| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-03 | Mount Pleasant | Tx | Pilgrim's Pride Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was helping move a trough onto a table. The trough fell onto the tip of the employee's right middle finger. The fingertip was medically amputated. | |||||
| 2021-10-01 | Mount Pleasant | Wi | J&A Pohl Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in work zone |
| Two employees were working in a work zone along the side of a road when they were struck by an automobile that drove through the work zone, resulting in broken bones. | |||||
| 2021-08-17 | Mount Pleasant | Wi | Turn-Key Construction | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| A Turn-Key Construction employee was cutting aluminum trim with a saw blade. The trim snagged in the blade, pulling his finger toward it. The blade lacerated his finger to the bone. | |||||
| 2021-02-24 | Mount Pleasant | Wi | Seda North America Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was clearing a paper jam. The employee's thumb was pulled into the machine rollers and crushed, undergoing a partial amputation. | |||||
| 2021-02-05 | Mount Pleasant | Pa | Rochling Machined Plastics | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was cutting material at the chop saw and sustained amputation of his right hand. | |||||
| 2020-10-12 | Mount Pleasant | Tx | Priefert Mfg. | Pelvis | Other fall to lower level |
| While loading tubing product, an employee fell from a tractor-trailer and broke his pelvis. | |||||
| 2020-10-04 | Mount Pleasant | Tx | Pilgrims Pride | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was operating a forklift and struck a bump. His left hand was crushed against the wall. The employee had surgery with an amputation to a finger. | |||||
| 2020-09-18 | Mount Pleasant | Tx | Pilgrims | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was walking to a hand wash area at the end of his shift. At the same time, a contract team member was entering the facility to clean it with a water hose. Part of the hose was dragging on the floor. The employee tripped on the water hose and fell, fracturing his left hip. | |||||
| 2020-06-04 | Mount Pleasant | Texas | Priefert Mfg. | Upper arm(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was monitoring tubing as it exited the run-off table into a bin. A piece of pipe struck him as it was falling into the bin causing a laceration to the right upper arm. | |||||
| 2020-03-11 | Mount Pleasant | Pennsylvania | C-K Composites Co., LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was removing something from the rollers of the glue machine when their right hand was caught in the rotating rollers and the right thumb was crushed. The thumb was amputated to the first knuckle. | |||||
| 2020-02-14 | Mount Pleasant | Texas | Pilgrims Pride Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was switching out the battery on an electric pallet jack using an electric overhead hoist. The employee's finger was caught between the hoist hook and the pallet jack battery resulting in amputation. | |||||
| 2019-07-17 | Mount Pleasant | Texas | Brookshire Grocery Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was using a meat band saw to cut some pork when his hand slipped and went into the saw blade, resulting in a right thumb amputation. | |||||
| 2019-02-05 | Mount Pleasant | Pennsylvania | Asplundh Tree Expert Co. | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was pulling a rope out of a tree and fell backwards onto the ground fracturing his ankle. | |||||
| 2019-01-04 | Mount Pleasant | Texas | Mount Pleasant ALF Operating Company LLC | Hip(s) | Fall while sitting |
| An employee was about to sit on a chair but missed the chair and fell on the floor, fracturing her left hip. | |||||
| 2018-08-20 | Mount Pleasant | Texas | Priefert Manufacturing Company, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was closing a flying cut-off saw door when his hand slipped and his right ring finger was cut in the pinch point created by the closed door. He suffered a partial amputation of his ring finger. | |||||
| 2018-05-15 | Mount Pleasant | Texas | Pilgrim's Pride Corporation | Nonclassifiable | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| A maintenance employee sustained an amputation while cleaning a meat pump. | |||||
| 2018-03-13 | Mount Pleasant | Texas | Priefert Manufacturing Company, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was using a forklift to load a bundle of steel plates onto a trailer that had wood timbers installed on it. He tried to reposition the timber with the forklift and then with his hand. He bumped the forklift controls and his right hand was caught, resulting in a right middle fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2018-02-27 | Mount Pleasant | Michigan | U.S. POSTAL SERVICE | Multiple face locations | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was carrying mark up mail to the CFS station, tripped on the edge of a pallet on the work room floor and fell striking their head and nose on the floor. The employee sustained contusions and bruising to the forehead and nose. | |||||
| 2018-01-22 | Mount Pleasant | South Caroli | Ceres Marine Terminals, Inc. | Leg(s) | Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c. |
| An employee was driving a yard hostler when he crashed into a terminal light post with a concrete base. He fractured his leg and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-01-15 | Mount Pleasant | Texas | Texas Express Surplus Steel | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was using a sheet machine to cut metal sheets when the machine's hammer smashed and amputated his left ring finger. | |||||
| 2018-01-08 | Mount Pleasant | Texas | Best Fender Products, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee powered off a fender forging machine and engaged the pneumatic gauge die holder (cylinder). The cylinder then came up and amputated his finger. | |||||
| 2017-10-12 | Mount Pleasant | South Caroli | SSA Cooper | Hand(s) and finger(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| During loading operations, an employee's right hand was caught between a twist lock on a container and the flatbed of a truck, lacerating the skin between his thumb and index finger and crushing his middle finger. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-07-28 | Mount Pleasant Mills | Pennsylvania | Heister House Millworks, Incorporated | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was backing a forklift into the building. A finger was caught between the forklift and the garage door track resulting in a crushing injury that required amputation of the finger during surgery. | |||||
