| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-14 | Massillon | Oh | Lykins Transportation | Nonclassifiable | Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire |
| An air hose had come disconnected from a tire that had just been installed on a truck. An employee put the hose back on the tire, which exploded and injured the employee. | |||||
| 2020-07-14 | Massillon | Ohio | Knoch Coroporation | Multiple trunk locations | Fall through surface or existing opening 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was climbing an extension ladder to access a roof when the ladder kicked out at the bottom. He was 8 to 9 feet above ground level and tried to hold on to the roof line to stop falling. However, the ladder continued to kick out and he fell, sustaining a sprained left ankle and knee, two fractured disks, and a broken tailbone. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2020-03-06 | Massillon | Ohio | Eby-Brown Company | Pelvis | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| On 3/6/2020, an employee was unloading a tractor trailer at a convenience store. While walking up the tractor trailer ramp, he struck his head on the tractor trailer door and fell off the loading ramp. The employee sustained a fractured pelvis and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2020-02-13 | Massillon | Ohio | Kraft Heinz Foods Company | Knee(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was descending a rolling staircase. The employee fell from the staircase to the floor below, suffering a broken right knee. The employee was hospitalized for treatment and surgery. | |||||
| 2020-01-04 | Massillon | Ohio | Menard, Inc. | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was stocking freight on shelves from a ladder when the employee slipped and fell off the ladder, suffering a broken hip and cuts to the arm. | |||||
| 2019-08-13 | Massillon | Ohio | STERILITE OF OHIO, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was on top of a plastic injection molding machine when their hand became caught in the running machine. The employee sustained the amputation of three fingers on the left hand. | |||||
| 2019-05-03 | Massillon | Ohio | Ply Gem - Rocky Mount | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee was repairing a window from the roof. While climbing back into the window from the roof, he slipped and fell approximately 11 feet rom the roof to the ground. He sustained fractures to the hip, femur, ribs, and back. | |||||
| 2018-06-28 | Massillon | Ohio | FRESHMARK INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was troubleshooting the raw bacon packaging machine. The employee's left hand was in the machine when it cycled resulting in amputation of the left index finger to the first knuckle and amputation of the left middle finger to the middle of the finger nail. | |||||
| 2018-03-07 | Massillon | Ohio | OMNI DIE CASTING INC. | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was working at a press when the employee took a ladle coated in molten aluminum and dipped it in water. The ladle then popped/exploded, sending flying molten metal in multiple directions. The metal burned the employee's head, neck, back, and hand. | |||||
| 2018-02-22 | Massillon | Ohio | EB Display Company Inc | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over self |
| An employee was running to his car, stumbled and fell falling to the cement and breaking the right hip. | |||||
| 2018-02-01 | Massillon | Ohio | E-B Wire Works, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was working a punch press and amputated his left index finger to the second knuckle. The press was guarded at the time. | |||||
| 2017-09-27 | Massillon | Ohio | A.R.E Accessories, LLC | Lumbar region | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee fell approximately 15 feet to the ground while performing maintenance on lights, fracturing his L1 vertebra. | |||||
| 2017-08-15 | Massillon | Ohio | Fresh Mark | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was labeling an export product on a skid when the employee tripped over the skid. The skid had a broken slat and the employee's hand fell between the broken slat, causing a seesaw action that partially amputated the employee's right pinky finger. | |||||
| 2017-06-15 | Massillon | Ohio | REPUBLIC STEEL | Fingertip(s) | Struck by object or equipment |
| An employee was repositioning a crane when the boom swung free and crushed the employee's left hand between it and the rack pin, amputating a fingertip. | |||||
| 2017-05-17 | Massillon | Ohio | EB DISPLAY WIRE WORKS | Skull | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was sitting outside on a stack of pallets. There was a 4' X 5' sheet of 1/4" thick plastic leaning against the wall. The wind caught the sheet of plastic and lifted it up into the air. The sheet then came down on the back of employee's head, causing a slight skull fracture. | |||||
| 2017-05-09 | Massillon | Ohio | Fresh Mark Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| On May 9, 2017, an employee was attempting to remove a piece of meat material from a chain drive guard when his left index fingertip was caught and amputated in the chain drive. | |||||
| 2017-05-06 | Massillon | Ohio | Fibercorr Mills | Multiple body parts | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On May 6, 2017, an employee was rethreading a paper roll when the employee's right arm was caught at the rotating paper reel. The employee suffered fractures to the right arm, collarbone, and a few ribs, requiring hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
