Machine Injury & Accidents

Date	City	State	Employer	Body Part	Event
2021-10-06	Troy	Ny	Eddy Heritage House Nursing & Rehabilitation Center	Hip(s)	Fall on same level while climbing stairs, steps, or curbs
An employee tripped on a step at a door and fell to the floor, resulting in a fractured left hip.
2021-06-24	Troy	Il	Crete Carrier Corporation	Eye(s)	Struck by object or equipment
An employee was securing a toolbox when they were struck in the eye by a bungee cord hook, resulting in an eye globe laceration that required hospitalization.
2021-06-09	Troy	Ny	Eddy Heritage House Nursing & Rehabilitation Center	Thigh(s)	Fall on same level due to tripping over self
An employee tripped and fell to the floor, suffering a broken left femur. She was hospitalized, requiring surgery.
2021-05-31	Troy	Al	Montura Concrete, Inc.	Arm(s)	Fall, slip, trip
An employee was pouring concrete and fell onto exposed rebar resulting in an arm laceration and hospitalization.
2021-04-29	Troy	Oh	Kettering Health Network	Ankle(s)	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
An employee was walking down steps and fell at the last step. The employee suffered a broken right ankle.
2021-04-24	Troy	Oh	ConAgra Foods Packaged Foods LLC 1760702	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
An employee was inspecting a machine that organized short jerky sticks. As he was pointing out a segment of jerky, the collator belt pulled in his left index finger and amputated it.
2021-03-20	Troy	Ny	SAMARITAN HOSPITAL	Lower leg(s)	Injury by other person-unintentional or intent unknown, n.e.c.
An employee was helping a patient to the restroom. The patient lost consciousness in the restroom and fell back toward her, causing them both to fall. The toilet struck the employee's right knee, causing a fracture to the tibia at the knee.
2021-01-29	Troy	Al	S.A.I.M.A. of North America, Inc	Foot (feet)	Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
An employee was acting as a spotter for a forklift driver when the forklift backed over the employee's foot, resulting in a broken foot.
2021-01-27	Troy	Al	HB & G Building Products Inc	Fingertip(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
An employee was moving a group of metal bars. As he placed them on a table, they caught his fingers and amputated his left middle and ring fingertips.
2021-01-11	Troy	Oh	ConAgra Foods Packaged Foods, LLC	Fingertip(s)	Struck against object or equipment
An employee was pulling apart a piece of metal that he had just cut. He hit a metal cylinder that was being used as a counterweight and suffered a soft-tissue amputation to the right index fingertip.
2020-09-14	Troy	Ny	HARRISON & BURROWES BRIDGE CONSTRUCTORS, INC.	BODY SYSTEMS	Stings and venomous bites
An employee was stung by an insect while putting on gear to start welding and was hospitalized.
2020-09-11	Troy	Tx	Anderton Castings, LLC	Brain	Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area
An employee was struck by a forklift and suffered a head injury.
2020-08-24	Troy	Oh	Davis H. Elliot Company Incorporated	Face	Direct exposure to electricity
An employee was replacing a damaged air break switch at a distribution circuit. A surge arrestor connected to the air break switch failed and an arc flash caused burns to the employee's face.
2020-06-22	Troy	Alabama	KW Container	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was clearing a jam on a conveyor when his fingers were caught by the conveyor belt. He sustained a fracture to the left thumb and a contusion to the left index finger.
2020-06-15	Troy	Ohio	Clopay Corporation	Upper extremities	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was cleaning glue from the roller of a glue machine when the employee's hand was caught in the roller, resulting in torn ligaments. The machine was not locked out at the time of the incident.
2020-06-05	Troy	Ohio	West Troy, LLC	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was unjamming a ring from a compounder machine when the machine finished a cycle and amputated the employee's left middle fingertip.
2020-05-11	Troy	Ohio	Clopay Corporation	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was conducting maintenance on a side plate's coupon feeder when the side plate retracted back to the home position, catching his right middle finger between the slide plate and a roller. As a result, the employee's right middle finger was amputated.
2020-04-25	Troy	New York	Eddy Memorial Geriatric	BODY SYSTEMS	Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue
An employee was working in a COVID-19 unit, and accordingly was wearing full PPE during her shifts on April 25 and April 26, 2020, including an N95 mask. She felt itching on her forehead and around the mask on April 25, then developed swollen eyelids and hives to the face, trunk, and legs on April 26. She became short of breath at home on April 28 and was hospitalized, suffering from diffuse urticaria and dyspnea, possibly from the mask.
