| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-02-14 | Terre Haute | In | Federal Corrections Complex Terre Haute | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was doing preventive maintenance on a cook pot. He had greased the motor shaft and was about to clean off the fitting when a set screw pinched his right index finger between the shaft and the grease fitting. He suffered a laceration and an open fracture to the fingertip. | |||||
| 2020-03-16 | Terre Haute | Indiana | Federal Bureau of Prison | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was operating a loom when the mechanical chain drive seized. The employee tried loosening bolts to the mechanism to free the chain drive, but that did not work. The employee then tried to manually manipulate the chain drive mechanism resulting in amputation of the right thumb tip. | |||||
| 2018-05-24 | Terre Haute | Indiana | U.S. Postal Service | Elbow(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee slipped on a plastic mail placard that had fallen from a mail tub and fell resulting in a broken right elbow and two torn ligaments. | |||||
| 2017-05-09 | Terre Haute | Indiana | Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was cutting a piece of wood on a table saw when the piece of wood kicked back. As the employee tried to catch the piece of wood, the saw blade cut his left hand, amputating his second, third, and fourth fingertips. | |||||