| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-07-08 | Parsons | Kansas | CST Industries, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was placing parts onto a sawhorse with a crane. The parts started rocking; his finger was caught between them and the sawhorse, and the fingertip was amputated. He was hospitalized, undergoing surgery. | |||||
| 2020-02-28 | Parsons | Kansas | Wilbert Funeral Services, Inc | Lower leg(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker |
| An employee was using a hand truck to move a large compression testing machine. The shipping weight of the item was 975 lbs. The load was top heavy and when the employee tipped it back it fell and struck his lower left leg causing a fracture near the ankle. | |||||
| 2018-05-10 | Parsons | Kansas | Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was on the loading dock, loading a trailer. He climbed onto the trailer-door track-guard at the rear of the trailer to reach and strap freight, securing it in the trailer. He slipped off the door-track guard and fell into the gap between the trailer and dock, sustaining multiple fractures to his right ankle. | |||||
| 2016-09-06 | Parsons | Kansas | Ruskin Manufacturing | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee's hand was in the cutting area of a cutter machine when a coworker activated the equipment. The cutter cycled and partially amputated the employee's left index fingertip. | |||||
| 2015-12-22 | Parsons | Kansas | GRANDVIEW PRODUCTS CO., INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was dry fitting a door (making sure all of the pieces fit together before gluing and nailing) and clamped her index, middle, and ring fingers in the horizontal clamp. | |||||
| 2015-07-21 | Parsons | Kansas | Neosho Valley Feeders LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was attempting to clear a blockage in a corn flaker. The equipment was shut down and locked out at the time. The employee removed a corn cob from the rollers when residual pressure from the rollers smashed the employee's fingertips, resulting in an amputation of the middle left-hand finger. | |||||
| 2015-06-12 | Parsons | West Virgini | Ohio West Virginia Youth Leadership Association | Pelvis | Fall, slip, trip, n.e.c. |
| An employee sat down on a large rock during a nature hike to take a picture with youth campers. The rock broke away from the ground and the employee slid down the hill with the rock, getting pinned between the rock and hillside. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured pelvis and hip injuries. | |||||
| 2015-01-14 | Parsons | Kansas | CST Industries Inc | Brain | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| Worker operating a small press brake was struck in the neck by the piece that was being bent. The worker passed out, fell over a stool/chair, and struck his head on the concrete floor. He was transported to the local hospital in Parsons where he was treated, and then transported to Via Christi in Wichita where he remains hospitalized. | |||||