 2015-12-14 | Kiel | Wisconsin | SARGENTO FOODS INC | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was moving a breader into position for a production run when the breader fell off the tracks and the hopper created a pinch point that amputated the employee's left pinky fingertip. | |||||