Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-10-23 | New Century | Ks | Upfield | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was placing equipment back into service after sanitizing. The employee was sprayed with hot water and sustained second degree burns on the torso, right arm, and upper leg area. | |||||
2019-06-08 | New Century | Kansas | DuPont | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level |
An employee fell from a fixed ladder on scaffolding, landing on the floor on his left side and injuring his left wrist and torso. | |||||
2019-06-06 | New Century | Kansas | STOUSE, LLC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was changing the die on a die cutting press when four fingers were crushed. Two fingers were later surgically amputated. | |||||
2017-08-30 | New Century | Kansas | Unilever Manufacturing (US), Inc. | Upper arm(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee tripped on a rug in front of the locker room and fell to the ground, breaking her left humerus. | |||||
2017-06-27 | New Century | Kansas | CFS West Holdings, Inc. | Hip(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee was feeding boxes into a machine when one of the boxes tore. She was trying to retrieve the torn box from the machine's conveyor when she lost her balance, twisted, and fell to the floor, injuring her left hip and requiring overnight hospitalization. | |||||
2016-10-20 | New Century | Kansas | DE ELLIOTTE COMPANY, INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was cleaning rollers with a rag. The rag got lodged in the roller, pulling in and degloving his right thumb. | |||||
2016-09-08 | New Century | Kansas | CFS West Holdings Inc | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
A temporary employee's hand was caught and mangled in a conveyor roller. | |||||
2016-05-12 | New Century | Kansas | CFS West Holdings Inc | Buttock(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was using a water hose to clean the floors when he slipped backwards and fell onto the leg of a labeler machine, suffering a contusion to the buttock. | |||||
2016-04-26 | New Century | Kansas | O'Neal Flat Rolled Metals Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was working near the slit coil packaging line when his left index finger was caught between the powered conveyor belt and a 4,000- to 6,000-pound roll of steel, amputating the fingertip. | |||||
2016-02-24 | New Century | Kansas | CFS West Holdings Inc | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee was diagnosing an issue with the pallet stacker when the load backrest fell and struck the employee, breaking the right big toe and injuring the second toe. | |||||
2015-09-01 | New Century | Kansas | CFS West Holdings Inc | Forearm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
While attempting to clear a jam in a machine, an employee was struck by the compression cam, injuring her forearm. The machine was not shut down at the time. | |||||
2015-06-22 | New Century | Kansas | Kerry Inc | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee opened the drum and pail kettle to look inside. The cover fell in. The agitator spun the cover around and knocked the employee off the platform resulting in an approximate six foot fall. | |||||
2015-03-05 | New Century | Kansas | Kerry Sweet Ingredients, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
Employee sustained partial amputations of his right-hand index and middle fingers when his hand got caught in a nip point while operating a ball former. |