| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-31 | Ripley | Mississippi | Biltrite Ripley Operations, LLC | Hand(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was repairing a vertical injection press when the bolt broke and the injector unit fell and crushed the employee's right hand. | |||||
| 2018-01-18 | Ripley | Ohio | Ripley Metalworks, Ltd. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was drilling holes in angles and brushed shavings off the drill bit with his hand at which time his glove was caught in the running drill resulting in amputation of the thumb. | |||||
| 2018-01-10 | Ripley | Mississippi | Packswell Technologies, LLC | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was manually pushing trail rubber through the nip point of a calendar machine when his right hand became trapped in the nip point. His right hand and part of his wrist were amputated and he was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-06-29 | Ripley | Mississippi | Biltrite Ripley Operations, LLC | Forearm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was attempting to remove a gasket that was caught between a conveyor belt and pulley when his left forearm was caught and fractured in the conveyor pulley. | |||||
| 2017-03-17 | Ripley | Mississippi | Resourceful Environmental Services, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was unloading a waste receiver box. The employee walked behind the box to check the cable and the box slid off the truck pinning the employee between the box and the wall. The employee was hospitalized for a separated shoulder and a broken rib. | |||||
| 2017-02-09 | Ripley | Mississippi | Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc. | Hip(s) | Fall on same level |
| An employee was preparing to sweep the floor with a push broom when he stepped on the broom, slipped, and fell, fracturing his left hip. | |||||
| 2016-09-23 | Ripley | Mississippi | Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating the T-nut machine. She put a piece of stock in the machine and was going to install a T-nut into the end of the stock. She activated the machine for the T-nut installation, but the T-nut did not go into the stock properly. As she attempted to remove the T-nut from between the stock and the ram, her hand hit the limit switch. The ram then plunged forward, pinching her right middle finger between the ram and stock. Her fingertip was amputated. The guard was in place at th | |||||
| 2015-11-25 | Ripley | Mississippi | Ecowater Systems, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
| An employee's left ring finger was partially amputated while she was removing a valve from a manual valve tester. | |||||
| 2015-10-22 | Ripley | Mississippi | Security Plus, Inc. | Leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area |
| A security guard at the guard shack was struck by a car and suffered a broken leg and a knee injury. | |||||
| 2015-03-11 | Ripley | Mississippi | Elite Elastomers, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| An employee was putting raw material into a rubber mixer. The shaft on the ram broke, causing the ram to drop down and crush two fingers on the right hand. | |||||