| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-27 | Longmont | Co | LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL INC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was installing a ramp weighing approximately 500 pounds from the sidewalk to the back of a trailer when his left ring finger became pinched between the ramp and the sidewalk, resulting in amputation. | |||||
| 2021-06-16 | Longmont | Co | ROYAL CREST DAIRY INC. | Upper and lower limb(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was walking though the washroom when a barrel that was being filled with caustic liquid overflowed. The employee slipped on the caustic liquid, resulting in chemical burns to their left wrist and right leg. | |||||
| 2021-01-29 | Longmont | Co | J.M. Smucker LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker |
| An employee was transferring a 55-gallon drum to a secondary containment pallet. The employee slipped and fell, causing the drum to also fall. The drum fell on the employee's hand, resulting in the amputation of the right index fingertip and the right middle finger at the first knuckle. | |||||
| 2020-07-02 | Longmont | Colorado | Acevedos Construction | Fingertip(s) | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
| An employee was lowering the metal chute of a concrete truck when it crushed the tips of his left middle and ring fingers. The fingertips were medically amputated. | |||||
| 2020-06-23 | Longmont | Colorado | Qa 2 Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving |
| Two employees were assaulted by a customer in a cell phone store, suffering bruises. | |||||
| 2020-06-10 | Longmont | Colorado | Precise Cables, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was attempting to unclog a heat shrink machine when the machine's blade amputated the employee's right middle fingertip. | |||||
| 2020-05-12 | Longmont | Colorado | Circle Graphics, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| A temporary employee was trying to dislodge a keyboard that had fallen onto a machine. The machine amputated the employee's fingertip. | |||||
| 2020-04-28 | Longmont | Colorado | Oliver Technologies Inc | Arm(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was loading a curtain trailer when the employee slipped on insulation and fell backward off the trailer. The employee fell 4 to 5 feet, suffering a fractured right arm that required surgery. | |||||
| 2020-04-22 | Longmont | Colorado | A.P Eberlein Company, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| The injured employee was moving a stone up one level to another employee on a scaffold, when he lost his balance and fell on the stone he was standing on, injuring his back and hand. | |||||
| 2020-02-07 | Longmont | Colorado | The J.M. Smucker Company | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| A bakery machine roller crushed an employee's arm. She was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-07-29 | Longmont | Colorado | Xpo Logistics, LLC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was disconnecting the back trailer from the converter dolly on the truck. There are hooked safety chains between the trailer and the converter dolly. The trailer dropped and pulled a safety chain tight. The chain caught his finger and caused the amputation of the right index finger to the second joint. | |||||
| 2019-07-16 | Longmont | Colorado | TOTAL CONCRETE SERVICES, INC. | Hand(s) and finger(s) | Entangled in other object or equipment |
| An employee was pulling the pull cord on a generator. The cord jumped and wrapped around his right hand, then retracted and pulled the hand in, causing an abrasion across the hand and an abrasion on the index finger. | |||||
| 2019-05-03 | Longmont | Colorado | Nixcavating, Inc. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was cutting an 18" pipe with a demo saw when the pipe kicked back. The employee was hospitalized with a cut on the chest that required stitches. | |||||
| 2019-04-24 | Longmont | Colorado | Gro Tec II | Thigh(s) | Self-inflicted shooting-unintentional |
| An employee was sitting in a friend's car during break when the employee pulled a gun out of a bag and it discharged into the employee's left thigh. | |||||
| 2019-02-06 | Longmont | Colorado | AdvancED | Measured Progress | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee slipped on an icy exterior sidewalk and fell to the ground, breaking the right hip. | |||||
| 2019-01-22 | Longmont | Colorado | Claremont Foods, LLC | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was mixing batches of food in an industrial food mixer. The mixer blades amputated the employee's right hand at the wrist. | |||||
| 2019-01-09 | Longmont | Colorado | Centerline Power, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee reached into a lathe near the point of operation to adjust a lubricant nozzle. His shirt became entangled on the rotating work piece and the employee was pulled into the lathe. He contacted the rotating chuck and received multiple cuts and lacerations and a loss of consciousness. | |||||
| 2018-09-20 | Longmont | Colorado | LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL INC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate |
