Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-11-02 | Pueblo | Co | Hartung Glass Industries, Inc. | Hand(s), except finger(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was working on a glass manufacturing machine. A sensor broke off the machine. As she tried to fix it, the machine backed up onto her right hand and broke one of her knuckle bones. The machine was not locked out at the time. | |||||
2021-10-15 | Pueblo | Co | CF&I Steel, L.P. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was marking pipe. The employee's finger was caught between two pipes, suffering a crushing injury that necessitated a surgical amputation. | |||||
2021-05-21 | Pueblo | Co | Russ Davis Wholesale, Inc. | Knee(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee slipped and fell on a slippery production floor. The employee landed on their right knee, suffering a broken kneecap that required surgery. | |||||
2021-05-08 | Pueblo | Co | Lowes Home Improvement #318 | Leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
The injured employee and a co-worker were loading a cart with corrugated roofing material. The cart tipped over and the merchandise fell, striking and fracturing the injured employee's leg. | |||||
2021-03-19 | Pueblo | Co | Circle K | Leg(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping on uneven surface |
An employee was exiting a car in a parking lot. The employee stepped onto broken pavement and suffered a broken right leg. | |||||
2021-01-06 | Pueblo | Co | Key Structures, LLC | Knee(s) | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
An employee was doing roof work on a manufactured home inside a plant. As he stepped off the roof onto an extended ladder, his foot slipped between the rungs. The ladder gave out and he fell about 13 feet, suffering torn anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments in the right knee and leg (as well as a possible blood clot). He was hospitalized. | |||||
2020-10-20 | Pueblo | Co | Circuitus Energy Solutions | Multiple body parts | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee was readjusting the straps on an eight foot high electrical switchboard that was resting on the liftgate of a delivery van when it fell onto the employee. The employee suffered broken ribs, and a broken left hip and right arm. | |||||
2020-09-09 | Pueblo | Co | Key Structures LLC | Skull | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was working from a scaffold when he lost his balance and fell 10 feet through the guard rail to the ground. He fractured his skull. | |||||
2020-08-17 | Pueblo | Co | Lowes Home Improvement #318 | Ankle(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
A forklift struck the employee spotting it as it backed up, injuring the employee's ankle. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2020-08-06 | Pueblo | Co | A-Affordable Disposal, Inc | Brain | Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, roadway |
An employee fell off of a moving garbage truck, hitting the ground and sustaining a head injury. | |||||
2020-08-04 | Pueblo | Co | pewag Traction Chain, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was cleaning a sidehook machine. The machine's arm came down and pressed the employee's hand into a recessed area for a mandrel. The hand was crushed and the employee underwent bone reduction surgery to the little finger. | |||||
2020-07-21 | Pueblo | Colorado | AMERICAN PRODUCE | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level |
A driver was delivering groceries from a truck to a store. He slipped on the ramp at the back of the truck and fell to the ground along with the dolly he was using. He suffered a broken right ankle and was hospitalized. | |||||
2020-07-08 | Pueblo | Colorado | Prime Industrial Access | Head | Fall on water vehicle |
Employees were erecting scaffolding inside a vessel. An employee climbed up from near the bottom to the top of the vessel (at ground level). As he was walking up a sloped duct, he lost his balance and fell, sliding about 15 feet down. He suffered a head contusion and an injury to the side. | |||||
2020-04-23 | Pueblo | Colorado | Stone Security | Head and trunk | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
An employee was on a ladder, installing new security cameras on a university building. He fell from the ladder to the ground 15 feet below, striking his head. He was hospitalized, suffering from brain bleeding and lung bleeding. | |||||
2020-02-26 | Pueblo | Colorado | Centura Health | Lower leg(s) | Other jump to lower level |
An employee jumped off a retaining wall and broke her left tibia and fibula. | |||||
2020-02-20 | Pueblo | Colorado | SkyWest Airlines, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee slipped from the steps of a deicer truck and fell to the ground, suffering a broken right tibia and fibula. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2020-02-16 | Pueblo | Colorado | Parkview Medical Center | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee's foot got caught on the computer cord when she stood up from her workstation. The employee fell and was hospitalized for a right ankle injury. | |||||
2020-01-14 | Pueblo | Colorado | EVRAZ ROCKY MOUNTAIN STEEL | Multiple body parts | Ignition of clothing from controlled heat source |
