Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-09-21 | Zanesville | Oh | Capstone Logistics, LLC | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
On September 21, 2021, an employee was unloading a truck using a forklift when the dock plate popped up. The employee's foot was caught between the dock plate and the forklift, and the big toe was amputated. | |||||
2021-09-09 | Zanesville | Oh | Shelly and Sands | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by rolling object or equipment-other than powered vehicle |
Employees were loading an air compressor onto a truck. The compressor rolled and trapped an employee's right hand against the truck. The employee suffered a crushing injury and an amputation to a finger. | |||||
2020-10-06 | Zanesville | Oh | Casting Solutions, LLC | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was using a slag spoon to skim off impurities on molten gray iron. The employee dipped the spoon into the zircon wash and gray iron popped onto the employee. The employee sustained first and second degree burns to the left side of the palm, the forearm, and the abdomen. | |||||
2020-08-26 | Zanesville | Oh | EDWARD JONES | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee fell while walking down steps. The employee's right ankle was broken in three places. | |||||
2020-02-04 | Zanesville | Ohio | Casting Solutions LLc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was attempting to blow out the core box mold to make sure it was clear from residual sand when the machine cycled unexpectedly, pinching his left index finger between the pin and the cup. His finger was amputated at the first knuckle (mid-nail). The machine was in automatic mode at the time of the incident. | |||||
2020-01-15 | Zanesville | Ohio | Resource Plus Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee had been using a pry bar to remove a sign (weighing 150 lbs.) from an endcap. The employee was holding the structure when the sign came loose and fell, striking and amputating their right thumb. | |||||
2019-06-12 | Zanesville | Ohio | Big Lots | Knee(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee fell over a pallet in a stock room, landing on the floor face first. The employee suffered a head injury that required stitches, as well as a broken kneecap. | |||||
2018-08-07 | Zanesville | Ohio | Kellogg Co. | Foot (feet) | Collision between a moving and standing vehicle, nonroadway |
An employee was backing up a powered industrial truck after staging a pallet and crushed his left foot between his truck and one parked next to it. | |||||
2018-07-02 | Zanesville | Ohio | Dollar General Distribution Center | Lower leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee was standing in the inbound operation area checking products coming in when a forklift hit the employee's left foot. The employee's leg was amputated below the knee, requiring hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
2018-06-22 | Zanesville | Ohio | Viaquest Residential Services | Brain | Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving |
An employee was assaulted by a client while providing home health care. The employee suffered a concussion, contusions, and abrasions. | |||||
2018-03-28 | Zanesville | Ohio | CREATIVE PACKAGING, LLC. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was clearing scrap from a jammed machine and got a hand caught in the machine resulting in amputation of the left middle and ring fingertips. | |||||
2018-03-16 | Zanesville | Ohio | Zanesville Pallet Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
On March 16, 2018, an employee was unjamming a pallet. The hand movement triggered the electronic eye to load another pallet and the employee's left hand was caught between the two pallets, resulting in a fracture and fingertip amputation of the fifth finger requiring surgery. | |||||
2018-01-16 | Zanesville | Ohio | FedEx Services | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
On January 15, 2018, an employee tripped over an office mat while walking through the office, resulting in a broken hip. | |||||
2018-01-16 | Zanesville | Ohio | OWENS ILLINOIS | Hand(s), except finger(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
On January 16, 2018, an employee was operating a table saw to cut wood when the blade lacerated his right-hand palm, requiring surgery. The saw was unguarded at the time. | |||||
2017-10-07 | Zanesville | Ohio | Plaskolite, LLC | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
On October 7, 2017, an employee was clearing a jam from a hopper when the slide gate of a hopper closed on the employee's hand, amputating it. | |||||
2017-05-12 | Zanesville | Ohio | Plaskolite, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
At approximately 4:30 a.m., on May 12, 2017, an employee was operating an extrusion line when the film caused the sheet to become stuck at the center trim saw. He went under the line and pushed the sheet up to free it. When he did this, the force of the sheet pulled his hand toward the saw, which amputated his ring and middle fingertips. | |||||
2016-08-01 | Zanesville | Ohio | Ohio Stave Co. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was cleaning underneath a band saw when his left-hand pointer and middle fingers were partially amputated by the saw blade. The saw was running at the time of the incident. | |||||
2016-06-09 | Zanesville | Ohio | Brennstuhl Construction | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
On or about June 09, 2016, an employee was jacking a truck up when the jack slipped and hit the employee in the torso. The employee was hospitalized with a ribcage injury. | |||||
2016-05-01 | Zanesville | Ohio | O-I | Hip(s) | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee had unloaded cardboard from a pallet onto the carton erector machine. The employee was walking away from the task when a forklift operator traveling with a double stack of material bumped the employee, knocking the employee to the ground. The employee broke his left hip and was hospitalized. | |||||
2016-03-24 | Zanesville | Ohio | Kalkreuth Roofing | Multiple trunk locations | Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet |
An employee was repairing a leak on a roof when he fell 45 feet to the ground, injuring his torso and pelvis and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2016-03-19 | Zanesville | Ohio | Kellogg Company | Elbow(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee walking between buildings slipped on the damp floors and fell. She broke a bone in her elbow and was hospitalized. | |||||
2015-11-23 | Zanesville | Ohio | McClelland, Inc. Dba OK Coal and Concrete | Lumbar region | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was squatting down between the axel and the bumper of a truck. The truck started to lean and then fell from the jack stand, striking the employee in his lower back area. He was hospitalized with a lower back injury. | |||||
2015-11-22 | Zanesville | Ohio | Dow Cameron Oil & Gas LLC | Multiple body parts | Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway |
On or about November 22, 2015, an employee was seriously injured and hospitalized with a crushed pelvis and a lower left arm amputation, after being ejected from a front end loader that went over an embankment at the facility. | |||||
2015-10-12 | Zanesville | Ohio | Time Warner Cable | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet |
An employee fell 16-18 feet from an extension ladder and broke both wrists. The employee suffered head lacerations and two torn ligaments in the neck as well. | |||||
2015-10-12 | Zanesville | Ohio | Precision Fabricating | Fingertip(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker |
An employee was cleaning metal tooling. The tooling slipped and fell onto the employee's fingers amputating the middle and ring fingertips. | |||||
2015-09-11 | Zanesville | Ohio | Carl Rittberger Sr. Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee reached into a bowl chopper while the machine was running and amputated three fingers on his right hand. | |||||
2015-04-02 | Zanesville | Ohio | Little Caesars Pizza Store #445 | Leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee's legs broke in several places after being struck by an automobile that crashed into the facility. | |||||
2015-01-28 | Zanesville | Ohio | Lucus Truck Sales, Inc. | Pelvis | Struck by other falling powered vehicle |
On or about January 28, 2015, an employee was sent to the hospital when the school bus that he was working under fell off its jack stands and onto the employee crushing his pelvis. |