Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-10-12 | Canal Winchester | Oh | Hampton Inn & Suites Canal Winchester Columbus | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Bending, crawling, reaching, twisting-single episode |
An employee was putting food items away. The employee bent over and stood up when she felt pain in her back due to a pulled muscle. | |||||
2021-07-09 | Canal Winchester | Oh | Rebco Electric | Multiple body parts | Direct exposure to electricity |
An employee was working on an electrical power panel. Wires slipped out of the employee's hands and the device he was using to hold the wires, resulting in an arc flash. He suffered electrical burns to the hands, forearms, and neck and was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-08-07 | Canal Winchester | Ohio | Universal Enterprise Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Struck against stationary object or equipment |
An employee was installing plumbing when sharp metal scratched and cut the lower part of his leg. | |||||
2019-07-02 | Winchester | Illinois | Arends-Awe, Inc. | Upper arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was servicing a baling machine on a farm. A hydraulic lever was activated and the employee was caught in the machine, suffering a severe laceration (with possible nerve damage) to the left bicep. | |||||
2018-08-31 | Canal Winchester | Ohio | Seals Construction, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
At 3:11 a.m. on August 31, 2018, while working in a manhole, an employee was overcome by an unknown air contaminant and lost consciousness. A second employee entered the manhole to rescue the first, but also lost consciousness. One of the employees was hospitalized. | |||||
2017-06-01 | Canal Winchester | Ohio | HFI | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was working on the front flap of a dock plate when a coworker stepped on the dock plate, causing it to amputate the employee's right middle finger. | |||||
2015-05-21 | Canal Winchester | Ohio | FeeCorp | Foot (feet) | Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle |
An employee was hospitalized after the skid steer loader he was working on rolled over his feet. | |||||
2015-04-02 | Winchester | Illinois | Arends-Awe, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker |
An employee was taking a lawn mower deck out of a crate. The employee was sliding the deck forward to put the wheels back on when the deck started to drop. The employee's finger got caught between the gauge wheel bracket and the crate, amputating the tip of the left-hand ring finger. |