Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-01-20 | Shannon | Ms | Raybern Foods, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was transporting a rack of meat (weighing 900 to 1,300 pounds) on a cooler. He slipped on an incline, and the meat rack crushed his left hand against a concrete pole. His ring and little fingers were amputated. | |||||
2019-03-27 | Shannon | Mississippi | South Atlantic, LLC | Multiple body parts | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment |
An employee was in an elevated scissor lift, repairing vertical struts on the outside of a building. The scissor lift was elevated over an overhead crane; the crane moved and struck the scissor lift, knocking it over. The employee suffered a broken ankle and a lumbar fracture. | |||||
2018-05-01 | Shannon | Mississippi | Martinrea Automotive Structures (usa), Inc. | Multiple face locations | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was performing a die setup. He was unbolting the die and stepping down from a step stool when he lost his balance. He reached up and grabbed the feed bar and it fell on top of him. He suffered a broken nose, broken facial bones, and bone fragments in the eye. | |||||
2018-03-05 | Shannon | Illinois | Stephenson Service Company | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was using a forklift and a crate to raise himself to dismantle a grain drying system when the crate became unstable and he fell approximately 10 feet to the ground. He fractured his leg and three vertebrae, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2017-09-09 | Shannon | Mississippi | South Atlantic Galvanizing | Head and trunk | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee was struck by a 1,000-pound steel truss that fell off of a parked forklift, suffering jaw, pelvic, back, and rib fractures and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2017-04-27 | Shannon | Mississippi | Martinrea Automotive Structures (USA), Inc. | Upper arm(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping on uneven surface |
An employee was installing tips on a robotic welder when the employee tripped on a cover for hoses and cables that was mounted on the floor and fell, striking the door of a welding cage. The employee suffered a fracture to the right humerus. | |||||
2015-09-01 | Shannon | Illinois | Eastland Feed and Grain, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
On September 1, 2015, an employee parked his semi truck in the shop on the cement floor for servicing. He was going to lift the truck onto jack stands by first lifting it with the jack lift. While lifting the truck, the employee got down to the floor level to look beneath it. The handle of the jack lift fell, striking his left-hand little finger against the floor and resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
2015-06-19 | Castle Shannon | Pennsylvania | M. O'Herron Company | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee's left index fingertip was amputated when it got pinched between a road plate while rigging the plate to a backhoe bucket with a lift chain. |