Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-02-15 | Pierre | Sd | Envirotech Waste Services | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee's left thumb tip was amputated when the lid of a compactor closed on the finger. | |||||
2020-09-10 | Pierre | Sd | Swingen Construction Company | Lower leg(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee was directing crane operations. Other employees were welding an H-beam together for the ring beam. The apparatus used to twist the 30-foot H-beam failed and the beam fell off the fixture onto the employee's right leg. The leg was crushed below the knee resulting in a surgical amputation. | |||||
2019-06-05 | Pierre | South Dakota | Walmart Supercenter 1685 | Fingertip(s) | Struck by rolling object or equipment being pushed by injured worker |
An employee was pushing one cart and pulling another full of merchandise. One cart stopped abruptly in the doorway and the employee's finger was crushed between the two carts resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
2019-05-19 | Pierre | South Dakota | Bentley-Miller Arby's of South Dakota | BODY SYSTEMS | Direct exposure to electricity |
An employee was training another employee on how to clean the shake machine when the shake machine expelled excess cleaning solution onto an electrical outlet. The employee unplugged the shake machine's cord from the outlet and was shocked. | |||||
2017-04-14 | Pierre | South Dakota | JES Farms Partnership | Fingertip(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was using a 25-pound wrench to tighten disc gang nuts when his hand slipped off the wrench and his right ring fingertip was crushed and dislocated. |