Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-11-01 | Scottsbluff | Ne | R & C Welding Fab Trucking and Crane Service, Inc. | Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was signaling to a forklift operator on a flat car unloading steel beams. The load shifted on the car and the employee fell off the car, resulting in neck vertebrae fractures. | |||||
2020-09-17 | Scottsbluff | Ne | Beeline Service | Nonclassifiable | Fire |
An employee was preparing to change an oil plug when a fire occurred and the employee was burned. | |||||
2019-05-13 | Scottsbluff | Nebraska | ANDERSON AND SHAW CONSTRUCTION INC | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment |
An employee was starting to do work on a mobile scaffold when the scaffold fell over. The employee fell on a bench, suffering broken ribs and a collapsed lung. | |||||
2019-02-18 | Scottsbluff | Nebraska | Thompson Glass | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level |
An employee fell off a roof at a job site, suffering head, back, and foot injuries. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2018-02-28 | Scottsbluff | Nebraska | Sunshine Holdings, LLC | Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) | Struck, caught, or crushed in other collapsing structure or equipment |
Employees had cut out the concrete slab foundation inside a building that was being remodeled and were placing a sewer line in a 2' deep trench. The injured employee was walking towards the exit when the roof of the structure collapsed, striking and injuring the employee. The employee was hospitalized for treatment of a fractured collar bone and a sprained knee. | |||||
2018-02-23 | Scottsbluff | Nebraska | Ideal Laundry & Cleaners | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was cleaning around a folding machine and lost his balance. As he went to catch himself he grabbed the safety bar. His hand slipped and went into the roller on the machine and was crushed. | |||||
2018-02-15 | Scottsbluff | Nebraska | Western Sugar Cooperative | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee was training another employee to take a water meter reading in the UV building. The employee stepped backwards to allow the trainee to get closer to visually read the meter and tripped over a 1" air line that had a 3/8" air hose attached. The employee fell to ground fracturing the right hip. | |||||
2017-01-06 | Scottsbluff | Nebraska | Rocky Mountain Specialty Services | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was cleaning out a heat exchanger when hot material blew back and burned 50 percent of the employee's body. | |||||
2016-08-03 | Scottsbluff | Nebraska | Western Sugar Cooperative | Multiple head locations | Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet |
While working on a piece of equipment, an employee fell through a second-story hole in the floor to the concrete below, suffering a skull/facial fracture. | |||||
2015-09-29 | Scottsbluff | Nebraska | Panhandle Coop Assn | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
While operating a food slicer to cut cucumbers in the grocery store, an employee amputated the tip of his right middle finger. | |||||
2015-01-28 | Scottsbluff | Nebraska | NE COLORADO CELLULAR, INC. | Nonclassifiable | Nonclassifiable |
Two workers who were installing a cable ladder were injured when a 15 ft. tower section was blown over; it tipped over in high winds and high wind gusts. |