2020-04-24	Troy	Alabama	Rex Lumber, Troy, LLC	Fingertip(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
An employee was changing a blade on a sawmill module. His glove got caught and pulled off, and the blade amputated his left ring fingertip.
2020-02-23	Troy	Ohio	Faurecia	Fingertip(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
Two employees were performing a changeover of steel rolls/tooling. While one employee was pushing a metal roll stand back onto a shaft, the injured employee's left middle finger was caught between the metal spacer and the key-way of the metal stand. The fingertip was amputated.
2019-05-21	Troy	Alabama	HB&G Building Products, Inc.	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was cleaning out a 1-inch diameter pipe that feeds organic peroxide catalyst into a mixing bucket. A pneumatic valve closed on the employee's right pinky finger and amputated half an inch from the tip of the finger.
2019-05-17	Troy	Ohio	Ruby Tuesday #4802	Hip(s)	Fall on same level due to slipping
An employee was walking into the bar area when the employee slipped and fell on the wet floor that had just been mopped, suffering a broken left hip.
2019-05-05	Troy	New York	PRICE CHOPPER, INC.	Fingertip(s)	Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
An employee was cutting bone-in pork when his hand slipped and contacted the band saw blade. He sustained a partial amputation to his right index fingertip.
2019-04-30	Troy	Idaho	Gritman Medical Center	BODY SYSTEMS	Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
A medical assistant suffered a respiratory reaction to a cleaning chemical and was hospitalized.
2019-04-25	Troy	Ohio	Faurecia	Fingertip(s)	Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects
On 4/25/2019, an employee was installing a roll for the tube mill and amputated a fingertip.
2019-03-18	Troy	Missouri	BODINE ALUMINUM	Ankle(s)	Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway
An employee was operating a forklift when it flipped, pinning and spraining the employee's ankle.
2019-03-18	Troy	Ohio	Troy Laminating and Coating, Inc.	Nonclassifiable	Fall through surface or existing opening less than 6 feet
Two employees were cleaning on the back side of a coater, standing on decking 50 inches above the floor. One of them fell through a 2-foot-wide gap in the decking, suffering broken vertebrae, diabetic issues, and bruising.
2019-03-03	Troy	Ohio	Steak N Shake, Inc.	Head and trunk	Fall on same level due to slipping
An employee slipped and fell on ice on the way to their car, suffering back and head injuries.
2019-02-25	Troy	Texas	Anderton Casting, LLC.	Multiple body parts	Contact with hot objects or substances
An employee was helping to free a stuck shot tip and was struck by the automated ladling system. The molten metal caused second and third degree burns to his right shoulder, back, neck and face.
2019-01-28	Troy	New York	SAMARITAN HOSPITAL	Nonclassifiable	Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue
An employee was cleaning the floors using a floor scrubbing machine when she fell and came into contact with corrosive floor stripper chemicals. She was hospitalized with chemical skin burns.
2018-07-08	Troy	New York	RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE	Hip(s)	Other fall to lower level
An employee fell from a truck bed while loading pallets, landing on the floor and fracturing his hip.
2018-06-05	Troy	Pennsylvania	Oak Hill Veneer, Incorporated	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
An employee was helping to load the log slicer. A log slipped from the log deck crane onto the log slicer and struck the employee's left little finger. The finger was crushed and surgically amputated.
2018-04-25	Troy	Texas	Anderton Castings, LLC	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
An employee was going to clean an evaporator when the employee's right middle finger was pinched between two stainless steel-hinged lids (doors), resulting in an amputation just behind the nailbed.
2018-04-23	Troy	Ohio	F & P America Mfg., Inc.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
An employee was using a band saw to cut samples from a sub frame when the saw cut into the employee's right index finger, requiring hospitalization and surgery. The saw was guarded at the time.
2018-04-23	East Troy	Wisconsin	Scot Industries, Inc	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
An employee was operating a machine when a tube became stuck in a pneumatic roller. He went to remove the tube from the roller. When he removed enough pressure from the roller, the tube ejected out of the machine, lacerating and breaking his left pinky finger above the first knuckle.
