| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-05-17 | Seymour | Wi | Performance Pallet Corp. | Forearm(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was performing quality control on an 8-foot stack of pallets while standing on a 4-foot ladder. The employee was using an air hose to blow dust off of the pallets. The air hose was wrapped around the ladder. When the employee tugged on the air hose, they fell off the ladder onto the ground and fractured their forearm. | |||||
| 2020-09-12 | Seymour | Wi | Performance Pallet Corp | Hand(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| An employee was building pallets using a nail gun. He tripped on a board on the floor, and the gun shot a nail through his hand. | |||||
| 2020-06-05 | Seymour | Texas | Run Energy | Head, neck, and trunk | Direct exposure to electricity |
| An employee was walking into a wind tower to check on a restart failure inside the cabinet at the base of the wind turbine. An arc flash caused burns to the employee's chest, neck, and face. | |||||
| 2019-07-24 | Seymour | Wisconsin | Performance Pallet Corp | Hand(s) and arm(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was unjamming boards from a rip saw and contacted the spinning blades. He sustained three lacerations to the left hand and forearm, broken fourth and fifth metacarpal bones in the left hand, and a broken ulna in the left forearm. The machine was unguarded at the time. | |||||
| 2019-07-05 | Seymour | Wisconsin | Performance Pallet Corp. | Knee(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| An employee was building pallets using a nail gun. As he bent down to nail a pallet, the gun fired into his leg, lodging a nail into his knee. | |||||
| 2018-05-29 | Seymour | Missouri | HUTCHENS INDUSTRIES | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a press machine when the employee's left hand entered the point of operation, amputating the middle fingertip. | |||||
| 2017-08-11 | Seymour | Texas | Anthem, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Other animal bites, nonvenomous |
| An employee was attacked and bitten by two dogs while visiting a member's residence. | |||||
| 2017-07-20 | Seymour | Texas | Scales Construction Company | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| On July 20, 2017, an employee began having cramps while working. The employee went home after work and became nauseous and began vomiting. The employee was admitted to the hospital for heat exhaustion. | |||||
| 2017-06-20 | Seymour | Wisconsin | Performance Pallet Corp. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was performing maintenance work on a wood packaging line to fix a portion of plastic that was stuck when his left middle finger was pinched between the machine basket and a metal bar frame, amputating it above the first knuckle. | |||||
| 2016-10-22 | Seymour | Wisconsin | Performance Pallet Corp. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| On a three head saw machine, an employee was using a hand tool/bar to lift a chain that had a jammed buckle. The employee pressed the foot pedal to move the chain and free the buckle. When the pedal was pressed, the chain moved and caused the hand tool/bar to jerk, which pinched and amputated the employee's right-hand index finger between the chain guard and tool. | |||||
| 2016-02-04 | Seymour | Wisconsin | Performance Pallet Corp. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee suffered an amputation injury when a skid kicked back on a band saw causing two boards to fold together pinching his finger. | |||||