Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2018-05-18 | Park Hills | Missouri | Hogan Dedicated Services, LLC | Brain | Nonclassifiable |
A driver was found on the ground and may have fallen off of the lift gate that is located on the back of a straight truck. The driver was hospitalized for two blood clots on his brain and three broken ribs. | |||||
2017-07-24 | Park Hills | Missouri | Sportsplay Equipment, Inc. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was cutting metal parts with a punch press when his right hand entered the point of operation and was amputated. | |||||
2017-05-11 | Park Hills | Missouri | Piramal Glass - USA, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
An employee was adjusting a lower deflector trough. As he pulled his hand away and across his body, his right index fingertip was pinched in a baffle. The force of the pinch amputated his fingertip. He was wearing gloves at the time of the incident. | |||||
2015-06-03 | Park Hills | Missouri | LEE MECHANICAL CONTRACTORS INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by object or equipment, n.e.c. |
On 06/03/2015, around 2:00 P.M., an employee was wearing rubber gloves while handling adhesives in the facility. The employee finished handling the adhesives and went to cut metal pipe banding. As the metal banding was cut, it retracted to the floor and bounced up, cutting the employee at the knuckle on the right middle finger. Company-provided leather gloves were not worn at the time of the incident. The employee was later hospitalized for a possible infection and received antibiotics. | |||||
2015-04-11 | Park Hills | Missouri | PIRAMAL GLASS CO. | Whole body | Ignition of clothing from controlled heat source |
On April 11, 2015, at approximately 0930 hours, an employee was unjamming several bottles passing through a coating hood at the hot end of the man conveyor. As the employee pulled the hot bottles towards himself to unstick them, they hit the floor and shattered. The shattered glass made contact with the hem of his pants, causing a flare up that ignited his clothing. He was burned on approximately 80 percent of his body. |