| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-03 | Racine | Wi | Mount Pleasant Pediatrics-Children's Wisconsin | Hip(s) | Fall on same level while climbing stairs, steps, or curbs |
| An employee fell while walking up steps as she was walking into work, resulting in a hip injury. | |||||
| 2021-10-25 | Racine | Wi | R & B GRINDING CO., INC. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| A temporary employee was operating an automatic screw machine and dropped an air gun. When the employee attempted to retrieve the air gun, the machine cycled and contacted their right hand, resulting in a cut and a bone injury that required surgery. | |||||
| 2021-01-03 | Racine | Wi | Premier Aluminum, LLC | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| The injured employee was helping a forklift operator weigh and load scrap aluminum into a shipping container. The employee was caught between the forklift's hopper and a shelf mounted to a cinderblock wall and hospitalized for a broken pelvis and a lacerated spleen, colon and liver. | |||||
| 2020-03-14 | Racine | Wisconsin | O & H Danish Bakery | Fingertip(s) | Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was cleaning a meat slicer. She lowered the slicing basket and went to scrub the upside face of the blade using a sanitized cloth. She extended her hand further out and her right ring finger ran across the blade resulting in amputation of the fingertip. | |||||
| 2019-09-03 | Racine | Wisconsin | Summit Packaging Systems, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was operating a stand-up forklift, delivering a gaylord container of scrap metal to a recycling dumpster. The employee's left foot and leg were crushed between the forklift and a bollard that protects a concrete wall. This resulted in amputation of the leg below the knee. | |||||
| 2019-07-20 | Racine | Wisconsin | Premier Aluminum | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| While working in the foundry, an employee became light-headed and nauseated. The employee was hospitalized for dehydration. | |||||
| 2019-07-02 | Racine | Wisconsin | The Bruce Company | Upper and lower limb(s) | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment |
| After inspecting an HVAC unit on a roof, an employee was coming down from the roof on a ladder when the ladder kicked out, causing the employee to fall to the ground. The employee broke both wrists and both ankles. | |||||
| 2019-05-04 | Racine | Wisconsin | Ascension All Saints Hospital | Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was walking into the cooler, slipped and fell. The employee was hospitalized with a bulging disc in her neck. | |||||
| 2019-03-11 | Racine | Wisconsin | Cree, Inc. | Leg(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee slipped on ice in a parking lot and fell to the ground, suffering a broken leg. | |||||
| 2019-02-20 | Racine | Wisconsin | Twin Disc Incorporated | Fingertip(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker |
| An employee was manipulating a finished part by hand by sliding it across the work table when the metal part fell over, catching his right ring finger underneath it and resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2019-02-07 | Racine | Wisconsin | SC Johnson | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| While cleaning a pool cover, an employee slipped and fell twice, suffering a back injury. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-07-19 | Racine | Wisconsin | Jones Lang LaSalle | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was painting a wall using a six-foot step ladder. The employee fell backwards off the ladder when the ladder wobbled and suffered a back injury. | |||||
| 2018-06-04 | Racine | Wisconsin | Payne & Dolan, Inc. | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was walking on the jobsite, tripped over an elevated manhole and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a broken femur. | |||||
| 2018-05-17 | Racine | Wisconsin | Uihlein Electric | Heart | Overexertion in pushing, pulling, or turning-single episode |
| An employee was pulling wire and installing conduit and suffered a heart attack. | |||||
| 2018-03-13 | Racine | Wisconsin | R & B GRINDING CO., INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was assisting with grinding operations and got a hand caught in the grinding wheel resulting in a partial amputation of the left index and middle fingers. | |||||
| 2018-01-03 | Racine | Wisconsin | Twin Disc Incorporated | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was changing a drill bit when the employee's hand was caught in the drill bit. | |||||
| 2017-09-13 | Racine | Wisconsin | Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare - All Saints, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee went to use a recently cleaned restroom and suffered a possible allergic reaction to the cleaning chemical. | |||||
| 2017-04-17 | Racine | Wisconsin | Emerson Electric Co. | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was ascending a ladder affixed to a paint booth to service the spray paint booth when he fell from the ladder to the concrete floor fracturing their left tibia. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-02-14 | Racine | Wisconsin | Hydraulic Fittings, Inc. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was using a screw machine to make pipe fittings when some metal chips jammed the machine. As the employee attempted to clear the chips, the machine crushed the employee's hand. | |||||
| 2016-09-01 | Racine | Wisconsin | Premier Aluminum, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was using a drill press to drill holes into a part. The employee was wearing gloves and the left glove got caught on the drill bit. The rotating drill bit pulled the employee's fingers into the drill causing an amputation of the left ring fingertip. | |||||
| 2016-08-09 | Racine | Wisconsin | Premier Aluminum, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was staging a part on a coordinate measuring machine. The employee put the part onto the fixture. A hole in the casting into which the fixture pin is placed was not big enough. The employee placed the part on its side to deburr the hole out. The employee was repositioning the part onto the fixture when it slipped and crushed his finger between the part and the fixture, amputating his fingertip. The part weighed about 56 pounds. | |||||
| 2016-08-01 | Racine | Wisconsin | Premier Aluminum, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On or about August 1, 2016, an employee's left hand was smashed while setting a die into a tilt pour machine, crushing four fingers. | |||||
| 2016-07-21 | Racine | Wisconsin | Premier Products of Racine, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning the material feeder into a mechanical punch press. The employee's glove got caught in a gear of the feeding machine. The finger was pulled into the gear crushing it. This resulted in the amputation of the right index finger at the first joint | |||||
| 2016-05-21 | Racine | Wisconsin | Cree, Inc. | Foot (feet) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| While operating a standup forklift, an employee struck a concrete wall, crushing her left foot. | |||||
| 2015-11-07 | Racine | Wisconsin | Lightner Trucking RK, LLC | Foot (feet) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by other person |
| Two employees were moving a metal computer-server stand down a steep flight of stairs. The upper employee lost his grip and the item fell and hit the lower employee's foot, breaking bones. | |||||
| 2015-06-05 | Racine | Wisconsin | Pioneer Products, Inc. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee experienced a hand injury on or around 6/5/2015 while operating a CNC machine. The machine conveyors were inadequately guarded at the time. | |||||
| 2015-05-03 | Racine | Wisconsin | Premier Aluminum, LLC | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| The employee was pouring metal (aluminum) from one ladle into another ladle that had been freshly coated with mold paint. When the molten metal hit the wet paint it "popped" and splashed molten metal onto the employee burning the employee's face, arms and body. | |||||
| 2015-03-31 | Racine | Wisconsin | World Wide Box & Packaging Corp. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was manipulating a piece of wood on a conveyor when his finger became caught between the conveyor and the piece of wood, causing a partial finger amputation. | |||||