An employee was cleaning parts in a solvent tank when solvent spilled on the employee's clothing. The employee walked by a furnace and the solvent on their clothing caught on fire resulting in burns to the entire lower half of his body. | |||||
2019-09-13 | Pueblo | Colorado | Trane/Ingersoll Rand | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was moving a water box (weighing 160 pounds) and trying to adjust it on a pallet to get it ready for shipping. The injured employee was on the other side of the box trying to move it when her left index finger was caught in between the edge of the water box and the plank on the pallet, resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
2019-07-20 | Pueblo | Colorado | Minnequa Medicenter | Wrist(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee slipped and fell on a wet sidewalk and fractured the left wrist. | |||||
2019-07-16 | Pueblo West | Colorado | KR Swerdfeger Construction | Jaw, chin | Struck by object or equipment |
An employee was repairing a winch cable when it came loose, struck him on the chin, and fractured his jaw. | |||||
2019-05-31 | Pueblo | Colorado | Creative Stone Mfg., Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was filling concrete molds when a cement auger amputated the index and middle fingers from one of his hands. The machine was guarded at the time. | |||||
2019-02-07 | Pueblo | Colorado | Canyon Commercial Construction, Inc. | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was torch-cutting a flatbed railcar when he was showered with sparks and pieces of slag that penetrated his flame-resistant coat, causing severe burns to his left-side abdomen. | |||||
2019-01-03 | Pueblo | Colorado | Evraz Rocky Mountain Steel Mill | Head and trunk | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee was walking across the furnace floor and was passing an I-beam column at the same time that a forklift was in operation. The operator did not see the employee due to the I-beam and hit him with the forklift, injuring his head and chest. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2018-05-09 | Pueblo West | Colorado | Zaremba Enterprises, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle |
An employee was operating a tractor to apply grass seed to a golf course. He then went behind the tractor to the seeder. The tractor rolled backwards and crushed him. | |||||
2018-04-23 | Pueblo | Colorado | Dionisio Metal & Iron, Inc | Elbow(s) and arms(s) | Fire or explosion |
An employee was starting up an aluminum sweat furnace when he received burns on his arm and elbow. | |||||
2018-04-02 | Pueblo | Colorado | Evraz | Brain | Struck by falling object or equipment |
While hooking a chain to a ladle, an employee was struck in the head by a piece of falling slag, suffering a concussion. | |||||
2018-03-24 | Pueblo Depot Activity | Colorado | Pueblo Chemical Depot | BODY SYSTEMS | Fire |
While extinguishing a fire in a warehouse, an employee inhaled smoke and became dehydrated. | |||||
2018-02-28 | Pueblo | Colorado | Cardinal Logistics Management Corp | Lower leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
An employee was unloading a flatbed trailer attached to a semi-truck. The employee was on the load while a PIT operator was trying to adjust the load that had shifted. A steel plate broke from its binding and sliced into the employee's left leg just above the ankle, resulting in hospitalization. | |||||
2018-01-22 | Pueblo | Colorado | Intuform Technologies | Shoulder(s) and arm(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was directing other employees who were installing a cured in-place pipe when hot water splashed from the installation equipment and contacted the employee. He suffered first to second degree burns on his upper body and fractured several fingers when he fell on the ground. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2017-08-20 | Pueblo | Colorado | King Soopers, Inc. #43 | Shoulder(s) and arm(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was walking downstairs, missed a step approximately halfway down the stairs, and fell the rest of the way down, fracturing the right shoulder and right arm. | |||||
2017-07-26 | Pueblo | Colorado | Park View Medical Center | Wrist(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee was walking on a sidewalk when she twisted her ankle and fell toward the sidewalk. She used her left hand to catch herself and broke her left wrist. | |||||
2017-06-13 | Pueblo | Colorado | Evraz NA | Foot (feet) | Fall, slip, trip |
An employee was operating a sleeve machine when he stepped into a pinch point. He then fell backwards into a pallet of sleeves and injured his left foot. | |||||
2017-06-13 | Pueblo | Colorado | Life Care Center | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was hanging privacy drapes in a resident room and was on a two-step ladder. She was descending the ladder when she missed a step and fell to the floor, breaking her right leg. | |||||
2017-05-25 | Pueblo | Colorado | Creative Stone Mfg | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
An employee was exposed to carbon monoxide from a propane forklift inside the building. | |||||
