| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-14 | Pocahontas | Ar | PECO FOOD'S POULTRY HATCHERY | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was holding birds that were being vaccinated when the vaccination gun injected his left middle finger. | |||||
| 2021-07-28 | Pocahontas | Ar | Peco Foods, Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| At about 3:10 p.m. on July 28, 2021, an employee inserted a J-shaped hook tool into a leg processor to remove a chicken hind. The machine caught the hook and pulled the employee's hand toward the leg processor's guard. The employee's hand was pinched between the tool and the guard opening, causing an amputation of the little finger above the middle knuckle. | |||||
| 2021-06-26 | Pocahontas | Ar | Osmose Utility Services Inc | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee who had previously been inspecting utility poles experienced heat-related illness and was admitted to the hospital. | |||||
| 2021-06-21 | Pocatello | Id | J. R. SIMPLOT COMPANY | Thigh(s) | Struck by discharged or flying object |
| An employee was operating a dump pedal during water blasting activities when a 3/16-inch flex lance connection failed, resulting in a puncture wound to the employee's right thigh. | |||||
| 2021-06-18 | Pocahontas | Ar | Black River Commodities, LLC | Foot (feet) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning a screw conveyor with a shovel. He slipped into the auger, and the conveyor lacerated the arch of his right foot and broke some bones. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2020-10-14 | Poca | Wv | West Virginia Cashin Recyclables, Inc. | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet |
| An employee fell from a 20' high flat roof, sustaining injuries to the left leg. | |||||
| 2020-03-19 | Pocatello | Idaho | Core Brace | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was cutting plastic when his right thumb came into contact with the blade of a floor-mounted vertical bandsaw. The thumb tip was amputated. | |||||
| 2019-09-24 | Pocahontas | Illinois | Ontrac Inc | Multiple lower extremities locations | Other fall to lower level |
| While repairing a roof, an employee fell from the roof and suffered a shattered heel, a broken ankle, and a hairline fracture to the knee. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-08-22 | Poca | West Virgini | Orkin | BODY SYSTEMS | Bites and stings |
| An employee was performing pest control services at a customer's home when the employee was bitten on the hand by a snake or spider. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-07-11 | Pocatello | Idaho | Virginia Transformer Corp. | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was standing on an A-frame ladder. While transitioning from the ladder to the top of a transformer unit he slipped and fell off the ladder. The employee landed on their left hip and the back of the head resulting in a left hip fracture requiring surgery, and a laceration to the back of the head requiring staples and stitches. | |||||
| 2019-06-12 | Pocatello | Idaho | SME Steel Contractors, Inc* | Thigh(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was using a 9" grinder on a skid when the grinder slipped off the skid and slashed the inside of the employee's left upper leg. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery. | |||||
| 2019-05-23 | Pocatello | Idaho | Western Recycling | Brain | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
| The forklift an employee was operating rolled and the employee sustained a head injury. | |||||
| 2019-05-13 | Pocatello | Idaho | Western Construction, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was using a scraper to clean debris from an asphalt paver when his safety vest became caught on the paver and he was pulled in toward the auger. He was hospitalized with second and third degree burns from the mid-torso to the armpit. The paver was running at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2019-05-03 | Pocatello | Idaho | McNabb Grain, Inc. | Leg(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| A grain elevator operator was shoveling wheat toward the auger when he caught his boot/pant leg on the auger and was pulled in, resulting in amputation of his left leg. | |||||
| 2019-02-18 | Pocahontas | Arkansas | BLACK RIVER COMMODITIES LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by object or equipment rolling freely |
| An employee unhooked a grain wagon from a pickup truck. The wagon began to roll, and the employee's right ring and middle fingers were caught between the concrete ground and a piece of wood being used to stop the wagon from rolling. The employee underwent a revision amputation. | |||||
| 2019-01-17 | Pocatello | Idaho | Amys Kitchen Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was emptying basil from a blender and amputated their right middle finger. A guard was in place at the time. | |||||
| 2018-09-15 | Pocahontas | Arkansas | Peco Foods | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a core bag machine when he attempted to straighten a bag and his left ring finger became tangled in the bag material, causing an amputation to the left ring finger. | |||||
| 2018-05-14 | Pocatello | Idaho | Track Utilities, LLC | Leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in work zone |
| An employee was walking with a mini-excavator that was carrying a sewer vault in a marked construction zone on a public roadway. A privately owned vehicle sped through the zone, causing the employee to step sideways into the path of the mini-excavator. The mini-excavator then struck and broke his leg. | |||||
| 2018-03-28 | Pocatello | Idaho | G.I. Trucking Co. | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Overexertion involving outside sources |
| An employee was moving freight when he damaged a disk in his back. | |||||
| 2017-08-04 | Pocatello | Idaho | Virginia Transformer Corporation | Skull | Struck by object or equipment dropped by other person |
| An employee was standing next to two coworkers who were removing a shipping brace from a core and coil when the shipping brace slipped out of a coworker's hand and hit the employee in back of the head. The employee suffered a laceration and skull fracture, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-07-19 | Pocatello | Idaho | J.R. Simplot Company | Multiple body parts | Fall on same level due to tripping |
| An employee was cleaning acid out of a vessel, tripped, and sustained acid burns to the neck and arm. | |||||
| 2017-05-08 | Pocatello | Idaho | Amys Kitchen Inc | Knee(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee fell while descending a staircase, breaking her knee. | |||||
| 2017-01-05 | Pocatello | Idaho | Virginia Transformer Corp | Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) | Fall, slip, trip |
| An employee was assisting a truck driver with a load when he slipped and fell to the ground, breaking his shoulder and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2016-10-19 | Pocahontas | Arkansas | PECO FOOD'S POULTRY HATCHERY | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure through unintentional needlestick or sharp injury |
| An employee was vaccinating a chicken with a wing web inoculator. The bird kicked and the employee poked their left middle finger and side of the left hand. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2016-07-14 | Pocatello | Idaho | SME STEEL CONTRACTORS, INC. | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping |
| An employee tripped and fell, hitting the concrete floor and breaking his hip. | |||||
| 2016-05-26 | Pocatello | Idaho | Safway Services, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| A work crew was wrapping the steep tank with poly to protect it against the weather. To do so, the crew was moving the grating away from the tank so that they could slide the poly down and tie it to the tank. While setting down the end of the grating, the injured employee's left fifth finger became caught between the grating and the I-beam. When he went to pull his finger out, he partially severed the fingertip, which had to be surgically amputated. | |||||
| 2016-01-21 | Pocatello | Idaho | Lowes Home Center LLC | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee slipped on ice during a home delivery and broke his hip. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2015-07-27 | Poca | West Virgini | Manpower of WV, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was working at Tyler Mountain Water facility in Poca, West Virginia. The employee's hand was placed inside a blow mold, and his two middle fingers were squeezed together. The machine was in operation at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2015-06-05 | Pocahontas | Arkansas | Rocio Rivera-Gonzalez | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was working on a baker's scaffold located under some pipes. While accessing the scaffold, he hit his head on a pipe and fell approximately 6 feet. | |||||