Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-05-19 | Knox | Pa | 2K Wholesale Inc | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was unloading a dumpster into a bin when the dumpster lid closed on his right hand and amputated multiple fingertips. | |||||
2021-05-17 | Knox City | Tx | Windstream Communications, LLC | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
An employee was climbing a ladder. The ladder twisted and the employee fell about 12-15 feet, suffering a rib injury, a spine injury, and a bruised lung. | |||||
2021-04-14 | Knox City | Tx | R and R Services | Fingernail(s), nailbed(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping |
An employee was walking with a pipe in his hand when he tripped and fell. The employee's finger was smashed between the pipe and the floor, resulting in the detachment of their fingernail that required surgery and hospitalization to be reattached. | |||||
2015-09-30 | Knoxville | Tennessee | U. S. Census Bureau | Knee(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
On or about 9/30/2015, an employee slipped and fell after stepping into spilled/leaking water on a sloped walkway next to a fountain/garden. The employee fractured a kneecap. | |||||
2015-08-13 | Fort Knox | Kentucky | Hutchins Telecom | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Stings and venomous bites |
An employee reached into an open trench to straighten some conduit and was bitten on the left-hand finger by a venomous snake. | |||||
2015-05-21 | Knox City | Texas | Allsup Enterprise Inc. | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
On May 21, 2015, an employee slipped and fell and was hospitalized with a fractured hip. | |||||
2015-04-17 | Knox | Pennsylvania | Seigworth Road Supply, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Struck by rolling object or equipment-other than powered vehicle |
An employee was injured when struck-by plastic pipes while unloading. The worker was hospitalized. | |||||
2015-04-17 | Knox | Pennsylvania | Haviland Drainage Products Co. | Nonclassifiable | Struck by rolling object or equipment-other than powered vehicle |
A delivery driver from Haviland Drainage was injured by plastic pipes that rolled off of the Haviland delivery truck. The worker was hospitalized. | |||||
2015-02-27 | Knoxville | Tennessee | U.S. Postal Service | Hand(s) | Other animal bites, nonvenomous |
An employee was delivering mail to a residence. The mailbox was mounted to the outside of a fence near a gate. A pit-bull/boxer mix that was inside of the fence jumped on the gate, causing it to open. When the dog attacked the employee, she put up her right hand and the dog bit it, resulting in broken bones. She was hospitalized. |