2018-02-22	Troy	New York	Price Chopper	Nonclassifiable	Fall on same level due to slipping
When leaving work, an employee fell on ice, resulting in a hospitalization.
2018-02-22	Troy	Ohio	Troy Laminating and Coating, Inc.	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
A temporary employee was cleaning a mechanically driven roller on a coating machine when the roller pulled the employee's left hand into the machine, causing an open fracture on a finger that resulted in a fingertip amputation.
2018-01-29	Troy	Ohio	Freudenberg-NOK	Hip(s)	Fall on same level
An employee fell to the ground while walking from a work cell, suffering a broken hip.
2017-09-13	Troy	Ohio	Crown Packaging Corporation	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
A temporary employee was using a packing machine to wrap a part in plastic sheeting. The plastic sheeting balled up inside the machine. The employee attempted to dislodge the blockage and amputated his right middle fingertip.
2017-07-27	Troy	Alabama	Sander Lead Company Inc.	BODY SYSTEMS	Exposure to environmental heat
An employee was pumping lead molds in a work environment of 95 degrees Fahrenheit. After finishing his shift, the employee became dehydrated and had cramps. The employee was hospitalized.
2017-07-19	Troy	Pennsylvania	WHC, LLC	Toes(s), toenail(s)	Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
An employee was helping a coworker install a 600-pound flange/pup onto another pipe. The coworker was using a homemade flange hook to hold the flange/pup when the flange/pup fell onto the employee's foot. The employee was hospitalized with broken toes.
2017-05-06	Troy	Ohio	West Troy, LLC	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was performing preventative maintenance on a machine and greasing a chain when a finger was caught in the machine's chain and sprocket resulting in partial amputation of the right thumb. The machine was not guarded at the time.
2017-03-15	Troy	New York	Dinosaur Restaurants LLC	Foot (feet)	Fall on same level due to slipping
An employee was walking in the parking lot from her car to report to work when she slipped and fell on ice fracturing her foot.
2017-03-09	East Troy	Wisconsin	James R Taylor and Sons, Inc.	Arm(s)	Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
An employee was unloading roofing materials on a flat roof when a gust of wind blew him off the roof. The employee fell 16-17 feet to the ground fracturing an arm in numerous places.
2017-01-22	Troy	Alabama	KW Plastics recycling division	Leg(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery
As an employee was attempting to put a screen back on a spin dryer, he stepped into an opening on an auger and his leg was crushed/fractured by the auger.
2017-01-17	Troy	Idaho	SSC ELECTRIC INC	Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Fall on same level due to slipping
An employee was inspecting a well at a customer's site when he slipped and fell on a patch of ice, breaking his rib and requiring hospitalization.
2016-10-19	Troy	New Hampshir	U.S. Postal Service	Toes(s), toenail(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
An employee's right big toe was amputated when the loading dock platform was lowered onto his toe.
2016-09-21	Troy	Alabama	Sanders Lead Company, Inc.	BODY SYSTEMS	Exposure to environmental heat
An employee was drawing and smelting a pot for casting lead when he became dehydrated and experienced nausea, weakness, and lightheadedness. He was hospitalized for heat stress/exhaustion and dehydration.
2016-08-24	Troy	Alabama	Southern Diversified Technologies Inc.	Lower leg(s)	Fall on same level
While returning to the construction site from lunch, an employee slipped/tripped and fell onto the excavator blade lacerating the employee's right shin. The employee was hospitalized.
2016-08-11	Troy	Alabama	Sanders Lead Company, Inc.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Struck by falling object or equipment
An employee was filling a lead mold when the mold dropped on his right hand, fracturing his right forefinger and bruising his right thumb.
2016-07-26	Troy	Missouri	BODINE ALUMINUM	BODY SYSTEMS	Exposure to environmental heat
An employee was working on the line when he began cramping. He fainted and was hospitalized due to heat-related illness and dehydration.
2016-07-13	Troy	Missouri	ARROWHEAD BUILDING SUPPLY	Brain	Other fall to lower level 21 to 25 feet
An employee was hospitalized for a possible concussion after falling from a two story roof while stocking shingles.
