Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-02-01 | Prescott | Arkansas | FIRESTONE BUILDING PRODUCTS CO. | Brain | Fall on same level |
An employee was folding a 45' W by 100' L rubber sheet when she fell backwards, striking her head on the concrete ground and suffering a brain bleed. | |||||
2019-07-26 | Prescott | Arizona | U.S. Forest Service | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was on a plane returning from fighting a forest fire in Arizona when the employee became ill due to heat and dehydration. The employee was hospitalized with a muscle injury. | |||||
2019-06-13 | Prescott | Arkansas | Peterson Concrete Tank Co | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Pedestrian vehicular incident, n.e.c. |
Employees were installing a precast concrete barrier wall. An 18-wheeler drifted over and struck a piece of equipment that was being used to set a section of the wall. This knocked the wall section loose, and it crushed two of an employee's toes. The toes were medically amputated. | |||||
2017-07-06 | Prescott | Kansas | Custom Alloy | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was using a skid-steer to scoop and dump scrap aluminum into a rotary furnace when the hot metal was blown onto his right arm and back, causing burns. | |||||
2017-03-08 | Prescott | Wisconsin | GENERAL PLASTIC EXTRUSIONS, INC. | Arm(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
On March 8, 2017, a temporary employee was changing a roll of plastic on a machine when an arm was caught in a roller and fractured in two places. | |||||
2016-06-22 | Prescott | Kansas | Custom Alloy Sales 34P LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee suffered from heat exhaustion while taking metal products off the belt or table, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2016-02-18 | Prescott | Kansas | Custom Alloy Sales 34P LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Indirect exposure to electricity |
While walking on stairs, an employee was electric shocked on his left side by the handrail. The stairs were located near where the ingots come off the line. | |||||
2016-02-09 | Prescott | Kansas | Custom Alloy 34P LLC | Arm(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
On Tuesday, 02/09/16, an employee was operating a skid steer to push a hot slab when he got stuck. When a coworker tried to push him out, the employee's right arm was burned by the hot slab, eventually requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2015-09-05 | Prescott | Arkansas | Firestone Building Products | Head | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
On September 5, 2015, an employee was operating a wind-up machine when the light curtain failed. The overhead press roll activated and came down on the employee's head. The employee sustained a severe head contusion and laceration. |