Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-05-18 | Mountain Home | Id | B&B Simplot Grain Silos | Multiple body parts | Dust explosion |
An employee was welding when there was a dust flash fire and explosion. The employee was burned on the hand and the upper torso. | |||||
2020-07-21 | Mountain Home | Idaho | Professional Pump Service, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
An employee was removing pipe from the lifting hook when the pipe slipped out of the hook and partially amputated the employee's right middle finger. | |||||
2020-03-08 | Mountain Home | Tennessee | Mountain Home Veteran Medical Center | Head | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee had climbed on a desk to change a clock on the wall. The employee became light-headed and fell to the floor, hitting his head and sustaining a contusion. | |||||
2019-04-28 | Mountain Home | Tennessee | Mountain Home Veteran Medical Center | Knee(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
On April 28, 2019, an employee was walking down a hallway she slipped and fell. Her left kneecap was fractured and she was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-03-25 | Mountain Home | Tennessee | Veterans Administration | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
While walking down a hall, an employee tripped over a box and fell to the concrete floor, breaking her left hip. | |||||
2018-06-29 | Mountain Home | Arkansas | EATON CORPORATION | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
During the start of shift operations, the injured employee was guiding rubber along the bottom of the machine when his thumb contacted the mill knife door located under the roller area. The thumb was fractured. | |||||
2017-09-08 | Mountain Home | Idaho | Owyhee Farming, LLC | Face | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
An employee was repairing a hand line irrigation system when a riser blew and hit him in the face. | |||||
2017-08-28 | Mountain Home | Idaho | USDA Forest Service, Mountain Home Ranger District | Hand(s) | Jack-knifed or overturned, roadway |
An employee was driving a truck to a work station. She was turning a corner when the truck's back wheel went over the bank, rolling the vehicle. When the truck rolled, her left hand went out of the window and was smashed. | |||||
2017-01-20 | Mountain Home A F B | Idaho | AAFES, Mountain Home AFB, ID | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee slipped on black ice while opening the lid of a dumpster. The employee's leg was caught beneath the dumpster, breaking the ankle. | |||||
2016-05-10 | Mountain Home | Arkansas | Baxter Healthcare Corporation | Knee(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee's right knee and left foot were struck by a forklift while she was crossing an aisle way. She suffered a fractured patella. | |||||
2016-03-05 | Mountain Home | Arkansas | WAL-MART STORES, INC. | Arm(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
While coaching and training a cart associate, an employee tripped over a speed bump outside the store and fell on her left arm, fracturing it and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2015-12-31 | Mountain Home | Arkansas | Hobby Lobby Stores Inc | Fingertip(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee lacerated the tip of the left middle finger while using a fillet cutter. | |||||
2015-09-11 | Mountain Home | Tennessee | Department of Veterans Affairs | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against object or equipment, n.e.c. |
On or about 9/11/2015 a Department of Veterans Affairs employee was folding letters and putting them into envelopes and sustained a paper cut on his left thumb. The cut became infected and the employee was admitted to the hospital for treatment. | |||||
2015-05-13 | Mountain Home A F B | Idaho | PAIGE MECHANICAL GROUP, INC. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was helping coworkers lift the side of a large HVAC unit. His right middle fingertip got caught under the HVAC unit as it was being lowered to the ground. | |||||
2015-04-25 | Mountain Home | Arkansas | EATON CORP. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee working in the rework line operated the cat puller to remove rubber from a 0.367-inch hose. The employee's right glove was drawn into the rotating belts of the equipment, causing a fracture to the right thumb. |