| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-28 | Solon | Oh | Republic Steel Wire Processing LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was unjamming bars in a wire-drawing machine. His left little finger was crushed between two of the bars in the machine, and he suffered an avulsion and amputation to the finger. | |||||
| 2021-08-30 | Solon | Oh | Miles Farmers Market | Leg(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping |
| An employee tripped and fell, suffering a broken leg. | |||||
| 2021-08-21 | Solon | Oh | Solon Specialty Wire | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a wire drawing machine when it partially amputated his right index finger. | |||||
| 2021-07-07 | Solon | Oh | The Davey Tree Expert Company | Leg(s) | Collision between a moving and standing vehicle, nonroadway |
| An employee was operating a stand-up loader and was parallel parking the loader between a parked truck and a chipper tongue. As he was positioning the loader, his left leg was caught between the loader and the parked truck and was fractured. | |||||
| 2021-06-11 | Solon | Oh | NESTLE USA INC. | Head, neck, and trunk | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was performing a clean-in-place process and took pipes apart. The pipes contained pressurized hot water that burned the employee's head, neck, and back. | |||||
| 2021-05-28 | Solon | Oh | ITW Permatex | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was removing a blister from a machine on a manufacturing line. She suffered a partial amputation to her right middle fingertip. | |||||
| 2021-04-28 | Solon | Oh | NESTLE USA INC. | Hip(s) | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee was changing a valve on a mixing kettle when a cleaning chemical leaked from the valve onto the employee's left hip, resulting in a chemical burn. | |||||
| 2021-04-22 | Solon | Oh | SWAGELOK COMPANY | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee slipped on ice between cars in a parking lot, fell to the ground, and suffered a broken femur. | |||||
| 2021-04-21 | Solon | Oh | K&M Tire Warehouse | Ankle(s) | Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, roadway |
| An employee was loading a box truck. The truck began to pull away and the employee fell to the concrete below, hitting the back of his head. He suffered a contusion and laceration to the back of the head, as well as a broken ankle. | |||||
| 2021-02-10 | Solon | Oh | Lineage Logistics Holding LLC | Ankle(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area, n.e.c. |
| An employee was operating a rider pallet jack when it struck a pallet that was protruding from a racking bay. The pallet being carried by the pallet jack then twisted, pinning the ankle of a nearby temporary employee. The injured employee sustained a broken right ankle. | |||||
| 2021-01-10 | Solon | Oh | Nestle USA, Inc. | Eye(s) | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee was using a foaming unit to sanitize floors before rinsing. He was investigating a noise from the unit when it sprayed sanitizing solution into his eyes, burning them. | |||||
| 2020-10-08 | Solon | Oh | JWT Holdings Corp. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee working on the patent line was routing wire through the guide wheels and onto the pulling block when he brushed up against a hot wire that was in the vicinity. His fingers were then caught between the wire and the guide wheel resulting in amputation of the right middle and ring fingertips. | |||||
| 2020-07-14 | Solon | Ohio | Davis Automotive Group | Eye(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was pulling a rear sway bar off of a vehicle when a piece of metal came loose and hit him in the eye. He sustained a tear to the iris and cornea of the right eye, requiring hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
| 2020-07-03 | Solon | Ohio | Great Lakes Cold Storage Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c. |
| An employee was using a lift truck to put product away in an aisle. After putting product away in a slot, he backed out into a stack of pallets. The top pallet went into the operator compartment, pinning his leg and breaking his tibia and fibula. When he drove forward to free his leg, he fell out of the lift onto the floor. He was hospitalized, undergoing surgery. | |||||
| 2020-01-29 | Solon | Ohio | Core Mark International | Leg(s) | Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle |
| An employee was moving a pallet of material using a reach truck/powered industrial vehicle when the pallet began falling from the forks. The employee reached out to stop the materials from falling and then dismounted the truck to stop it. The truck continued to move, and his left leg was pinned and crushed between the truck and a nearby railing. | |||||
| 2019-09-05 | Solon | Ohio | GREAT LAKES COLD STORAGE | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee driving a pallet jack entered the rail dock through the overhead door from the expansion dock. He began traveling east on the rail dock and the pallet jack ran into a barrier pole that protects a door on the rail dock. His foot was caught between the pallet jack and the barrier pole. He sustained a crushing injury to the left foot resulting in amputations to the tips of two toes. He was wearing safety toe boots at the time. | |||||
| 2019-04-22 | South Solon | Ohio | Gill Dairy, LLC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was running a tractor with a sand wagon to fill cow beds. He was stepping over the power take off (PTO) of the tractor and his pants became caught on the shaft and pulled the employee into the rotating shaft causing severe contusions to his legs and a broken thumb. | |||||
| 2019-02-21 | Solon | Maine | Kennebec Lumber Company, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was in a flooring mill, clearing a board from a belt. The belt caught his hand, resulting in the amputation of two fingers. | |||||