| An employee's left middle finger was caught in a door and partially amputated. | |||||
| 2018-07-23 | Longmont | Colorado | Kaak | Multiple body parts | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was installing a bread handling machine. A crane was lifting the steel frame from the bread handler when the cables lifting the frame broke. The frame struck the employee, breaking the employee's pelvis and arm. | |||||
| 2018-06-08 | Longmont | Colorado | HEI Civil, Inc | Leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| An employee was speaking with the skid steer operator when he became trapped between the loading bucket and track of the skid steer causing a left leg fracture. | |||||
| 2018-05-23 | Longmont | Colorado | Walgreens | Knee(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee tripped over a cart and fell to the ground, fracturing his right knee/patella. | |||||
| 2018-03-27 | Longmont | Colorado | M Timm Development, Inc. | Forearm(s) | Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was pulling a hose off a dishwasher. When the hose broke free, the employee's forearm slammed against a piece of glass under the dishwasher, causing a laceration that required sutures. | |||||
| 2018-02-23 | Longmont | Colorado | BLACK ROOFING, INC | Nonclassifiable | Fall through surface or existing opening 16 to 20 feet |
| An employee was climbing up a fixed ladder to a roof hatch. When transitioning from the top of the ladder to the roof, he fell through the hatch about 15-20 feet to the ground. | |||||
| 2017-09-05 | Longmont | Colorado | Mclane Company | Foot (feet) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| An employee was on the ground balancing a truck load when the truck tire ran over and crushed the employee's right foot, causing a partial amputation. | |||||
| 2017-08-07 | Longmont | Colorado | PeopleReady | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was moving equipment and helping to load pipe when his thumb was caught and amputated between a generator and a piece of steel square tubing. | |||||
| 2016-10-05 | Longmont | Colorado | AVEDON ENGINEERING, INC. | Pelvic region | Fall through surface or existing opening 16 to 20 feet |
| An employee was sweeping a roof after conducting roof repair activities when he fell 20 feet through the roof to the ground, suffering shoulder and spinal injuries, pelvic fractures, and a pelvic hemorrhage. | |||||
| 2016-09-11 | Longmont | Colorado | GoodBird Kitchen Longmont | Fingertip(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was prepping food with a chef's knife when his left thumb tip was severed by the blade. | |||||
| 2016-06-25 | Longmont | Colorado | Two Men and a Truck | Brain | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was helping to move a dryer up the ramp into the moving truck when he lost his footing, bumped his head on the ramp, and fell to the ground. He suffered a head injury. | |||||
| 2016-02-23 | Longmont | Colorado | Diablos Construction, Inc. | Knee(s) | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| On February 23, 2016, an employee was trying to access the roof when he fell approximately 11 feet from an extension ladder to the lower roof level. He dislocated his kneecap and required surgery. | |||||
| 2016-01-19 | Longmont | Colorado | Boathouse Framing, Inc. | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was attempting to attach his fall rope to the anchor on the roof. He slipped and fell resulting in cracked vertebrae. | |||||
| 2015-11-23 | Longmont | Colorado | Andersen Sales and Salvage | Multiple body parts | Nonclassifiable |
| An employee was attempting to dump scrap metal from a dumpster into his truck using a robotic arm. He was found disoriented in the cab of his delivery truck with a broken collar bone and concussion. | |||||
| 2015-10-03 | Longmont | Colorado | Jordan Woodworking, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a jointer to make parts for two window sills just prior to glue up. The employee's glove came into contact with the jointer spindle, pulling his left hand in. Three left-hand fingers were amputated. | |||||
| 2015-06-22 | Longmont | Colorado | Circle Graphics, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| A temporary employee suffered a partial amputation of the distal phalanx (fingertip bone) on her right hand. The employee's finger was caught between the metal spindle of a fabric roller and the "pay-out cradle" when she was loading an 87 pound canvas roll into the cutting machine. The cause of the amputation was not related to the fabric cutting mechanism. The amputation was a result of her finger being pinched between the end of the fabric spindle that extends through the shaft of the fabric r | |||||
| 2015-06-07 | Longmont | Colorado | LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL INC | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| The end of a maintenance employee's left thumb was crushed in the pinch point of a belt and pulley while he was manually pulling on the belt to rotate the parts of a locked-out production machine. | |||||