| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-27 | Siloam Springs | Ar | Bieker Electric, Inc. | Head and trunk | Other fall to lower level |
| At 10:30 a.m. on August 26, 2021, an employee was helping unload material from a flatbed trailer. He was standing on product when he tripped and fell, striking his head on the ground and losing consciousness as well as suffering two broken ribs. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2020-08-16 | Siloam Springs | Ar | Cobb-Vantress Inc. | Forearm(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| An employee was washing the southeast side of a poultry barn with a pressure washer. Water from the pressure wand lacerated her left forearm. | |||||
| 2019-09-22 | Siloam Springs | Arkansas | Gates Corporation | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| A maintenance technician was replacing a hydraulic hose on an extruder. An adjacent hot water hose burst at the connector, spraying him with 200-degree water. He suffered second-degree burns to his right arm, stomach, and right thigh and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-08-25 | Siloam Springs | Arkansas | Simmons Feed Ingredients | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was lifting an auger out of a metal cylindrical screen to clean meat residue off the auger when it slipped from his hand. The fourth finger on his left hand was then pinched between the auger he was lifting and the screen that was resting on the floor, resulting in a distal fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2018-04-04 | Siloam Springs | Arkansas | Simmons Foods, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was gathering samples of frozen chickens that were being conveyed on a product freezer belt to a plastic scrapper when her right index finger was caught in between the scrapper and the conveyor belt, resulting in a fingertip amputation. The nip point between the scrapper and belt was unguarded at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2016-10-18 | Siloam Springs | Arkansas | PIPELIFE JET STREAM INC. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was unjamming a pipe in a grinder machine. As the pipe loosened, the door to the grinder slammed shut on his right ring fingertip, amputating it from the tip to the middle of the fingernail. | |||||
| 2016-09-23 | Siloam Springs | Arkansas | GCC of America | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was greasing the rollers of the concrete mixing truck when his glove was caught in the pinch point of the moving drum and his fingers were crushed. His right fifth digit was amputated at the first knuckle. | |||||
| 2016-06-22 | Siloam Springs | Arkansas | HARNESS ROOFING, INC. | Multiple body parts | Fall through surface or existing opening 16 to 20 feet |
| An employee was removing insulation from the sheetrock ceiling of a roof when he stepped on the sheetrock ceiling and fell 20 feet to the floor below. He suffered a fractured skull, broken ribs, lacerated spleen, broken left wrist, and bruised kidney. | |||||
| 2015-07-15 | Siloam Springs | Arkansas | PIPELIFE JET STREAM INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was placing a piece of pipe on a baler table when the pipe began to roll off the table. The employee tried to catch the rolling pipe and caught his finger between the baler table and the pipe. | |||||
| 2015-04-03 | Siloam Springs | Arkansas | Sager Creek Vegetable Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| A maintenance employee was inspecting equipment with an equipment consultant. The employee was pointing at a tray wrapper when the machine started, trapping and amputating the employee's right index finger. | |||||
| 2015-01-27 | Siloam Springs | Arkansas | 1st Employment Staffing | Ankle(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was moving a mold with a crane in the research development pilot cell. While the mold was being transported, the end effectors holding the mold became disengaged, allowing the mold to fall approximately 3 to 4 feet to the floor. The mold struck and crushed both of an employee's ankles. | |||||
| 2015-01-12 | Siloam Springs | Arkansas | Sager Creek Vegetable Company | Pelvis | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
| An employee working at the crate loader was struck by a forklift that was backing up. The employee sustained serious injuries and was hospitalized at the Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas, for treatment of a fractured pelvis. | |||||