2017-05-18 | Pueblo | Colorado | Dionisio Metal & Iron, Inc. | Upper extremities | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was loading an aluminum, oil-fired furnace (to make aluminum ingots) when a coworker threw a coil-covered shock into the furnace. The shock ruptured and sprayed hot oil onto the employee, resulting in third degree burns to the upper extremities. | |||||
2017-05-05 | Pueblo West | Colorado | Alta Fuel, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was removing side panels from a flatbed truck when the employee's left ring finger was caught between a panel and the truck floor. The employee's finger suffered tendon damage and dislocated joints. | |||||
2017-03-30 | Pueblo | Colorado | CenturyLink | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was on a ladder at the mid-span making a connection between the customer and the telecom line. The employee cut the line and tension that was released from the cut wire caused the employee to fall off the ladder. The employee suffered a collapsed lung. | |||||
2017-03-14 | Pueblo | Colorado | Progress Rail Services Corporation | Foot (feet) | Fall, slip, trip |
An employee was attempting to manually manipulate the leading edge of the rail into a lead out stacker. The stacker was displaced by the leading edge of the rail. The employee slipped and his foot went underneath the lead out stacker. The stacker was then freed of the rail that was displacing it and the stacker fell onto the employee's foot resulting in multiple fractures as well as an open wound on the bottom of the foot that extends from heel to toe. | |||||
2017-03-01 | Pueblo | Colorado | LOAF N JUG | Brain | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee tripped on a rug and fell. The employee was hospitalized for a concussion and left knee injury. | |||||
2016-09-02 | Pueblo | Colorado | Trane/Ingersoll Rand | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was installing a frame on a chiller. The employee was positioning two pieces of angle iron to line up the bolt holes when a piece slipped and caught his finger. The left index fingertip was amputated. | |||||
2016-01-24 | Pueblo | Colorado | Canyon Commercial Construction | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was torch cutting a railcar at a scrap yard when the railcar's cushion unit was punctured. Hydraulic fluid spewed out and caused second degree burns to part of his back and the back of his legs. | |||||
2015-10-28 | Pueblo | Colorado | Babcock & Wilcox Construction Co. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet |
An employee fell approximately 40 feet while working from a suspended scaffold installing tubes inside the Comanche Power Plant Unit #3, suffering broken ribs and a broken left leg. | |||||
2015-08-27 | Pueblo | Colorado | Parkview Medical Center | Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) | Fall on same level due to tripping |
An employee tripped and fell, while walking to her car on a public street. Employee was on work time at the time of the accident. The employee was hospitalized with a broken shoulder. | |||||
2015-08-15 | Pueblo | Colorado | Parkview Medical Center | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Overexertion in lifting-single episode |
An employee suffered a hernia when lifting a bag of linen from a bin. | |||||
2015-07-30 | Pueblo | Colorado | Haddonstone USA Limited | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee's left hand was struck by a mixer blade while he cleaned the concrete mixer. His fingers broke and were badly scraped, requiring surgery. | |||||
2015-06-06 | Pueblo | Colorado | Progress Rail Servicess | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
Employees in the rail welding area were backing up a conveyor to remove an overload caused by too many pieces of curved strands. The injured employee's hand got caught between two sections of rail, amputating some of the flesh on the right ring finger. There was no bone loss. | |||||
2015-05-16 | Pueblo | Colorado | Goodrich/United Technologies Corp. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was using a sling attached to a crane to remove a wheel housing from a dyno tester. His thumb got caught between the sling and wheel housing, amputating his thumb at the distal joint. | |||||
2015-05-01 | Pueblo | Colorado | EVRAZ ROCKY MOUNTAIN STEEL | Nonclassifiable | Fall through surface or existing opening 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was moving a pallet when a swing gate opened causing him to lose balance and fall through the opening approximately 8-9 feet to the ground. | |||||
2015-03-03 | Pueblo | Colorado | O'Neal Manufacturing Services, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
A worker was cutting steel tubing using a band saw. His right index finger was amputated by the blade. | |||||
2015-02-14 | Pueblo | Colorado | Evraz Inc. | Foot (feet) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was operating a rail saw and drill table when a hydraulic cylinder became detached from a push bar and the machine jammed. While attempting to unjam the machine, he placed his right foot between the end of the cylinder and the jammed push bar. The hydraulic ram then actuated and punctured his right foot. |