| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-10 | Mentor | Oh | Spang Power Electronics | Hand(s) | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| An employee was testing electric circuit boards using a testing fixture machine and received an electric shock of up to 2000 volts when he contacted live, unguarded electrical parts on the test fixture machine. The employee was hospitalized for burns to both hands and injury to their shoulders and a finger. | |||||
| 2021-03-12 | Mentor | Oh | Lowe's Home Improvement | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee tripped over a chair in a break room, falling and breaking her hip. She was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-02-09 | Mentor | Oh | Guhde Floor Covering, Inc. DBA: Guhde Flooring America | Leg(s) | Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle |
| An employee got out of a vehicle to close the warehouse garage when the vehicle moved and trapped the employee's legs under the front wheel, resulting in two broken legs. | |||||
| 2020-06-26 | Mentor | Ohio | Lincoln Electric | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was using a wire wheel brush on a pedestal grinder to deburr a piece of strut. The wheel caught the employee's glove and pulled in his right hand, causing a degloving injury to the middle, ring, and little fingers. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2020-06-19 | Mentor | Ohio | PAKO Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a CNC bender when the machine closed the tooling clamp on his left index finger. The employee sustained an amputation to the left index finger. | |||||
| 2020-02-20 | Mentor | Ohio | Crescent Metal Products, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was replacing a part in a press brake when the part shifted, catching his right thumb and resulting in a thumb tip amputation. | |||||
| 2020-01-28 | Mentor | Ohio | Heilind Electronics | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was unjamming the a machine when the maintenance operator began to assist in the process. The maintenance operator activated the machine and it cycled while the employee's hand was inside, resulting in the partial amputation of the left thumb and full amputation of the left index finger. | |||||
| 2019-07-10 | Mentor | Ohio | JO-ANN FABRICS | Face | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was completing a transaction at the register when they tripped over the scanner's cord and fell to the floor. The employee sustained fractures to the face. | |||||
| 2019-04-19 | Mentor | Ohio | Arbeit Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was operating a sit-down cleaning machine to clean the shop floors. He used the machine to push a heavy metal cart out of the way and pinched his right thumb between the cart and the machine. The thumb tip was amputated. | |||||
| 2019-03-09 | Mentor | Ohio | THOMARIOS | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee fell about 13 feet from a mezzanine to the concrete ground floor, suffering a broken ankle. | |||||
| 2019-01-23 | Mentor | Ohio | Trailer Component Manufacturing Inc | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| On January 23, 2019, a temporary employee was operating laser cutting equipment. As the employee lifted a part out of the laser nest with a magnetic lift and chain hoist, one of the employee's fingers got stuck between the part and the laser nest. The fingertip was amputated. | |||||
| 2017-07-31 | Mentor | Ohio | Brumall Manufacturing | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was putting a part in the circular saw. The employee's left index finger got caught in the connector hole and the saw came down resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2017-06-17 | Mentor On The Lake | Ohio | Marc Glassman, Inc. | Brain | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was reaching to remove product from the top shelf of a dairy cooler that was malfunctioning. She was stepping onto the front ledge of the cooler for a better reach when she fell approximately 1.5 feet, hitting her head on the ledge or the floor. | |||||
| 2017-06-02 | Mentor | Ohio | Orbis Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was loading product onto a die machine when it amputated three right-hand fingers. | |||||
| 2017-04-19 | Mentor | Ohio | LINCOLN ELECTRIC CO. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was placing a metal stabilizing ring on a cardboard drum when his left pinky finger was pinched between the stabilizing ring and the drum, partially amputating his fingertip. | |||||
| 2017-03-16 | Mentor | Ohio | FedEx Freight Inc | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee stepped out of a tractor, slipped on ice in the parking lot and fell breaking the left ankle. | |||||
| 2016-07-05 | Mentor | Ohio | Accurate Metal Sawing Service Co. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was running a band saw in automatic mode when the clamp closed on his thumb tip as he attempted to grab a part. When he pulled his thumb tip out, the skin and nail were amputated. | |||||
| 2016-05-04 | Mentor | Ohio | Giant Eagle #0196 | Leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area |
| An employee was retrieving shopping carts in the parking lot and was struck by a van resulting in a broken right leg. | |||||
| 2016-02-06 | Mentor | Ohio | TJX Co. | Pelvis | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| A glass shelf was leaning against the employee's leg. The employee lost balance and fell to the floor and some of the glass shelves fell on top of her. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured pelvis and a bruised right leg. | |||||
| 2015-09-10 | Mentor | Ohio | The Wire Shop Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was checking the gauging on an upper die shoe. The upper die shoe slipped/fell off the pins, and the employee turned and hit the cutting edge of the die. The employee sustained a left pointer finger soft tissue amputation. | |||||
| 2015-08-11 | Mentor | Ohio | Big Lots Stores Inc | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee fell approximately 4 feet while descending a 6 foot portable ladder stand. The employee got a leg caught during the fall and fractured it, requiring hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
| 2015-05-20 | Mentor | Ohio | MT Heat Treat, Inc | Multiple body parts | Nonclassifiable |
| An employee was delivering parts when he complained of chest and arm pain. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2015-04-01 | Mentor | Ohio | PCC AIRFOILS, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| On or about 4/1/2015, at approximately 9:30 a.m., a maintenance employee received an amputation injury to his right thumb while operating a lathe. The employee was using an Emory-type cloth to smooth a part in the lathe when his glove got caught on the part, cloth, and/or machine, causing his injury. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2015-03-31 | Mentor | Ohio | Half Priced Books, Records, Magazines, Inc. | Multiple leg locations | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was using a retractable-type box cutter to cut plastic wrap material for a display case/stand. While cutting the plastic wrap, the employee lacerated his left leg and thigh with the box cutter. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2015-03-31 | Mentor | Ohio | Bowling Entertainment Group LLC | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| On or about 3/31/2015, at approximately 9:00 p.m., an employee's left arm got caught in a bowling pin resetting machine. The employee reached into the side of the machine to adjust a pin and the machine cycled. The machine was not de-energized at the time of the incident. The employee sustained soft tissue injuries and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2015-03-17 | Mentor | Ohio | ROBERTS ROOFING CO. | Upper and lower limb(s) | Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet |
| After detaching a portable ladder from a rooftop, an employee fell from a ladder approximately 12 to 18 feet to the ground below. The employee suffered a broken right leg and fractured right elbow. | |||||
| 2015-02-06 | Mentor | Ohio | Polychem Corporation | Leg(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker |
| On or about 2/6/2015, a temporary employee was moving a roll of paper to place it on a corner board machine. The roll of paper fell, striking him in the left leg. As a result of the employee's injury, he was hospitalized for more than 24 hours. | |||||