2016-07-01	Troy	Ohio	Deltech Polymers Corporation	Fingertip(s)	Struck against object or equipment
An employee was troubleshooting a pelletizer machine that cuts crystal polystyrene using a knife blade. He made contact with the pelletizer machine blade, amputating his right-hand index fingertip. The machine was unguarded at the time of the incident.
2016-06-16	Troy	Missouri	BODINE ALUMINUM	BODY SYSTEMS	Exposure to environmental heat
An employee was hospitalized after suffering from heat exhaustion.
2016-05-15	Troy	New York	Sodexo, Inc.	Thigh(s)	Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
An employee was retrieving supplies from the storeroom when she tripped and fell over a plastic rack, breaking her left femur.
2016-03-31	Troy	Alabama	Sanders Lead Company, Inc.	Multiple body parts	Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving
Two employees had an altercation and one employee struck the other employee with his respirator knocking him out. The injured employee fell to the ground and was hospitalized with fractures to the forehead, nose, and left wrist.
2016-03-03	Troy	New York	St. Peter's Health Partners	Multiple trunk locations	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
An employee was walking down a flight of stairs when he tripped and fell down three stairs. He struck the handrail and suffered a contusion to the lower chest/upper abdomen on his right side.
2016-02-08	Troy	Pennsylvania	Oak Hill Veneer, Incorporated	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was operating a cut-off saw when his glove was stuck in a chain, pulling his hand into the saw blades. He amputated his pinky finger and part of his right-hand ring finger.
2016-01-13	Troy	Pennsylvania	Cummings Lumber Co. Inc.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee's gloved hand got caught and pulled into a wood-working machine, amputating several fingers.
2015-12-22	Troy	Ohio	Hobart Brothers Company	Hand(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was working at a coil winder, winding reactor coil and got their left hand caught in the machine between the plate and feed wire.
2015-12-01	Troy	New York	St. Peter's Health Partners	Hip(s)	Fall on same level due to slipping
An employee fell on the wet sidewalk and fractured her hip.
2015-11-15	Troy	Missouri	Professional Abatement & Remediation Technologies	Hand(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was moving a 4-inch-diameter hose to an industrial vacuum cleaner when his clothing and hand were sucked into the hose. The high pressure suction caused the capillaries in his hand to swell. He was hospitalized and required surgery to reduce the swelling.
2015-07-08	Troy	Alabama	SANDERS LEAD COMPANY, INC.	Arm(s)	Contact with hot objects or substances
Two employees were pouring material into an alloy melting pot when it splashed back onto them. One employee suffered second degree burns to both arms; the second employee suffered second degree burns to his right leg. Both were hospitalized.
2015-06-26	Troy	Missouri	BODINE ALUMINUM	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
A maintenance employee was troubleshooting a dust collector that was getting clogged. The employee disconnected the dust collector but did not disconnect the wheelabrator, which continued to rotate. The employee suffered a partial amputation to his right index finger.
2015-06-23	Troy	Alabama	Troy Medical Center	Arm(s)	Struck by discharged object or substance
An employee was hospitalized when a pneumatic nail gun exploded causing fragments to be embedded in the right thigh and lacerating the right arm.
2015-05-15	Troy	New York	Casale Construction Services, Inc.	Nonclassifiable	Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
An employee was cleaning the construction site when a concrete company's cage broke. The concrete forms inside the cage then fell on the employee, who was hospitalized.
2015-03-30	East Troy	Wisconsin	US PACKAGING LLC	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was injured when she reached into a Bartelt Machine that was being repaired by a maintenance technician. The employee did not notice the maintenance technician and went behind the machine to remove a pouch from it. The machine caught the tip of her glove and pulled her hand back, amputating a portion of her pinky. The maintenance technician was unaware of her presence.
2015-03-24	Troy	Pennsylvania	Bare Foot Flooring, Inc.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Contact with objects and equipment
An employee amputated his right ring finger while operating a molding machine.
2015-03-07	Troy	Alabama	Lowes Home Centers, LLC	Skull	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
An employee fell from a three-step ladder and struck her head on the floor, resulting in a fractured skull.
2015-03-02	Troy	Ohio	ConAgra Foods Packaged Foods, LLC	Hand(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
Employee's hand got caught between a belt and sprocket during startup operations. The employee was hospitalized.
2015-01-09	Troy	Alabama	KW Container	Nonclassifiable	Nonclassifiable
An employee suffered an amputation while working in the facility.