Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-09-28 | Kirkwood | Ny | Buckingham Manufacturing CO | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
On September 28, 2020, an employee was cutting straps with a round knife machine. The blade partially amputated his left middle finger, cutting through the bone. | |||||
2020-04-27 | Kirkwood | Missouri | Lowe's Home Improvement Store #764 | Head and trunk | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was found laying on the ground with a broken rib, concussion, and laceration above his eye, potentially as a result of a fall from a ladder. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2020-01-28 | Kirkwood | New York | Masonite Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was troubleshooting a door machine issue when his right hand entered the point of operation, striking a rotating drill bit and amputating the right ring finger at the base of the hand and the first knuckle. | |||||
2019-07-17 | Kirkwood | New York | Masonite Corp. | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was exiting from the back of a tractor trailer. The employee slipped on wet diamond plate and fell to the ground, breaking his hip. | |||||
2019-05-13 | Kirkwood | Missouri | ARROW BOX COMPANY OF ST lOUIS | Leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was walking through the facility near where flattened boxes were stacked when the boxes fell and knocked him down. He suffered broken bones in his leg. | |||||
2019-02-23 | Kirkwood | Missouri | Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
An employee on a 6-foot ladder, cleaning an external dryer vent that was about 11.5 feet above a patio. The ladder tipped over and the employee fell; his head hit the patio furniture and then the concrete patio itself, and he briefly lost consciousness. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2018-08-08 | Kirkwood | Pennsylvania | Octorara Roofing, LLC | Foot (feet) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
An employee was operating a pneumatic nail gun at the ridge of the roof when the gun shot a nail into his foot, entering the bone. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2015-04-24 | Kirkwood | Missouri | BOHN & DAWSON | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee operating a swager bypassed a guard and smashed the left-hand pointer and middle fingers, resulting in multiple amputations. |