| 2017-07-17 | Mount Pleasant | Texas | Priefert Manufacturing | Lower leg(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was placing 135-pound panels on the rack of an automated storage system when a panel fell and hit his left leg, breaking it above the ankle. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-07-10 | Mount Pleasant | Texas | Pilgrim's Pride Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was putting a chain back on a conveyor line when the conveyor was activated and amputated two of the employee's fingertips. The equipment was not locked out at the time. | |||||
| 2017-07-09 | Mount Pleasant | South Caroli | SSA Cooper | Leg(s) | Fall on water vehicle |
| An employee tripped on a lashing platform and fractured his right leg. | |||||
| 2017-07-05 | Mount Pleasant | Texas | Priefert Manufacturing | Brain | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was tarping a load of steel on a semi-trailer when he fell 3.5 feet from the trailer to the concrete pavement below, suffering a scalp laceration, skull fracture, and brain hemorrhage. | |||||
| 2017-05-10 | Mount Pleasant | Texas | RoadClipper Enterprises, Inc. | Hand(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was trying to move a trailer off the assembly line with help from coworkers. The trailer slid sideways and fell off its dolly. When the trailer hit the floor, the open tilt deck slammed shut onto the injured employee's left hand, severely lacerating it. | |||||
| 2016-10-20 | Mount Pleasant | Wisconsin | Surf-Prep Inc. | Hand(s) | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| An employee was connecting a temporary 480 Volt AC electrical pigtail cord into an electrical box. This pigtail would supply the plug connection for the 480 Volt AC cord for the floor shot blasting machine. An arc flash occurred burning the employees hands and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2016-09-17 | Mount Pleasant | Texas | Pilgrims Pride | Multiple trunk locations | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| While replacing some broken parts on top of an auger, an employee slipped and fell approximately 59 inches to the concrete below, breaking four vertebrae and two ribs. | |||||
| 2016-06-29 | Mount Pleasant | Texas | Pilgrims Pride Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was performing bagging operations. The employee reached into the machine to retrieve a melting bag and was caught by the heating bar resulting in the amputation of the right index finger. | |||||
| 2016-06-21 | Mount Pleasant | Texas | Priefert Manufacturing | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was monitoring tubing production at the end discharge point when his finger was caught by the discharge gate/table flap, amputating his fingertip. | |||||
| 2016-04-02 | Mount Pleasant | Texas | Pilgrims Pride Corporation | Hand(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee attempted to move an electric pallet jack from the battery room. As he turned the pallet jack, his left thumb was caught between the pallet jack handle and a metal concrete pillar. He suffered a compound fracture his left hand, requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2015-12-29 | Mount Pleasant | Texas | Packer Sanitation Services Inc. LTD | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| An employee was carrying a hose as part of nightly cleaning. The employee was walking backwards and tripped over a power cord. Her finger went into a pipe that leads to a breading pump. The pump was running and severed her right index finger just below the nail. | |||||
| 2015-11-14 | Mount Pleasant | Texas | Nickels Transportation | Skull | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee climbed onto his dump truck to retrieve some information. While descending the ladder, he lost his footing and fell to the ground level below, striking his head. He was hospitalized with a skull fracture. | |||||
| 2015-11-09 | Mount Pleasant | Texas | Priefert Mfg. Co., Inc. | Knee(s) | Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle |
| An employee was moving product with a forklift. When he exited the vehicle, the forklift began to roll. He attempted to re-enter the lift and was struck by the front tire, suffering an open fracture to his left knee. The parking brake was not set at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2015-09-21 | Mount Pleasant | Texas | Priefert Mfg. Co., Inc. | Pelvis | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was conducting a quality audit of livestock gates when the gates came down on him. He was pinned and sustained a pelvis injury, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2015-07-10 | Mount Pleasant | Arkansas | WHITE RIVER PETROLEUM COMPANY INC | Brain | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was walking out of the kitchen area and lost her footing. She fell and hit her head on the kitchen sink. | |||||
| 2015-06-12 | Mount Pleasant | Texas | PILGRIMS PRIDE CORPORATION | Foot (feet) | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area |
| An employee was walking in front of an electric pallet jack. The pallet jack ran over the back of his foot when the employee stopped suddenly. | |||||
| 2015-05-17 | Mount Pleasant | South Caroli | SSA Cooper | Upper and lower limb(s) | Fall through surface or existing opening |
| An employee fell through a hatch on a cargo vessel, breaking the left wrist and left foot and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2015-03-19 | Mount Pleasant | Texas | Pilgrims Pride Corporation | Forearm(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was working on a mechanical arm that accepts or rejects product. He was changing the hose when he lost his balance and fell onto a jagged piece of metal welded to the mechanical equipment. His forearm was cut, causing deep lacerations and severing a tendon. | |||||
| 2015-03-04 | Mount Pleasant | Texas | Pilgrims Pride Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee suffered an amputation of his index fingertip when he tried to unjam the bagging machine. | |||||