Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-04-19 | Saukville | Wi | Charter Steel Company | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was placing elbow spacers between 4-inch by 4-inch, 40-foot-long billets. The tips of the employee's left pinky and ring fingers were crushed between an elbow and a billet, causing fingertip amputations. | |||||
2017-08-11 | Saukville | Wisconsin | VCA Saukville Animal Hospital | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Other animal bites, nonvenomous |
An employee was attempting to put a gauze muzzle on a dog when the dog bit and lacerated the employee's right thumb, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2017-01-30 | Saukville | Wisconsin | Raybar, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was using a wrench to loosen a nut. The wrench slipped resulting in the amputation of the left thumb tip. | |||||
2016-08-05 | Saukville | Wisconsin | Engineered Exhaust Systems / B-T, Inc.. | Leg(s) | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
An employee was operating a forklift when the forklift tipped over. The employee's leg was crushed under the rollover protection cage. The employee was hospitalized with a broken leg and other bodily injuries. | |||||
2016-02-06 | Saukville | Wisconsin | Charter Steel Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was hammering a lifting rod and hit a finger while swinging the hammer causing a laceration and fracture of the left index finger. | |||||
2015-10-01 | Saukville | Wisconsin | Charter Steel Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
On or around October 1, 2015, an employee was attempting to pry up a refractory plate into a bobcat bucket when his right pinky finger became pinned between the pry bar and the furnace wall. His pinky finger was amputated. | |||||
2015-03-26 | Saukville | Wisconsin | Standard Machine Company Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
An employee's left ring fingertip was amputated between two metal storage bins when an empty bin fell while being stacked. |