Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-09-25 | New Albany | Oh | Solutions Staffing - Downtown Branch | Leg(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
A temporary employee was detaching a hose from a tank when 180-degree water splashed out of the pipe, hitting the employee on the legs and resulting in burn injuries. | |||||
2021-07-16 | New Albany | Oh | ACCEL, INC. | Foot (feet) | Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object |
A temporary employee was parking a stand-up forklift. He got off the forklift while it was still moving and the forklift pinned his left foot against a parked forklift. The employee sustained a broken foot requiring hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
2021-02-22 | New Albany | Oh | LGS Staffing | Pelvis | Injury by other person-unintentional or intent unknown, n.e.c. |
A temporary employee was walking toward the exit of a production floor at the end of their shift. As the employee approached the exit, a co-worker walking in front of them stepped to the right, knocking the employee to the ground. The employee suffered a fractured right pelvis. | |||||
2021-02-05 | New Albany | Oh | The Superior Group | Hip(s) and leg(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee was operating a pallet jack in order to lift an electrical panel assembly onto a cart. The load tipped over onto the employee. The employee was hospitalized with left leg and hip injuries. | |||||
2020-05-06 | New Albany | Ohio | Cumberland Farms | Knee(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee walked into the back room and tripped over quick service restaurant equipment, fell, and injured her knee. She was hospitalized and had knee surgery. | |||||
2020-04-07 | New Albany | Mississippi | Walmart Distribution Center #6072 | Hip(s) | Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c. |
An employee was driving down an aisle in a powered industrial truck. The truck hit some racking and a pallet on the rack struck the employee. The employee suffered a broken hip and was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-07-30 | New Albany | Ohio | Amcor Rigid Packaging USA, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
On July 30, 2019, a mold dropped while being put in position, pinching the tip of an employee's little finger against the frame of the machine. The employee suffered an amputation to the finger. | |||||
2019-05-07 | New Albany | Mississippi | Fusion Frames, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was operating a chop saw to cut wood and amputated the right index fingertip while indexing a board. | |||||
2019-02-27 | New Albany | Ohio | State Farm | Lower leg(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee was on a knee cart. Its handle grip came loose as she turned and she fell to the tiled floor, breaking her lower right tibia and fibula. | |||||
2018-05-14 | New Albany | Ohio | New Albany Country Club | Pelvis | Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c. |
An employee was driving a beverage cart around a golf course when a drawer on the cart opened and became caught on a fence, causing the driver to be thrown from the cart and the cart to flip. The beverage cart landed on top of the employee, who suffered two pelvic fractures. | |||||
2018-02-14 | New Albany | Mississippi | Kevin Charles Furniture | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
An employee was checking a vibration on the fiberfill machine when his wedding ring was caught on a shaft resulting in amputation of the employee's left ring finger. | |||||
2017-06-11 | New Albany | Pennsylvania | Extreme Plastics Plus, LLC. | Leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
A skid steer operator detached a spreader bar from the skid steer because the bar would not sit flat on the ground. The injured employee started to push the bar when it fell and struck his leg, breaking it. | |||||
2016-10-06 | New Albany | Ohio | KDC-Tritech Laboratories | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was trying to unjam a turret machine when his right ring finger was caught and partially amputated between the turret wheel and the side of the bowl. | |||||
2016-06-08 | New Albany | Ohio | L Brands DC8 | Ankle(s) | Collision between a moving and standing vehicle, nonroadway |
On or about June 08, 2016, an employee was backing up a standup forklift when he collided with a parked standup forklift. He lacerated his foot/ankle and fractured an ankle bone. | |||||
2015-09-30 | New Albany | Mississippi | Walmart 6075 | Thigh(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee was walking in the warehouse and was hit by a pallet jack breaking their femur bone. | |||||
2015-02-26 | New Albany | Mississippi | Worthington Cylinders | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
Employee reached into the press #78 and his left index finger was severed at the second joint. The press has a pop up release which is activated after the cycle, the employee placed his hand while the pop up release was in operation catching the employee's hand between the part and the top of the press. |