Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2019-04-01 | Sabetha | Kansas | Schenck Process, LLC | Brain | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
While operating a CNC lathe machine, an employee was caught in the part. The employee suffered head trauma and was hospitalized. | |||||
2018-08-03 | Sabetha | Kansas | Wenger Manufacturing, Inc. | Hip(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee was tightening a lathe chuck when his hand slipped and he fell to the concrete floor, suffering a fractured or dislocated hip. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2018-04-11 | Sabetha | Kansas | LaborMax Staffing | Face | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee became overheated while packaging and experienced facial numbness, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2018-01-18 | Sabetha | Kansas | Wenger Manufacturing, Inc. | Brain | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
An employee was tying cables on top of an industrial dryer that was 15' high when the employee tripped on pipes or wires and fell to the concrete below, suffering brain swelling and broken ribs. | |||||
2017-08-06 | Sabetha | Kansas | Crosswind Petfood | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was clearing jammed product from a guillotine cutter when it contacted his finger, amputating the first digit of his right ring finger. | |||||
2015-07-22 | Sabetha | Kansas | Schenck Process, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee's finger was pinched between a part he was fabricating and the press brake. He lost his right middle fingertip. | |||||
2015-06-04 | Sabetha | Kansas | CROSSWIND PETFOODS, INC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was wearing gloves to handle a hot hose to clean out an auger. The gloves snagged on the auger, amputating the left ring fingertip. |