| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-08-10 | Plumerville | Arkansas | Hixson Lumber Sales | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was unjamming a log stuck in the slab deck. His hand was caught under the log when his coworker restarted the machine. This caused the log to smash his right ring and pinky fingers, leading to a medical amputation of his fingertips. | |||||
| 2016-07-19 | Plumerville | Arkansas | Rains Trucking, Inc. | Multiple pelvic region locations | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area, n.e.c. |
| One of the wheels of a semi-truck was trapped in a hole. The truck's driver asked an on-site employee to hook the truck to a yard dog so they could pull the truck's wheel out of the hole. The on-site employee hooked the truck to the yard dog and then boarded and operated the yard dog. As the yard dog began pulling, the brakes on the yard dog malfunctioned, causing it to move backwards. The driver of the semi-truck was standing between the semi-truck and the yard dog, and was crushed between the | |||||
| 2016-02-27 | Plumerville | Arkansas | Hixson Lumber Sales Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched between two stationary objects |
| An employee was putting metal bands into a trash can when his left index finger was caught between the steel cans, partially amputating the finger at the nail. | |||||
| 2015-06-01 | Plumerville | Arkansas | Hixson Lumber Sales | Hand(s) and finger(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was setting up Planer #2, a wood cutting machine, to cut lumber. He dropped his wrench in the machine, which was running at the time. As he reached in to retrieve his wrench, his hand got caught in the roller and the other moving parts, peeling the skin from his right hand and three middle fingers. | |||||