| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-23 | Stevens Point | Wi | Worzalla, Inc. | Hand(s) and finger(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was removing a hickey from the back of a web press. The employee's rag was pulled into the press, which in turn pulled in his left fingers between the plate and water form cylinder. The employee suffered amputation of the left thumb and degloving of the left hand. | |||||
| 2020-09-23 | Stevenson | Al | Westrock CP, LLC | Hand(s) | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| Employee 1 was replacing a bucket (480-volt breaker) while Employee 2 was observing from outside the arc flash boundary (36"). Employee 1 completed the work and was closing the door when an arc flash occurred. Employee 2 sustained first degree burns on the forehead and cheek and first and second degree burns to the hand. Employee 2 was hospitalized. Employee 1 was not injured. | |||||
| 2020-05-26 | Stevens Point | Wisconsin | Ortho-Molecular Products Inc | Eye(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was disassembling a cubicle with a screwdriver when the screwdriver slipped and impaled the employee right below the right eye. | |||||
| 2020-05-16 | Stevens Point | Wisconsin | Steel King Industries, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was lowering the upper die on a brake press to bend a steel cart leg (6-8" long) when the upper die came down on the employee's left index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2020-02-22 | Stevenson | Alabama | Westrock CP, LLC | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was feeding paper through a winder. The paper did not transfer from the back of the drum to the roll; the employee was trying to transfer it when the front drum came into contact with her left arm and pulled it into the nip point between the roll and the drum. The arm was bruised. | |||||
| 2019-07-17 | Stevens Point | Wisconsin | American Asphalt of Wisconsin, A Division of Mathy Construction | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| After working from 6 AM to 7 PM as a flagger for an asphalt crew, coordinating traffic around an area that was being repaved, the employee became ill and required hospitalization for dehydration. | |||||
| 2019-06-12 | Stevens Point | Wisconsin | Worzalla Publishing Co. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning a press. The employee's right ring fingertip was caught and amputated in a pinch point. | |||||
| 2019-05-24 | Stevens | Pennsylvania | John F. Martin & Sons, LLC | Hip(s) | Struck by rolling object or equipment being pushed by injured worker |
| An employee was moving a cart of scrapple when the wheel of the cart became stuck in a floor drain, causing the cart to topple onto the employee. The employee suffered a dislocated left hip. | |||||
| 2018-09-06 | Stevens Point | Wisconsin | Steel King Industries, Inc. | Forearm(s) | Ignition of clothing from controlled heat source |
| An employee was welding when his shirt sleeve contacted a hot weld and ignited. He suffered a second degree burn to his forearm, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2018-07-17 | Stevens Point | Wisconsin | Ascension - St. Michael's Hospital | Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| At about 10:15 a.m., an employee entered an operating room that had recently been "turned over." He slipped on the wet floor as he entered the room, falling to the floor and hitting his neck, head, and shoulder. He suffered swelling and contusions to two vertebrae in his neck. | |||||
| 2018-03-12 | Stevens Point | Wisconsin | Donaldson Company Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On March 12, 2018, an employee was stuffing metal liners into media packs and placing them on a conveyor line when the employee attempted to adjust an element that was on the conveyor. The employee's left middle fingertip was then pinched between the end of the element and a step crossing over the conveyor, amputating the fingertip. | |||||
| 2017-06-19 | Stevens Point | Wisconsin | Altmann Construction Company, Inc. | Leg(s) | Nonroadway collision with other vehicle |
| An employee was reversing a compact utility loader when it struck a forklift outrigger that was moving in the forward position. He suffered a left leg fracture and right calf laceration. | |||||
| 2017-05-10 | Stevens Point | Wisconsin | Donaldson Company, Inc. | Hand(s) | Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was brushing metal shavings out of a seamer when a metal sliver punctured his right hand. He later experienced hot/cold flashes, nausea, swelling in his right palm, and numbness in his right arm due to blood poisoning, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-04-13 | Stevens Point | Wisconsin | CAP Services Inc. | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
| On April 13, 2017, an employee fell from a ladder while insulating a residential home resulting in a head injury and hospitalization. | |||||
| 2016-10-10 | Stevens | Pennsylvania | Stevens Feed Mill, Incoprorated | Foot (feet) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee's foot was caught in a transfer auger for a corn bin, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2016-07-18 | Stevenson | Alabama | Deep South Crane Rentals, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was partially pinned underneath the front three sheets of bundled steel plates that slid off of the front of a flatbed trailer while the crane was attempting to set them down on the trailer. The employee suffered a fractured cheek bone and ocular socket, a large laceration on his back, and a dislocated shoulder. | |||||
| 2016-07-16 | Stevenson | Alabama | Universal Limited, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was dismantling scaffold when a large exhaust fan turned on. The fan blades amputated the employee's right middle fingertip below the nail bed, fractured the right ring finger and lacerated to the right index finger. | |||||
| 2016-02-19 | Stevenson | Alabama | WESTROCK CP, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was performing maintenance on a grinder machine, which was lifted up with a pin placed underneath. The machine fell and pinched the employee's fingers, amputating the right-hand middle and ring fingers at the distal joint. | |||||
| 2016-02-10 | Stevens Point | Wisconsin | Steel King Industries, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was using a jib crane to flip a cantilever. He guided the hook with his right hand and used the crane controller with his left hand. The employee hit the "up" button on the controller and his finger was caught between the hook and the cantilever, amputating his right index fingertip. | |||||
| 2016-01-06 | Stevens Point | Wisconsin | Donaldson Company Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating the can draw press when he noticed that the transfer had malfunctioned. While he was adjusting the trigger eye, his hand was on the equipment. The machine cycled after he made the adjustment, pinching his hand between the machine and the moving press transfer. His right middle fingertip was amputated. | |||||
| 2015-11-28 | Stevens Point | Wisconsin | Stevens Point Senior Living Inc | Ankle(s) and leg(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was walking to his vehicle in the company's parking lot and slipped on ice or snow fracturing the left leg and ankle. | |||||
| 2015-07-02 | Stevens Point | Wisconsin | Capstone Logistic, LLC | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee walking in the freezer slipped and fell, fracturing his right hip. | |||||
| 2015-04-27 | Stevens Point | Wisconsin | CAP Services, Inc. | Upper and lower limb(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee stood up from her desk and tripped on the floor mat or her purse and fell. She broke her knee and shoulder. | |||||