Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-11-15 | Rogers | Ar | Morgan Millworks | Multiple body parts | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
On 11/15/2021, at 9:30 AM, an employee was ripping boards on the rip saw when a board splintered and shot splinters into his legs and abdominal area. | |||||
2021-09-29 | Rogers | Ar | Tyson Poultry, Inc. | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was returning to their work area after lunch when they slipped on a piece of chicken on a wet floor and fell, resulting in a right hip contusion. | |||||
2021-08-16 | Rogers | Ar | Preformed Line Products | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was unjamming a forming machine when her fingers contacted the rollers that pull wire through the machine, resulting in a pinched ring finger and injuries to the little finger that required amputation down to the middle phalange. The machine was not guarded at the time of the incident. | |||||
2021-06-17 | Rogers | Ar | PEPPER SOURCE, LTD | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was working on a machine with a ball valve that was leaking. The employee was trying to identify the issue when the valve actuated and amputated his left middle fingertip. | |||||
2021-03-24 | Rogers | Ar | Tyson Poultry, INC | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was performing maintenance on the frame of a forming machine. When the employee closed the slatted frame, his right ring finger was pinched between it and the outside shoe bellows clamp. He suffered a partial amputation to the fingertip. | |||||
2021-03-18 | Rogers | Ar | Technical Machining Services, Inc. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
An employee was coaching another employee on using a stamp machine. The machine was activated while the employee's right hand was in its feeder area. It pressed down on the employee's hand, causing a complete amputation just below the thumb. | |||||
2020-08-19 | Rogers | Ar | GLAD MANUFACTURING COMPANY | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
On 8/19/2020, at 6:20 a.m., an employee was performing routine cleaning on a reclaim pelletizer. While performing this task, the employee attempted to activate the dump valve that stores hot water. Due to an internal defect on the pipe valve, the hot water did not drain out completely. As the employee released the locking collar, the stored water released through the gap, spraying hot water onto the employee. The employee sustained first and second degree thermal burns to the chest and left arm. | |||||
2020-06-30 | Rogers | Arkansas | Nabholz, Inc | Thigh(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was using a ladder to enter a pit to remove rails and install machines. The employee stepped off the ladder approximately 1 foot from the pit floor and tripped over a pit rail, falling to the ground (the rail was not unbolted from the ground at this time and is a fixed part of the pit). The employee was hospitalized with a broken right femur. | |||||
2020-04-16 | Rogers | Arkansas | Tyson Foods, Inc. | Multiple face locations | Intentional injury by other person, n.e.c. |
An employee was sitting in the break room when another employee walked over and threw hot soup into the employee's face. The employee suffered burns to the left and right eyes, left cheek, and right nostril. | |||||
2020-02-12 | Rogersville | Missouri | Mid-AM Metal Forming | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
An employee was using a forklift to empty a dump bin when their left index finger was caught and smashed in a pinch point between the forks and the dump bin resulting in a partial amputation. | |||||
2020-02-07 | Rogers | Arkansas | Technical Machining Services, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was trying to clear a jam from a welding machine. When the jam was cleared, the machine smashed the employee's right middle finger, causing the amputation of the fingertip. | |||||
2020-01-15 | Rogers | Arkansas | HILAND DAIRY FOODS, LLC | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was in the back of a truck taking load bars down when he slipped and fell onto the truck trailer floor, fracturing his left hip. | |||||
2020-01-02 | Rogers | Arkansas | Tyson Poultry, Inc. | Head and neck | Ran off driving surface, nonroadway |
A forklift operator unloading pallets on a semi truck. The truck drove off while the employee was in the back of the trailer; the employee was flung out and suffered trauma to the head and neck. | |||||
2019-09-06 | Rogers | Arkansas | Walmart Supercenter #5260 | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was capping bins while working from a ladder. The employee fell backwards off the ladder and landed on the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a brain bleed. | |||||
2019-07-12 | Rogers | Arkansas | Meek Lumber Yard LLC | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Pedestrian struck by vehicle propelled by another vehicle in nonroadway area |
The injured employee was working in the lumber yard and was standing next to a yard forklift talking with the operator. A truck backed up and struck the yard forklift and the injured employee was pinned between the truck and the forklift. The employee sustained broken ribs. | |||||
2019-01-02 | Rogers | Arkansas | Southeast Poultry Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was attempting to remove an obstruction from a food craft machine chain when the employee's fingers were pulled into the chain, resulting in an amputation of the left index finger to the end of the nailbed and left middle finger to the first knuckle. | |||||
