Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-10-18 | Rush Center | Ks | Mid-State Farmers Coop | Pelvis | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
Employees were changing the oil on an RV. While the RV was being lined up, an employee was caught between it and the wall. He suffered a broken pelvis and was hospitalized. | |||||
2021-06-22 | Brush | Co | AWP, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Roadway collision with other vehicle |
An employee was in a traffic attenuator truck protecting the crew who were putting sign covers on the advance warning signs when a vehicle ran into the back of the truck, resulting in injuries that required hospitalization. | |||||
2021-04-28 | Rush Springs | Ok | Oil States Energy Services, LLC | Leg(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
An employee was swapping out sides of a choke manifold during drill out operations when the threaded end of a 10K needle valve parted from the end cap and struck the employee causing a laceration to the right leg. | |||||
2021-04-09 | Brush | Co | Brush Meat Processors | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was tightening a flange on a hot water pipe. The hot water burst out of the pipe and sprayed him, burning his torso, abdomen, and thigh. | |||||
2018-08-14 | Rush | Colorado | Tolin Mechanical Systems Company | Hand(s) and wrist(s) | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
An employee was working on an electrical component of the water pump when the lead contacts sparked. The sparks ignited an unknown gas that was coming from a capped well in the work area. The employee was engulfed in flames and sustained first and second degree burns to both hands and wrists and first degree burns to his face. | |||||
2018-05-21 | Rush Center | Kansas | KBK Industries, LLC. | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was trying to climb up a 6-foot scaffold to paint an 8-foot fiber glass tank. He was using a step stool to step up to the scaffold ladder when it slipped out from underneath him. As he tried to catch himself from falling down, he broke his left ankle and fell about 18 inches to the concrete floor below. He was hospitalized and had surgery. | |||||
2017-07-17 | Rushville | Illinois | Western Grain Marketing, LLC | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
On July 17, 2017, at approximately 9:30 a.m., an employee fell while climbing down from a truck trailer. She suffered a compound fracture to the right ankle and was hospitalized. | |||||
2016-01-19 | Rushville | Nebraska | Cleary Building Inc. | Hip(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
Employees were staging materials. An employee was struck in the back by a column that fell off of the forks of a skid steer resulting in a fractured hip. |