Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-09-26 | Manitowoc | Wi | Kwik Trip Inc | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was working from a step stool to turn shelved products' labels to face forward and check the products' expiration date(s). As the employee stepped down from the stool, the employee's left leg caught the rubber covering the step. The employee's left hip struck the concrete floor in the resulting fall and was broken. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2021-09-21 | Manitowoc | Wi | Michels Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was helping to drive pilings when their finger became pinched between a pile and the pile lead resulting in a partial amputation. | |||||
2021-06-18 | Manitowoc | Wi | Kerry Ingredients | Knee(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
On June 18, 2021, an employee was carrying sample bottles from the fume hood to the work station when they slipped on water on the floor and fell, resulting in a dislocated left knee and shattered left knee cap that required hospitalization. | |||||
2021-06-16 | Manitowoc | Wi | Federal-Mogul Piston Rings, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was setting up a machine when it moved and pinched the employee's left index finger, causing a partial amputation. | |||||
2021-05-22 | Manitowoc | Wi | Kerry Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
Two employees were working to clear a jammed screw conveyor and replace a drive belt. The injured employee's left index finger was crushed in a nip point between the belt and pulley. Approximately one-third of the employee's finger was medically amputated. | |||||
2021-05-07 | Manitowoc | Wi | Skana Aluminum Co | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was helping a maintenance worker install the upper portion of a coil car back into place using a hoist. This part weighs about 1,000 pounds. While seating the upper section onto the mounting bolts, the employees were working to loosen a bolt. The injured employee’s right hand was on an impact wrench and his other hand was on the nut. As it was loosening, the upper portion of the coil unit came loose and caught the injured employee’s hand against the lower portion of the coil block. T | |||||
2021-03-25 | Manitowoc | Wi | Manitowoc Tool & Machining, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was clamping an aluminum part into the chuck of a vertical turning lathe when the foot pedal was engaged causing the hydraulic clamp to close on the employee's left ring finger, amputating the fingertip. | |||||
2021-03-05 | Manitowoc | Wi | Cher-Make Sausage Company | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet |
On March 5, 2021, an employee was engaged in the task of adding backstops to the highest shelf of a storage racking system in the pre-blend department. The employee used an extension ladder to access the highest shelf. The employee attempted to step from the ladder onto the shelf when the bottom of the ladder slid out due to a slippery floor. The employee fell approximately 20 feet to the concrete floor and suffered fractured vertebrae. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2021-02-20 | Manitowoc | Wi | Panda Express #2111 | Nonclassifiable | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was standing near a cook when the cook dropped a spoon into hot oil and the oil splashed onto the employee, resulting in a burn. | |||||
2021-01-11 | Manitowoc | Wi | Backus Electric & Automation | Forearm(s) | Direct exposure to electricity |
An employee was on a ladder, turning on a switch in a 480-volt electrical bus panel. An arc flash from the panel burned the employee's forearms. | |||||
2020-05-22 | Manitowoc | Wisconsin | Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry Co., Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was helping operate a hydraulic mold press. The press engaged, crushing the employee's left index fingertip. The employee suffered an amputation to the finger. | |||||
2020-01-09 | Manitowoc | Wisconsin | MyPath Companies | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
An employee was disposing of psyllium dietary fiber by mixing it with cat litter. The employee began to have difficulty breathing after inhaling the psyllium dust. | |||||
2020-01-06 | Manitowoc | Wisconsin | Broadwind Towers, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was adjusting the orientation of a 300-pound cast metal part while it was on the floor in a sling. The part shifted and pinched the employee's left middle and ring fingers against the sling, causing the amputation of the middle fingertip and an avulsion on the ring finger. | |||||
2019-09-23 | Manitowoc | Wisconsin | KDC One Northern Labs | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
On September 23, 2019, a blow mold assembler suffered a crushing injury to her left middle finger in the nail area, resulting in a partial finger amputation. | |||||
2019-09-09 | Manitowoc | Wisconsin | ECK INDUSTRIES INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was removing an aluminum casting from a basket after the heat treating process. The employee's left hand was caught between the lifting hook and the parts hook resulting in a partial amputation of the left pointer finger. | |||||
