| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-15 | Sheboygan | Wi | Torginol, Inc. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning a paint conveyor belt when they were pulled into the conveyor belt and 20-inch rollers. The employee was hospitalized with 11 broken ribs. | |||||
| 2021-09-16 | Sheboygan | Wi | Kohler Co. | Brain | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was installing a radiator on a generator. A part fell and struck the employee on the head and left shoulder. The employee suffered head trauma. | |||||
| 2021-06-01 | Sheboygan | Wi | Gardner Denver Thomas, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| Two employees were fixing the clamping mechanism on a trim press. The press activated and came down on top of an employee's left thumb and lacerated it. | |||||
| 2021-02-18 | Sheboygan | Wi | Vinton Construction Company | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Slip on vehicle without fall-nontransport |
| An employee was dismounting an excavator after loading it onto a lowboy trailer. The employee slipped, but managed to catch the grab handle to avoid falling. The sudden stop ruptured a cyst in the employee's abdomen. | |||||
| 2020-10-06 | Sheboygan | Wi | Precision Roofing Services Inc | Head and trunk | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| The injured employee was working on the roof of a private residence installing membrane around a chimney. He was untangling his safety line from a co-worker's safety line when he fell approximately 9 feet to the ground below. The injured employee sustained a punctured lung and a brain bleed. | |||||
| 2020-09-30 | Sheboygan Falls | Wi | Curt G Joa, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| The employee was working on a bearing assembly that was in a bench vise. As he was putting pressure on the part with a wrench to tighten it up, the part came out of the vise and started falling to the floor. The employee tried to catch it and pinched the tip of his finger between the falling part and the edge of the work bench resulting in a partial fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2020-09-27 | Sheboygan Falls | Wi | Staff Management Solutions, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| A temporary employee was bagging the forming head on a packaging machine so the machine could be pre-rinsed. The forming head activated, coming into contact with the employee's left hand and partially amputating the middle finger. | |||||
| 2020-09-01 | Sheboygan | Wi | Watry Industries LLC | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was charging an aluminum furnace by adding a solid aluminum ingot into the molten aluminum bath. When the ingot was added, an explosion occurred and the employee sustained burns to multiple parts of the body. | |||||
| 2020-06-12 | Sheboygan | Wisconsin | Scandia Plastics, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was troubleshooting a press. The employee had used a ladder to reach a portion of the press when the press activated and caused a partial amputation to his left middle fingertip. | |||||
| 2020-01-16 | Sheboygan | Wisconsin | Nemak USA, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was working on a running lathe. He was attempting to advance the ring on the well to make it flush with another component. When he attempted to mark the steel with a marker, the long finger of his left hand was caught between the gap in the ring, resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2020-01-09 | Sheboygan | Wisconsin | CSE Construction | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was laying steel columns out for future placement with another employee and a crane. When the crane lifted the column, the material started rotating. The injured employee placed his hand on the column to stabilize it and his right ring finger was pinched between the shackle and the column, amputating the fingertip. | |||||
| 2019-08-19 | Sheboygan | Wisconsin | Watry Industries LLC | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was using a band saw to cut gating off of a part when the employee contacted the saw blade, resulting in an amputation to the right middle fingertip. | |||||
| 2019-07-31 | Sheboygan | Wisconsin | Powers Holdings Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was using a remote-controlled, vehicle-mounted jackhammer to demolish an oven. While the employee was removing debris built up near the hammer, the hammer head crushed his left hand against the floor, injuring his index finger and thumb. | |||||
| 2019-07-10 | Sheboygan | Wisconsin | Watry Industries LLC | Arm(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was moving a piece of aluminum into a furnace. The aluminum fell off the forklift that was transporting it, landed in molten aluminum, and created a splash that caused molten aluminum to burn the employee's arm. | |||||
| 2018-08-02 | Sheboygan Falls | Wisconsin | Johnsonville LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| An employee was inspecting equipment when a sweeper belt/pulley caught her right little finger. Part of the first digit was amputated. | |||||
| 2018-06-18 | Sheboygan | Wisconsin | Old Wisconsin Sausage Company, Inc. | Shoulder(s) and arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning a conveyor when he noticed raw meat on the underside of the conveyor roller. He was attempting to brush the meat off when the conveyor caught his glove and pulled his arm into the conveyor, causing a laceration, torn muscle, and broken bones in the arm and shoulder. The conveyor was not turned off or locked/tagged out at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2018-05-28 | Sheboygan Falls | Wisconsin | Dura-Trel, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a lathe. The lathe caught the employee's glove, amputating the right little finger at the second knuckle. | |||||
| 2018-03-24 | Sheboygan | Wisconsin | ST. NICHOLAS HOSPITAL | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was attempting to unjam a food processor when the blades spun and cut her hand, resulting in a right middle fingertip amputation and an index finger laceration. | |||||
| 2017-08-22 | Sheboygan | Wisconsin | Kenan Advantage Group | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| On 8/22/2017, an employee lost his footing while disconnecting hoses between a tractor and trailer. He fell and struck the ground, suffering fractured ribs, a collapsed lung, and a head contusion, requiring overnight hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-08-17 | Sheboygan | Wisconsin | Plastics Engineering Company | Multiple body parts | Vehicle or machinery fire |
