Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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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. | |||||
2020-05-26 | 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. | |||||
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. | |||||
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. | |||||
2016-02-10 | 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. |