Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-11-01 | Winfield | Al | Marion Moulding | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
On November 1, 2021, an employee was feeding a wood bundle into a wrapping machine when a piece of wood dropped. Her left middle finger was caught between it and the incoming wood bundle. The finger was partially amputated. | |||||
2020-10-03 | Winfield | Ks | Rubbermaid Commercial LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was trying to unclog a grinder's airlock. Metal paddles inside the airlock caught the employee's right index finger and thumb, amputating the finger right under the top knuckle and the thumb right above the top knuckle. | |||||
2020-09-08 | Winfield | Ks | Western Industry Plastics Products LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate |
An employee's finger was caught between the door and door-frame of an entryway while entering the building. The distal end of the left middle finger was amputated. | |||||
2020-03-23 | Winfield | Kansas | Rubbermaid Incorporated | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was inspecting the brake drum and the left wheel on a forklift. While the employee was reinstalling the brake, his left little finger was caught between the drum and the brake drum. The finger was lacerated and the tip was amputated. | |||||
2020-03-23 | Winfield | Kansas | ELECTRICAL RELIABILITY SERVICES, INC. | Multiple body parts | Direct exposure to electricity |
An employee was doing maintenance work on an electrical breaker when an arc flash burned the employee's right hand, abdomen, and forearm. | |||||
2019-07-10 | Winfield | Alabama | Clayton Supply a Division of CMH Manufacturing, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was at the feeding table, feeding molding/wood pieces into the wrapping machine. The employee complained of chest pains and then slumped over a pallet of wood. She was hospitalized for heat-related illness. | |||||
2019-06-14 | Winfield | Kansas | Valley Cooperative | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee stepped into the floor auger of a grain bin, resulting in the amputation of some toes. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery. | |||||
2019-01-25 | Winfield | Kansas | Newell Rubbermaid Inc | Forearm(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was working in a boom lift changing out light fixtures when their arm became caught between the lift basket and a rack. The employee was hospitalized with a right radius fracture and open wound. | |||||
2018-09-22 | Winfield | West Virgini | Comcast | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was standing on a stepladder, replacing coaxial cable on the outside of a home. The employee fell, landing on a cable reel and suffering broken ribs. | |||||
2018-08-29 | Winfield | Illinois | CENTRAL DUPAGE HOSPITAL | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
On August 29, 2018, an employee slipped on a wet floor and suffered a broken femur. | |||||
2018-08-22 | Winfield | West Virgini | Henkels and McCoy, Inc | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
An employee was moving an articulating dump truck on a mat bridge when one of the tires caught the edge of the mat bridge and began to slide. The truck slid off the bridge and rolled onto its side. The employee suffered a punctured lung, fractured ribs, and a head laceration, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2018-07-27 | Winfield | West Virgini | Service Electric Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Fall, slip, trip |
On July 27, 2018, a lineman fell while guiding a steel tower foundation leg in place. His thumb was caught in a pinch point in the tower frame, suffering a fracture. | |||||
2018-06-18 | Winfield | Pennsylvania | New Enterprise Stone & Lime Co., Inc. | Knee(s) | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
An employee was providing air to support a bridge dismantling project. He began to walk to a truck where the air compressor was housed when his knee gave out at the top of a hill, causing him to slip down the embankment approximately 12 to 15 feet. He sustained knee injures and was hospitalized for surgery. | |||||
2018-05-18 | Winfield | Kansas | Webster Combustion | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was using a sheet metal roller machine to make a part and was attempting to straighten a piece when the roller caught the employee's left hand, amputating the little and ring fingers. | |||||
2018-03-16 | Winfield | Kansas | Western Industries, Inc. Plastic Products Group | Wrist(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by other person |
On 3/16/2018, at 2:49 PM, an employee was helping a second employee move a large plastic part. The second employee was holding a knife at the time. The first employee's left wrist contacted the knife, severing an artery. He was hospitalized and had surgery. | |||||
2018-02-24 | Winfield | Illinois | NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | Knee(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee slipped on newly waxed floors, resulting in hospitalization for a ruptured MCL. | |||||
2018-01-27 | Winfield | West Virgini | AEP Central Machine Shop | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee fell approximately 8 feet while descending a scaffold ladder, fracturing the right elbow and L3 vertebra. | |||||
2018-01-24 | Winfield | Illinois | Central DuPage Hospital Association | Brain | Fall on same level due to slipping |
On January 24, 2018, at approximately 7:45 a.m., an employee slipped on ice after exiting her car on the top floor of the parking garage and fell, striking the back of her head on the ground. She suffered a concussion, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2017-06-21 | Winfield | West Virgini | American Electric Power | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
On June 21, 2017, at approximately 2:45 p.m., an employee was removing a 4-inch water valve from a line when the employee's right pinky finger was pinched between the valve and pipe, amputating it just above the first knuckle. | |||||
2017-03-21 | Winfield | Kansas | Rubbermaid Incorporated | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was lifting a mold with a crane. He had rigged the mold using chain slings through eye bolts secured to the mold. He was operating the crane with his right hand and placed his left hand on the chain sling/top of the eye bolt. As the slings became tighter, the chains came together and pinched the end of his left thumb, causing an open fracture of his left thumb tip. His thumb tip had to be surgically amputated. | |||||
2016-06-23 | Winfield | Kansas | Galaxy Technologies Inc | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
While setting up a machine, an employee's left index fingertip was amputated. | |||||
2015-07-31 | Winfield | Illinois | CENTRAL DUPAGE HOSPITAL | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
On 7/31/2015, at approximately 7:30 a.m., an employee in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) was helping a patient turn her body, so that the file film for x-ray preparation could be placed beneath the patient's body. The employee began to walk around the patient's bed when she tripped over IV tubing and fell to the floor. She sustained a right-leg femur bone fracture and bruised her face. | |||||
2015-02-25 | Winfield | Kansas | Morton Builiding Inc | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
Employee was carrying a building truss with a forklift and placed a truss into a stored area. The employee reversed the forklift and walked up to the stored truss. The truss fell on the employee, causing facial injuries and fractured ribs. |