Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-11-08 | Poplar Bluff | Mo | MID CONTINENT STEEL AND WIRE INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
An employee was operating a collator when the conveyor belt stopped. While he was checking the conveyor belt, the employee's finger was caught between the belt and the pulley, resulting in the partial amputation of a finger. | |||||
2021-04-22 | Poplar Bluff | Mo | GATES CORPORATION | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was freeing a hose stuck in an in-line extruder. The extruder's saw blade amputated three fingertips on the employee's left hand. | |||||
2020-03-13 | Poplar Bluff | Missouri | BRIGGS & STRATTON INC. | Wrist(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was standing on a 5-gallon bucket when it slipped out from under her. She fell to the concrete floor, suffering wrist fractures. | |||||
2020-01-29 | Poplar Bluff | Missouri | MID CONTINENT STEEL & WIRE, INC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was untwisting nail wire in a nail maker machine and suffered a right thumb amputation. | |||||
2019-05-29 | Poplar Bluff | Missouri | NEWWAVE COMMUNICATIONS | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was descending a ladder, lost his balance and fell 7 feet. The employee sustained a broken orbital bone and fractured vertebrae. | |||||
2018-01-13 | Poplar Bluff | Missouri | Walmart 19 | Nonclassifiable | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee fell in the snowy parking lot on the way to her car, breaking several bones. | |||||
2017-10-11 | Poplar Bluff | Missouri | Brown Construction | Leg(s) | Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet |
An employee was on the second floor of a job site, which had a safety rail system around the perimeter. He was bending over to pick up a piece of wire mesh when he lost his balance and grabbed for the safety rail. One of the uprights then detached, allowing him to fall to the first floor (concrete). He broke his right leg. | |||||
2017-09-11 | Poplar Bluff | Missouri | Briggs & Stratton Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was operating a large dial machine that presses valve seats into an aluminum head when the hydraulic ram did not properly feed a valve seat. He opened the door, activating the interlock, and went to the control panel to place the station in manual mode so he could jog the feeder arm and displace the valve seat to reload another seat. The down side of the selector switch was activated, pinching and amputating his fingertip between the small ram and the valve seat. | |||||
2017-08-18 | Poplar Bluff | Missouri | Mid Continent Steel and Wire, Inc. | Foot (feet) | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee was struck by a load being carried by a forklift. He was knocked down and his foot was pinched by the load, suffering an open wound that required hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
2017-07-27 | Poplar Bluff | Missouri | BRIGGS & STRATTON | Fingertip(s) | Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate |
An employee had his hand in a door when he stumbled. The door closed pinching his finger and crushing the middle fingertip. The employee had the fingertip surgically removed. | |||||
2017-03-26 | Poplar Bluff | Missouri | Mid Continent Steel and Wire, Inc. | Forearm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was operating a plastic strip collator when her right forearm was caught in the orientation wheel, lacerating and fracturing it. The machine was running and unguarded at the time of the incident. | |||||
2016-08-25 | Poplar Bluff | Missouri | UPS | Lumbar region | Overexertion in lifting-single episode |
An employee was lifting a package and suffered a herniated disc in the lower back. | |||||
2016-01-25 | Poplar Bluff | Missouri | BRIGGS & STRATTON | Brain | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was accessing supplies in the tool crib using a three-step rolling ladder when she fell and struck her head on the floor. She was hospitalized on 1/25/2016. | |||||
2016-01-22 | Poplar Bluff | Missouri | MID CONTINENT NAIL CORPORATION | Leg(s) | Entangled in other object or equipment |
While sweeping the floor near a wire un-coiler, an employee became caught in the rotating wire, breaking a leg and requiring hospitalization. |