| 2016-10-20 | Massillon | Ohio | Mercy Health Center | Brain | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was standing on or about the third rung of a ladder working on a light fixture and experienced electrical shock. The employee fell off the ladder landing on his head and shoulder. | |||||
| 2016-10-13 | Massillon | Ohio | FRESHMARK INC. | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning a moving conveyor with a spray hose. The employee stopped the conveyor to access a particular area that needed cleaning. The conveyor started back up and the employee's arm was caught in the conveyor causing a fracture and laceration. | |||||
| 2016-08-22 | Massillon | Ohio | CROWN CORK & SEAL USA, INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was trying to prevent a machine guard from falling onto the product on the machine when his hand was caught in the machine's pulley system, amputating his right middle finger down to the first knuckle. | |||||
| 2016-07-28 | Massillon | Ohio | R.W. Screw Products, Inc. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee suffered a hand fracture and tendon laceration while adjusting a machine and screwing in new screws. The machine was in operation at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2016-07-21 | Massillon | Ohio | Magnetech Industrial Svc Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| Two employees were working on a motor to prepare it to ship to a customer. One employee was lubricating and greasing the bearings while the other employee was manually turning the shaft. The employee turning the shaft got his finger pinched between the v-belt and pulley amputating his right index finger just below the cuticle. | |||||
| 2016-06-06 | Massillon | Ohio | A.R.E. Accessories, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was changing an RTO source fan belt when his tool slipped and his finger contacted the moving belt and/or pulley, partially amputating his finger. | |||||
| 2016-05-23 | Massillon | Ohio | Freshmark Cold Storage | Foot (feet) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| On May 23, 2016, an employee was operating a pallet jack when the employee's right foot was caught between a wall and the pallet jack platform. The employee suffered a right foot fracture. | |||||
| 2016-03-31 | Massillon | Ohio | Americold Logistics | Foot (feet) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was traveling eastbound on Dock #1 when the reach truck he was operating lost power, causing the reach truck to strike a parked pallet jack fracturing the employee's left foot. | |||||
| 2016-02-02 | Massillon | Ohio | Valspar Specialty Coatings | Foot (feet) and ankle(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
| An employee was talking with a powered industrial truck (PIV) operator who was unloading a vehicle. As he walked back to his office, the PIV operator reversed the PIV and hit him, knocking him to the ground and running over and fracturing his left foot/ankle. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2015-12-10 | Massillon | Ohio | Fresh Mark Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| On December 10, 2015, an employee amputated the right index finger between the second and third knuckle while clearing a jam at the bacon bellies paper cutter. | |||||
| 2015-10-15 | Massillon | Ohio | Hilscher Clark Electric | Multiple pelvic region locations | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was descending a staircase. When he reached the landing, he blacked out and fell 10 feet to the concrete floor below, breaking his hip and fracturing his pelvis. | |||||
| 2015-08-12 | Massillon | Ohio | Monovision Machine, LLC | Nonclassifiable | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating an engine lathe and was pulled into the lathe. | |||||
| 2015-07-08 | Massillon | Ohio | Fresh Mark Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| While cleaning the blade on a slicer, an employee's hand slipped and got caught on a heating element. The employee was unable to free his hand from the heating element before the blade rotated, amputating a finger. | |||||
| 2015-06-23 | Massillon | Ohio | Premier Building Solutions, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee received a partial amputation injury to his left middle finger. The employee was helping to pick up a 55 gallon drum that had fallen/tipped off a forklift when the employee's finger became caught between the drum and the forklift, resulting in injury. | |||||
| 2015-04-01 | Massillon | Ohio | GREIF INC | Hand(s) and arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On or about 4/1/2015, at approximately 7:00 p.m., an employee bypassed an interlock device by climbing over a guarding fence and reached into the cushion roller portion of a material handling system. The machinery was not de-energized at the time. The rollers caught/struck the employee's right hand and arm. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2015-02-19 | Massillon | Ohio | Midwestern Industries Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee amputated the left index finger while operating the wire mesh looming equipment. | |||||
| 2015-01-13 | Massillon | Ohio | Service Steel Aerospace Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee amputated the tip of his right index finger while operating a Kaster Vertical Saw in the saw department in the morning on 1/13/15. | |||||