| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-04-25 | Pontotoc | Mississippi | Walmart Supercenter 164 | Leg(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was moving a tote when she tripped on a dolly and fell, breaking her left leg and requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2020-02-05 | Pontotoc | Mississippi | MS Nonwovens Inc. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning a machine's feed rollers when his left hand became stuck and injured in the rollers. | |||||
| 2019-01-19 | Pontotoc | Mississippi | Pontotoc Electric Power Association | Ankle(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was driving a wedge into a tree that was being felled. The wind blew the tree down in the opposite direction from the one intended; part of the tree struck the employee, causing a broken left ankle. | |||||
| 2018-06-14 | Pontotoc | Mississippi | American Furniture | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was using a two-wheeled dolly to move furniture. He grabbed banding on the product to help lift it onto the dolly when the banding broke, causing him to fall backwards and injure his left thigh. | |||||
| 2018-02-10 | Pontotoc | Mississippi | Pontotoc Spring | Jaw, chin | Contact with objects and equipment |
| An employee was repairing the broken bucket of a conveyor when the machine moved, lacerating the employee's head and fracturing his jaw. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2016-09-21 | Pontotoc | Mississippi | Fibrix | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee's right thumb was caught in a chain and sprocket while removing fiber from an idler, amputating the thumb tip at the nail. The idler was not locked/tagged out at the time. | |||||
| 2015-11-18 | Pontotoc | Mississippi | MW Industries INC | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| The employee was operating a coiler when he noticed a pin/shaft was coming out of the machine. The employee stopped the machine and knocked the pin/shaft back into place with a hammer. The metal pin/shaft shattered and a piece of metal lodged in the employee's stomach. | |||||
| 2015-11-16 | Pontotoc | Mississippi | Encore Furniture | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was cutting wood tack strips with a band saw and suffered a partial amputation of the left index finger. | |||||
| 2015-10-15 | Pontotoc | Mississippi | Pepsi Beverage Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was lowering the gate on a baler when the fifth digit on her left hand got crushed, requiring hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
| 2015-09-14 | Pontotoc | Mississippi | Southern Motion, Inc. | Thigh(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| Two employees had just finished installing a replacement spindle motor for a CNC machine. The employees started the motor up. As it was coming up to speed, the bottom flange that holds the motor failed and fragments flew through the air striking both employees on their right legs. | |||||