| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-01-22 | Pisgah | Alabama | Polymer Industries, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was using a power drill to clean the barrel of an extrusion line when the employee's glove became entangled in the drill. As a result, the employee's left pinky finger was amputated. | |||||
| 2017-04-20 | Pisgah | Alabama | NYTEF GROUP INC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was attempting to free an approximately 1/8" piece of plastic material lodged in a saw blade channel. He was wearing gloves and using his left middle finger to quickly sweep the material away when the running saw blade caught the glove and pulled his left middle finger into the blade, amputating it between the distal and middle joint. | |||||
| 2016-03-08 | Pisgah Forest | North Caroli | Schenck Job Corps | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment 16 to 20 feet |
| At approximately 09:00 a.m., an employee entered the attic area of the building to look for extra ceiling panels. He was making his way through the attic when he came across a surface that appeared to be concrete (this was actually the backside of the sheetrock that served as a ceiling to the area below). When he placed his foot on the surface, the sheetrock collapsed, and he fell from the 18-foot ceiling to the concrete below. He struck an automotive training aid tire with his left wrist as he | |||||