| 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. | |||||
| 2021-06-18 | 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. | |||||
| 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. | |||||
| 2019-02-18 | 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. | |||||
| 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. | |||||
| 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. | |||||
| 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. | |||||