| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-02 | Vicksburg | Ms | Vicksburg Forest Products | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was leaning between two stacks of lumber to place a strap on one of the stacks. The strapper pulled the stacks together, and the employee was caught between them. The employee suffered a fractured sternum. | |||||
| 2021-01-07 | Vicksburg | Ms | Nexion Health at Vicksburg, Inc. | Foot (feet) | Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle |
| An employee parked the van. The employee tried to stop the van as it rolled away and his left foot was struck by the van and fractured. | |||||
| 2019-09-06 | Vicksburg | Mississippi | Mistras Services | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee suffered heat exhaustion while performing an X-ray of a weld inside a new tank construction at a rural site. | |||||
| 2019-04-22 | Vick | Louisiana | Rig Master Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| A maintenance employee was using an air-powered grease gun to grease some floating mooring bits when it injected grease underneath his thumb. | |||||
| 2019-04-13 | Vicksburg | Mississippi | Vicksburg Forest Products, LLC | Ear(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was feeding lumber into a planer. A flying object struck the employee below the left ear. | |||||
| 2019-04-01 | Vicksburg | Mississippi | Vicksburg Forest Products | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Vehicle or machinery fire |
| An employee was using a cutting torch with oxygen and acetylene when the hose caught fire, resulting in burns to his left thumb. | |||||
| 2019-03-06 | Vicksburg | Mississippi | Mississippi Lime Company | Multiple trunk locations | Ignition of clothing from controlled heat source |
| An employee was in a truck bay, servicing 18-wheeler trucks. A propane heater ignited an oil rag on his clothes, causing third-degree burns on his front and back. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-05-11 | Vicksburg | Mississippi | Anderson-Tully Lumber Co. | Hand(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was watching a 30-foot belt sander when the grinder belt got in a bind, causing the motor stand to tip over and catch the employee's hand between the stand and a rail. The employee's right hand was crushed, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2018-05-05 | Vickery | Ohio | JW DIDADO Electric | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was running new overhead powerlines from a lift when the lift's bucket contacted a pole insulator and moved unexpectedly, throwing him against the side of the bucket and the pole insulator. He strained a back ligament and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-10-12 | Vicksburg | Mississippi | Batesville Manufacturing | Ankle(s) and leg(s) | Fall on same level while climbing stairs, steps, or curbs |
| While returning from lunch and entering the yard office doorway, an employee tripped on a step and fell, suffering multiple fractures to the right leg and ankle. | |||||
| 2017-08-22 | Vicksburg | Mississippi | Mississippi TanTec Leather, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was changing the roller on a roller coater when it smashed two of his left-hand fingers, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-08-15 | Vicksburg | Mississippi | Batesville Manufacturing | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was working on a manual clamp. He was holding the clamp with his left hand and holding a cylinder with his right hand. His right index finger was inside a slot on the cylinder housing when the clamp arm slipped out of his left hand and fell. When the unit fell, his right index finger was still in the slot and the top portion of the cylinder came down and amputated his finger. The equipment was not locked out at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2017-05-01 | Vicksburg | Mississippi | Gavilon Grain | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was stepping off an excavator when his wedding ring was caught on the excavator catwalk and his ring finger was de-gloved. | |||||
| 2017-02-22 | Vicksburg | Mississippi | Team Power Group, LLC | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was installing a transmission line when the cable snapped, causing it to recoil and strike the employee in the mid section. He suffered broken ribs and a collapsed lung. | |||||
| 2016-08-16 | Vicksburg | Mississippi | Batesville Manufacturing | Fingertip(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was pulling a piece of wood (with her right hand) that was wedged under the board stop when a board slammed down on her hand, severely lacerating her right index finger and amputating the fingertip. | |||||
| 2016-08-10 | Vicksburg | Mississippi | Mississippi Tantec Leather | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| While an employee was moving a fan and floor mat, the fan was knocked over and the screen and blade came off and struck her left hand, cutting her fingers and breaking her ring finger. | |||||
| 2016-08-02 | Vicksburg | Mississippi | Anderson Tully Lumber Co. | Hand(s) | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee was doing maintenance work when a corrosive dip tank solution soaked into the employee's glove and caused burns to the hand. | |||||
| 2016-08-01 | Vicksburg | Mississippi | Bracken Construction | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| While decking on the roof, an employee became overheated and required hospitalization for heat exhaustion. | |||||
| 2016-05-10 | Vicksburg | Mississippi | Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions, Inc. | Upper and lower limb(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| At 9:00 AM, on 5/10/16, an employee and a coworker were preparing to replace a malfunctioning gauge board on an asphalt tank. They transferred contents from the malfunctioning tank to another tank and shut down the malfunctioning tank. Every energy source was off/locked out. Using an impact wrench, the employee began loosening/removing the bolts holding the manway cover on the tank. After he loosened several bolts, some hot liquid asphalt splashed out from behind the cover onto the concrete pad | |||||
| 2016-02-26 | Vicksburg | Mississippi | United States Army | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee was removing wiring and sensors from the top of a Tainter gate retaining wall. The employee fell 10-16 feet from the retaining wall and fractured vertebrae in the back. | |||||
| 2016-02-07 | Vicksburg | Mississippi | Ergon Biofuels ,LLC | Wrist(s) and arm(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was repairing a leaking site glass containing caustic acid when the glass ruptured. The employee suffered thermal burns from the wrist to the shoulder. | |||||
| 2015-12-19 | Vicksburg | Mississippi | Anderson-Tully Lumber Company | Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Sudden start or stop, nonroadway |
| An employee was driving a fork truck and struck a section of the concrete floor that was raised about 1/4 inch. The sudden stop caused a neck injury. | |||||
| 2015-10-08 | Vicksburg | Mississippi | Batesville Manufacturing | Hand(s) and wrist(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| The employee was putting sticks onto a conveyor belt when his right hand and arm got caught in the conveyor resulting in three broken fingers, a fractured wrist and abrasions on the arm. | |||||
| 2015-07-07 | Vicksburg | Mississippi | Waste Management | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was on a garbage pickup route in Warren County when he started cramping. He was hospitalized for dehydration. | |||||
| 2015-04-27 | Vicksburg | Mississippi | Old South Construction Company, LLC | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
| An employee was thrown from a Bobcat that overturned and the roll bar struck his left foot resulting into broken toes and swelling. | |||||
| 2015-01-21 | Vicksburg | Mississippi | BIG RIVER SHIPBUILDERS, INC. | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment |
| Employee was injured while demolishing a walkway on a barge. Employee was working on the second level of the barge when the board on which he was standing broke. He fell through the board, hitting his abdomen on a metal I-Beam as he was falling. | |||||