| An employee was working on a mixer when a flash fire occurred. He suffered first degree burns to the left arm, hand, and face and second degree burns on his left arm and other areas. | |||||
| 2017-05-25 | Sheboygan | Wisconsin | Aldag Honold Mechanical Incorporated | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was cutting a metal tube with a band saw. While removing a metal shaving that came off the tube, the employee's right index finger contacted the sawblade and was amputated. | |||||
| 2017-05-04 | Sheboygan | Wisconsin | Nemschoff Chairs Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee and coworker were attempting to replace an exterior panel on a cutting machine when the panel slipped and fell onto the injured employee's left middle finger, amputating the distal portion of the finger. | |||||
| 2017-05-03 | Sheboygan | Wisconsin | Franzen Graphics Inc | Fingertip(s) | Contact with objects and equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was climbing a storage racking system searching for inventory. When he was descending the racking system, a portion of his right ring finger was caught on a pallet due to a ring on his finger. He lost his footing and his right ring fingertip was amputated at the first knuckle. | |||||
| 2017-04-18 | Sheboygan | Wisconsin | Kohler Co. | Hand(s) | Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object |
| An employee was operating an electric pallet jack to move a semi-assembled motor mounted on a frame chassis. The employee was walking backwards with the pallet jack in front when his right thumb was caught between the steering control of the pallet jack and the storage rack resulting in blunt force trauma and a deep tissue laceration. | |||||
| 2017-02-10 | Sheboygan | Wisconsin | Nemak Corporation | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping |
| An employee tripped and fell in the concrete parking lot, fracturing a hip. | |||||
| 2017-02-09 | Sheboygan | Wisconsin | Nemak Corporation | Hand(s) | Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was dumping a tray of water when her right hand struck the side of a machine. She suffered a contusion that required surgery. The machine was unguarded at the time. | |||||
| 2017-01-09 | Sheboygan Falls | Wisconsin | Johnsonville Sausage LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| An employee was dispensing cleaning chemicals when the chemicals spilled on the floor and mixed together. While attempting to clean up the spill, the employee inhaled the fumes and experienced difficulty breathing. | |||||
| 2016-10-18 | Sheboygan | Wisconsin | KS ENERGY SERVICES, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| The employee was attempting to couple a pipe trailer to a hitch on a backhoe and got a finger caught between the coupler on the trailer and the receiver on the backhoe after lifting it to connect the two. The right index finger was amputated. | |||||
| 2016-10-17 | Sheboygan | Wisconsin | Nemak Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was working on a trim cell unit where engine blocks are trimmed out. As he was picking up the block, he was wearing a hot mill style glove. His pinky went into the chain belt and was caught between the backside of the chain belt and the guard. His left pinky finger was amputated. | |||||
| 2016-09-26 | Sheboygan | Wisconsin | APM Holdings, LLC | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee fell off a ladder while running network cable for computers, breaking a tibia and requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2016-08-12 | Sheboygan | Wisconsin | Nemak Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| As an employee was verifying that the air pressure on a die-cast machine was at the correct level, the valve actuated and amputated the employee's third right-hand distal phalange. | |||||
| 2016-02-03 | Sheboygan | Wisconsin | Kohler Co. | Hand(s) | Direct exposure to electricity |
| An employee suffered electrical burns to the right hand while making adjustments inside a generator when it was turned on by another employee. | |||||
| 2016-01-30 | Sheboygan | Wisconsin | Alberici Constructors, Inc. | Brain | Fall or jump curtailed by personal fall arrest system |
| An employee was descending an air enclosure roof when his foot slipped and he fell off the roof. He hit structural steel as he fell, fracturing his upper left arm and left shoulder and suffering brain bleeding. | |||||
| 2016-01-21 | Sheboygan | Wisconsin | Hygienic Fabrics and Filters, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| While an employee was working on a band saw, the saw grabbed the employee's glove and pulled the left hand into a pinch point, amputating the index and middle fingertips. | |||||
| 2016-01-07 | Sheboygan | Wisconsin | Vollrath Company, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee's glove got caught in a metal lathe, amputating the index, middle, ring, and pinky fingers of the right hand. | |||||
| 2015-10-08 | Sheboygan | Wisconsin | VPI | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was cleaning out a knife gate. The equipment was turned off. While using an airline and nozzle to blow out material the airline hit the on/off switch and the gate was activated. The employee's thumb was crushed under the gate and amputated by the machine. | |||||
| 2015-05-25 | Sheboygan | Wisconsin | Randalls | Upper and lower limb(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| On or about May 25, 2015 at 8 pm, an employee received second degree burns on her hand, leg, and foot from hot oil. The employee was dumping a bucket of hot oil when her hand slipped off and the hot oil splashed her. | |||||
| 2015-03-23 | Sheboygan Falls | Wisconsin | Bemis Manufacturing Company | Shoulder(s) and arm(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was placing abrasive material in an injection molding machine to purge the machine. The employee lost his balance and fell off of the machine, injuring his shoulder and forearm. | |||||
| 2015-01-23 | Sheboygan Falls | Wisconsin | Sommer Processing | Nonclassifiable | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
| On January 23, 2015, an employee was injured under a tipped over forklift. | |||||