Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-08-08 | Tecumseh | Ks | Futamura USA, Inc. | Hand(s) and wrist(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee had climbed onto a machine platform and gotten down on his hands and knees to look for the cause of a defect in film that was running on a slitting machine. He slipped and his left hand went into the machine, where it was caught between a roller and a bar. He suffered broken tendons in the hand and wrist. | |||||
2021-04-24 | Tecumseh | Ks | Futamura USA, Inc. | Arm(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
At approximately 0900, an employee was trying to move a pulp roll back into position on a pulp feed rack. The pulp roll slid off the rack onto the floor and caught the employee's right arm against the rack. The employee was hospitalized with a broken arm that required surgery. | |||||
2021-03-05 | Tecumseh | Ks | Futamura USA, Inc. | Foot (feet) | Fall through surface or existing opening less than 6 feet |
An employee was taking lab waste to a special waste dumpster. The employee fell through grating adjacent to the special waste dumpster approximately 4 feet to the concrete floor and sustained broken bones in both feet. | |||||
2020-01-29 | Tecumseh | Oklahoma | Enerfin Resources | Head and trunk | Fall, slip, trip |
An employee was working on a compressor when his wrench slipped, causing him to fall and hit his head on the concrete. He suffered fractures to the head and back. | |||||
2020-01-23 | Tecumseh | Kansas | Futamura USA, Inc. | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee working as a finishing operator was using sand paper to clean a spindle roll on a slitter machine. The employee's arm was caught in the spinning rollers. The employee sustained a compound fracture to the right arm requiring hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
2017-07-13 | Tecumseh | Oklahoma | ALLIED STEEL CONSTRUCTION CO. | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was climbing a ladder when it slipped out from beneath him. He fell and injured both ankles, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2015-08-26 | Tecumseh | Nebraska | Correct Care Solutions | Nonclassifiable | Fall on same level due to tripping over self |
An employee was walking down a hallway while making rounds and miss-stepped and fell to the floor. | |||||
2015-05-20 | Tecumseh | Oklahoma | Belshe Trailers | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was operating a foot-actuated punch press when a piece of metal got stuck. While attempting to remove the metal, the hole punch actuated and amputated the employee's left index fingertip and thumb tip. | |||||
2015-01-21 | Tecumseh | Kansas | Innovia Films, Inc. | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
An employee was feeding film into the casting machine when his arm was caught between the rollers and broken. |