2019-07-22 | Manitowoc | Wisconsin | Eck Industries | Leg(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was pouring molten aluminum from a hand ladle when the aluminum spilled and burned his leg. | |||||
2019-07-14 | Manitowoc | Wisconsin | Cher-Make Sausage Company | Knee(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
While checking product temperatures in a smokehouse, an employee got something slippery on his boots and then slipped on the floor outside of the smokehouse. The employee's left kneecap made contact with the floor and was displaced. | |||||
2019-05-01 | Manitowoc | Wisconsin | Kaysun Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was removing a bearing from a bearing loader. The bearing loader cylinder cycled when the extra bearing was removed resulting in a left middle fingertip amputation. | |||||
2019-04-09 | Manitowoc | Wisconsin | KDC One Northern Labs | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
An employee was adjusting a capper. The drive chain and sprocket caught and injured the employee's right hand, causing the amputation of three fingers. | |||||
2018-09-14 | Manitowoc | Wisconsin | Stecker Machine Co, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was cleaning debris out of a machine's door jamb when the door closed on his left middle finger. The tip was amputated. | |||||
2018-08-31 | Manitowoc | Wisconsin | Briess Industries, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee became ill while shoving grain inside a kiln, requiring hospitalization for dehydration. | |||||
2018-04-20 | Manitowoc | Wisconsin | BCM Construction, LLC | Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
Employees were setting trusses on a multi-family apartment building. A truss was leaning against another truss when it tipped over, swung down, and struck an employee in the shoulder. The employee suffered a shoulder fracture, requiring hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
2018-01-25 | Manitowoc | Wisconsin | Almost Family | Brain | Fall, slip, trip |
An employee slipped and fell resulting in a head injury. | |||||
2017-09-26 | Manitowoc | Wisconsin | ECK INDUSTRIES INC | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
On September 26, 2017, an employee was attaching a nitrogen gas regulator to a chlorine gas bottle when the chlorine gas started venting out. He suffered symptoms of hypoxia and respiratory distress. | |||||
2017-08-23 | Manitowoc | Wisconsin | Holiday House of Manitowoc County, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping on uneven surface |
On 8/23/2017, an employee tripped over a small rise in the entrance doorway while walking into the facility, suffering several fractures to the tibia and knee damage. The employee had surgery. | |||||
2017-06-22 | Manitowoc | Wisconsin | Tramontina US Cookware, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee's right index fingertip was pinched and amputated between moving conveyor gears as the employee was applying grease to them. | |||||
2016-10-13 | Manitowoc | Wisconsin | Manitowoc Tool & Machining, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was adjusting a fixture in a hydraulic press and amputated the right index finger behind the nail bed. | |||||
2016-10-12 | Manitowoc | Wisconsin | MANITOWOC TOOL & MACHINING, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee's left ring finger was amputated at the first knuckle on October 12, 2016. While the employee was loading a part on a CNC machine, his hand was caught between the casting and the clamp. The employee was not wearing gloves at the time. | |||||
2016-08-05 | Manitowoc | Wisconsin | LAKESIDE FOODS INC | Multiple face locations | Other fall to lower level |
An employee fell down a stairwell, suffering facial fractures, broken and loosened teeth, shoulder pain, back pain, and buttock pain. She was hospitalized. | |||||
2016-03-31 | Manitowoc | Wisconsin | MANITOWOC CRANES INC | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was disassembling a crane boom and slipped off the boom falling three feet ten inches and fracturing the lower left leg. | |||||
2015-11-30 | Manitowoc | Wisconsin | Alpha Baking Company Inc. | Brain | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was soldering a water pipe while standing on a 6 foot self supporting ladder. The employee fell from the ladder and was hospitalized for bleeding in the brain. | |||||
2015-09-21 | Manitowoc | Wisconsin | Parker Hannifin, Ltd. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was adjusting the wire in a bobbin winder with the guard open. The tip of his left index finger was amputated when the wire tightened. | |||||
2015-09-16 | Manitowoc | Wisconsin | Lakeside Foods, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee operating a forklift caught their right ring finger between lift truck cage support and a stack of pallets causing an amputation. | |||||
2015-06-15 | Manitowoc | Wisconsin | Skana Aluminum Co. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
On or about 6/15/15, an employee's hand got pinched between the forklift roll cage and a spider coil, resulting in a pinky fingertip amputation and severe injury to the ring finger of the right hand. | |||||
2015-03-04 | Manitowoc | Wisconsin | Chicago Plastic Systems, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee fell 6.5 feet from a piece of equipment while installing an exhaust hood. |