2018-07-19 | Rogers | Arkansas | TRG Rogers, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was cleaning pieces of metal from a catwalk and stairs into an automobile shredder when they began to feel ill and vomited. The employee was hospitalized for heat stress. | |||||
2018-07-12 | Rogersville | Pennsylvania | Cactus Wellhead, LLC | Skull | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
An employee was removing a 2" riser pipe from a casing head with a pipe wrench when backside pressure pushed the riser up and it struck the employee's forehead. He was then covered in drilling mud, which evacuated the well behind the pipe. He suffered a forehead laceration and skull fracture. | |||||
2018-04-26 | Rogers | Arkansas | Ozark Empire Distributors | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was bagging bread at a bagger machine when it became jammed. As she attempted to unjam the machine, another employee activated the machine, which then amputated an eighth of an inch of her left index fingertip. The machine was not locked out at the time of the incident. | |||||
2018-03-04 | Rogers | Arkansas | Ozark Empire Distributors | Lumbar region | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee and his colleagues were relocating a dough extruder with a forklift. While they were placing the extruder on a rolling platform, the extruder tipped and fell on the employee, who suffered a lower back contusion. | |||||
2017-06-09 | Rogersville | Alabama | Custom Synthetic Fibers, LLC | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was splashed by hot plastic while changing screen filters on an extruder machine, suffering second degree burns to the forearms and face. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2017-05-02 | Rogers | Arkansas | Inland Waste Solutions | Scalp | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee fell while getting out of the cab of his refuse truck and hit his head on some rocks. The employee was hospitalized and suffered two lacerations to the back of his head. | |||||
2017-02-17 | Rogers | Texas | D&M Community Grain, LC | Leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was grabbing a sheet of metal off a roof when the bolt that was holding it in place became stuck. When he pulled on the sheet, it slipped and fell on his left leg, cutting it so that it required hospitalization. | |||||
2016-08-17 | Rogers | Arkansas | Crossland Construction Company, Inc. | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level 26 to 30 feet |
An employee was installing guttering at a commercial construction site when he fell approximately 28 feet to the ground. He was hospitalized with a fractured vertebra and required surgery. | |||||
2016-07-25 | Rogersville | Pennsylvania | Benamati Water Services | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
An employee was preparing to load a truck with water when a valve cap blew off the pressurized system and struck him in the abdomen. He was hospitalized with a laceration. | |||||
2016-07-08 | Rogerson | Idaho | JR Simplot Company | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was crushed between hay bales being loaded into a semi-truck trailer, rupturing his small intestine and crushing his pelvis and shoulder. | |||||
2016-03-31 | Rogers | Arkansas | Technical Machining Services, Inc. | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Overexertion in lifting-multiple episodes |
An employee was lifting steel bar stocks 12 feet long and weighing approximately 20lbs to place into a CNC mill machine when he felt a pull across his stomach. The employee was later admitted to the hospital for pain in the stomach. | |||||
2016-02-21 | Rogers | Arkansas | Cabela's Wholesale Inc | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
While descending a ladder, an employee missed the second to the bottom step and fell to the concrete floor. The employee fractured the left side of the hip. | |||||
2016-01-06 | Rogers | Arkansas | Southeast Poultry Inc | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was observing a supervisor during training on the production floor when the employee's left arm got entangled in the conveyer drive shaft. | |||||
2015-09-17 | Rogers | Arkansas | Crossland Construction | Face | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
The employee was cutting a piece of ductile 8" iron pipe with a hot saw or quickie saw. The weight caused the pipe to pinch the blade and the pipe kicked up and struck the employee in the face. | |||||
2015-04-13 | Rogers | Arkansas | The Roark Group Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was climbing a scaffold to check if the graphics applied to a box truck were peeling. The scaffold tipped over, and the employee fell about 7 to 8 feet. | |||||
2015-03-25 | Rogers | Arkansas | Tyson Foods, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet |
An employee was stepping from a walkway with guard rails onto the roof when he stumbled and fell off of the roof edge. The roof was approximately 32-feet high. | |||||
2015-03-20 | Rogers | Arkansas | Enercon Services Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was climbing down an extension ladder and fell after taking approximately three to four steps. Another employee was holding the ladder; he was unable to control the ladder when it shifted. | |||||
2015-02-23 | Rogers | Arkansas | Ozark Empire Distributors | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
Employee's right ring finger was amputated after it came in contact with the blade on a bread divider. During a jam, a photo electric eye is supposed to shut the machine down. The photo electric eye malfunctioned as the employee reached into the machine resulting in the ring finger amputation. |