Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-10-20 | Sturtevant | Wi | Badger Solutions LLC | Foot (feet) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was walking across a conveyor system. The employee's left foot was caught in a gap between two conveyors. The foot was broken and dislocated. | |||||
2021-02-01 | Sturtevant | Wi | UNFI | Ankle(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
An employee was operating a stand-up pallet jack and crushed their ankle between the pallet jack and a steel racking vertical post. The employee was hospitalized for surgery. | |||||
2020-02-20 | Sturtevant | Wisconsin | McLane Food Service | Brain | Fall, slip, trip |
An employee was taking boxes of food down a ramp on a dolly. The employee fell, suffering a head injury. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-08-30 | Sturtevant | Wisconsin | QPS EMPLOYMENT GROUP | Pelvis | Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object |
An employee was using a forklift to load pallets onto a semi truck. While the pallet load was off the semi, the employee got off the forklift to label it. The forklift moved forward, pinning the employee against the load and breaking his pelvis. | |||||
2018-02-05 | Sturtevant | Wisconsin | Real Alloy Recycling, Inc. | Forehead | Vehicle or machinery fire |
An employee was charging a furnace by adding material using a powered industrial vehicle. An explosion occurred, causing a fireball to come out of the furnace. The employee jumped from the vehicle to avoid the fireball and landed on the ground. He suffered first and second degree burns to the forehead and injuries to his left knee. | |||||
2017-03-31 | Sturtevant | Wisconsin | Graham Packaging Company | Eye(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was manually lifting individual pieces of scrap metal and throwing them into a metal bin when he was struck in the right eye by a metal rod that was ejected from the bin. He was wearing gloves and eye protection at the time. | |||||
2017-01-19 | Sturtevant | Wisconsin | Andis Company | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was running a milling machine when a software glitch allowed the machine's clamp to close on and amputate the employee's fingertip. | |||||
2016-03-25 | Sturtevant | Wisconsin | UNFI | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was riding a pallet jack from a chill area to a dry area and was waiting for others to pass through the doorway area. The automatic door cycled and came down on the employee, breaking his arm. | |||||
2015-12-29 | Sturtevant | Wisconsin | Ormco Corporation | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee slipped on ice and snow in the company parking lot and fell breaking their femur. The employee was hospitalized for surgery. | |||||
2015-09-11 | Sturtevant | Wisconsin | Langer Roofing & Sheet Metal Inc. | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was walking on the roof behind a buggy and was putting down stone when he hit his head on the buggy handle and fell on the roof. He injured his vertebrae. | |||||
2015-04-07 | Sturtevant | Wisconsin | Univeral Truckload Services, Inc. | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was unhooking the air hoses and components of a tractor trailer so he could separate the trailer from the tractor semi-truck. As he stepped down from unhooking the components, he missed the second step and fell to the ground, breaking his left hip. The employee was hospitalized and underwent hip surgery. | |||||
2015-01-30 | Sturtevant | Wisconsin | Poclain Hydraulics, Inc. | Foot (feet) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
Worker was hospitalized when the PIV he was operating slipped on wet service. The worker stuck a leg out, crushing the foot between a building beam (or structural member) and the PIV. |