| 2019-01-16 | Solon | Ohio | TMC Transportation Inc | Foot (feet) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was removing straps from the top of a load of lumber in a truck trailer when the employee slipped on snow/ice and fell to the ground, breaking the left foot. | |||||
| 2019-01-09 | Solon | Ohio | THE ROBBINS COMPANY | Upper arm(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee fell to the ground while walking across a snowy/icy storage yard and sustained an injury to the upper left arm. | |||||
| 2018-07-06 | Solon | Ohio | Royal Appliance Mfg. Co. | Lower leg(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| On July 6, 2018, a temporary employee was scanning skids for order picking. A stand-up picker turned, and its load of double-stacked product pallets fell off its forks. A pallet fell onto the employee's lower left leg and fractured a bone. | |||||
| 2018-06-22 | Solon | Ohio | H & M LANDSCAPING CO., INC. | Lower leg(s) | Contact with objects and equipment, n.e.c. |
| While descending from the back of a work truck, an employee caught their left leg on an attached work light, suffering a laceration to the lower leg. | |||||
| 2018-06-19 | Solon | Ohio | NESTLE FROZEN FOODS | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| While loading a pallet, an employee was struck on the back by a bag of flour that fell from a rack. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-02-15 | Solon | Ohio | Zircoa | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was fabricating a frame. The frame was sitting adjacent to a support column for a boom crane. The frame was struck with the crane boom that caused the frame to fall and strike his hand resulting in a broken index finger on the left hand that required surgery. | |||||
| 2018-01-13 | Solon | Ohio | Nestle Foods Factory - Solon | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| On 01/13/2018, an employee was scanning a pallet in a warehouse when a powered industrial vehicle (PIV) operator struck him, pinching and amputating his finger between the pallet and the PIV. | |||||
| 2017-05-02 | Solon | Ohio | Charter Communications | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level |
| On 5/2/17, an employee slipped/tripped on a sidewalk suffering a broken ankle that required hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-04-22 | Solon | Ohio | GREAT LAKES COLD STORAGE | Brain | Struck against stationary object or equipment |
| On April 22, 2017, an employee was picking product from a pallet on the floor to load onto a pallet jack and struck his head on the racking system. Later that evening, the employee collapsed at home and was hospitalized for a possible concussion. | |||||
| 2017-03-16 | Solon | Ohio | Solon Specialty Wire | Multiple body parts | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was setting up the wire draw machine. The employee was stringing up the machine and using a pulling chain to thread wire through the dies. The employee ran the machine in full run mode and pulled the chain wire off. The employee opened the soap access door to look inside and was struck in the mouth and hand by the chain. The employee was hospitalized for a left middle finger laceration and a busted upper lip. | |||||
| 2017-02-17 | Solon | Ohio | Amresco, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| An employee was weighing out potassium cyanide and walking it to the lab hood. The employee suffered acute potassium cyanide poisoning. A proper respirator was not worn at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2017-02-15 | Solon | Ohio | Superior Beverage Group | Ankle(s) | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment |
| An employee was loading product from a cherry picker onto a rack when the lift malfunctioned and the platform fell to the ground. The employee fell with the platform and fractured an ankle. | |||||
| 2017-01-27 | Solon | Ohio | Amresco, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to other harmful substances |
| An employee was using ammonium hydroxide with water to test a product for lead when he was exposed to potassium cyanide. The employee was hospitalized for cyanide poisoning. | |||||
| 2016-10-10 | Solon | Ohio | Schwebel's Baking Company | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was clearing a jam on the pan washing station conveyor when the employee's left ring finger was caught between two pans, amputating the fingertip. | |||||
| 2016-09-23 | Solon | Ohio | US Xpress Inc. | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| On September 23, 2016, while walking to the restroom, an employee tripped on a guardrail bolt and fell to the ground, fracturing the hip. | |||||
| 2015-12-30 | Solon | Ohio | SCHWEBEL BAKING CO. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was unjamming a rolling piece of equipment. When it became free it smashed his finger between the rolling equipment and another piece of equipment. The employee went to the hospital and 3/4 of the right hand ring fingertip was amputated. | |||||
| 2015-10-12 | Solon | Ohio | Zircoa | Upper arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a mag drill when his sleeve got caught in the drill causing injury to his left forearm. He was working in the maintenance department. | |||||
| 2015-07-07 | Solon | Ohio | Western Reserve Water Systems Inc | Wrist(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was working in a ceiling crawl space installing an air line. While attempting to switch position, he lost his balance and cut his left wrist with a utility knife. Because the knife hit an artery he was kept over-night while surgeons determined whether or not surgery would be needed. | |||||
| 2015-05-25 | Solon | Ohio | BDG Wrap-Tite, Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee climbed on top of a chair to make an adjustment to an extruder (E2). The employee got the middle finger on his right hand caught in rollers causing a partial amputation. | |||||
| 2015-05-20 | Solon | Ohio | U.S. Postal Service | Nonclassifiable | Roadway incident involving motorized land vehicle |
| An employee was operating a U.S. Postal Service vehicle when the employee was involved and injured in a motor vehicle crash. | |||||