Machine Injury & Accidents

Date	City	State	Employer	Body Part	Event
2021-07-23	Pittsburgh	Pa	Giant Eagle Inc.	Hip(s)	Fall on same level due to slipping
Two employees were retrieving plastic grocery bags. One employee slipped on some bags that had fallen to the floor, fell, and suffered a broken hip.
2021-07-22	Midland	Tx	Agri-Empresa LLC	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area
A temporary employee was cutting IBC bags of barite into a metal hopper to unload product. The employee's left hand was on the edge of the hopper as a forklift approached with a bag. The employee's pinky finger was caught between the hopper and the bag resulting in a partial amputation.
2021-07-03	Lithia Springs	Ga	Saddle Creek Corporation	Lower leg(s)	Fall through surface or existing opening less than 6 feet
An employee was loading a trailer with pallets of product at a warehouse dock. After stowing the dock plate, the employee entered the trailer to put some airbags in the trailer to help support the pallet loads. While exiting the trailer, the employee's leg fell into the gap between the trailer floor and the dock floor resulting in a lower leg laceration.
2021-06-29	Kiel	Wi	H.G. Weber and Company, Inc.	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
On June 28, 2021, at approximately 1:00 PM, an employee was adjusting the timing and speed of the bundler and transport modules on a paper bag manufacturing machine. A stack of 25 paper bags became misaligned as it went onto the transport module. The employee was adjusting the stack when his right thumb was caught in the point of operation between the bundler and transport modules resulting in a fingertip amputation.
2021-06-21	Bolingbrook	Il	Bay State Milling Company	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
At 12:04 p.m. on June 21, 2021, an employee was dumping 50-pound bags of ground caraway into a hopper through a screen. The product bridged in the hopper, so the employee slid the screen out of the way and began pushing the product down. The screw feed auger at the bottom of the hopper nipped his right index finger, causing an amputation.
2021-04-15	Midway	Fl	George Hackney, Inc.	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
On April 15, 2021, an employee conducted a test run of a new bagging machine when one of the bags got hung up in the bagging compartment. The employee attempted to unjam the machine when his left index finger became caught between the cutter and a flat piece of metal at the base. The employee suffered the amputation of his left index finger tip without bone loss.
2021-04-08	Miami	Fl	Kendall Car Wash, Inc.	Brain	Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c.
An employee was about to move a vehicle that was exiting the car wash for drying and detailing. When the vehicle was started, it raced forward, crossing the property and then six lanes of traffic, and crashed into a structure across the street. The employee suffered a head injury and concussion when the air bags deployed.
2021-04-07	White Sands Missile Range	Nm	U.S. Border Patrol - El Paso Sector	Nonclassifiable	Nonclassifiable
An employee was moving sandbags when they became dizzy.
2021-04-06	New Straitsville	Oh	Vickroy's Disposal Inc.	Multiple body parts	Pedestrian vehicular incident
An employee was loading trash bags into the back of a garbage truck. The truck backed over him. He suffered eight cracked ribs, a collapsed lung, a lacerated liver, a broken knee, a broken ankle, a gash in the lower right leg, and spine injuries.
2021-03-28	York	Pa	The Giant Company	Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)	Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
An employee running a check stand/cash register tripped over a box of grocery bags that was on the floor. The employee's left arm hit the floor causing a dislocated left shoulder requiring hospitalization.
2021-03-11	North Creek	Ny	Service America Corp	Lower leg(s)	Struck by object or equipment, n.e.c.
An employee was in a ski lift loading area. She was holding two bags. One of the bag handles broke, and as she reached down to grab the bag, her left knee twisted and the lift chair hit her buttock. She suffered a fracture to the upper part of the left tibia, at the knee.
2021-02-23	Harrisonville	Mo	WALMART LOGISTICS	Upper and lower limb(s)	Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle
An employee was hauling air bags with a forklift when the forklift collided with a support column, resulting in injuries to the employee's hands and feet.
2021-02-15	Kingwood	Tx	Kingwood Emergency Hospital	Arm(s)	Fall on same level due to slipping
An employee was taking sandbags to an emergency room ambulance bay. He slipped on ice and fell, breaking his left arm.
2021-02-07	Carlisle	Pa	John W. Gleim Jr. Inc	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
An employee was loading bags of salt into the bed of the pickup truck. The employee closed the tailgate, catching their finger between the tailgate and the job box and resulting in a partial amputation of the left ring finger.
2021-02-01	Bartlett	Il	Cheese Merchants of America LLC	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was operating a flexible packaging machine that filled, sealed, cut, and discharged plastic bags filled with shredded cheese. As the filled bag of cheese was exiting the machine onto a metal load plate that agitated up and down for the purpose of settling the cheese in the bag, the employee's right pinky finger was caught between the agitating load plate and it's base platform beneath. The employee suffered a partial amputation of the finger.
2021-01-20	Grand Prairie	Tx	Poly-America, L.P.	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was stacking plastic bags and staging them to lift off a transfer table. When the employee lifted a stack of bags, her right pinky finger was pinched by a transfer belt, resulting in a partial amputation of her fingertip (without bone loss).
2021-01-13	Fitzgerald	Ga	American Blanching Company	Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
An employee was removing plastic elevator buckets from the tops of pallets of empty tote bags. As the employee came down from the pallets (42 inches off the floor), his foot caught the edge of a pallet and he fell to the concrete floor on his left side, with a bucket under him. The employee sustained a lacerated kidney and was hospitalized.
2020-10-15	Omaha	Ne	Phibro Animal Health Corp.	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was adding bags of minerals to a mixer. His fingers were caught in the rotating mixer blades while sweeping residual material into the opening resulting in amputation of the right index and middle fingertips. The machine was not guarded at the time.
2020-10-04	Houston	Tx	Contemporary Services Corporation	Arm(s)	Fall on same level due to tripping over self
An employee was checking bags at an entry gate, tripped and fell to the concrete ground. The employee fractured their right arm.
2020-10-04	Houston	Tx	Contemporary Services Corporation	BODY SYSTEMS	Exposure to environmental heat
An employee was screening bags at a security gate and lost consciousness. The employee was hospitalized for heat exhaustion.
2020-10-02	Saint Louis	Mo	MCCONNELL AND ASSOCIATES	Hand(s)	Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
An employee was opening bags and mixing sand in a paint mixer. His left hand was struck by the agitator and fractured.
2020-08-28	Kenosha	Wi	Herbo International	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was using a hand vacuum to clean up tea powder around a machine. Her cleaning rag fell off the side of the machine into a coned-shape opening where bags of material were being cut. She tried grabbing her rag with her left hand, but the rag was caught and pulled by the machine. As she tried pulling the rag out, her left index fingertip was cut by the machine blades.
2020-08-23	Laredo	Tx	UNITED STATES COLD STORAGE	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
An employee was retrieving two cargo airbags for loading a truck. While driving a powered industrial truck (PIT) down the dock, the PIT collided with a bollard by a door. The employee sustained a left thumb amputation.
2020-08-20	Orlando	Fl	INSULATION DISTRIBUTORS, INC.	Leg(s)	Other fall to lower level
A driver was at a customer's location unloading fiberglass insulation on pallets. As the driver was removing a pallet, the top bags got caught on the door and shifted. The driver tried to shift them back and fell from the liftgate at the back of the truck. The driver sustained a cut on the leg and possible bone damage.
2020-08-18	Houston	Tx	Goodman Distribution, Inc.	Lower leg(s)	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
An employee fell from a 4-foot ladder while restocking 5 lb. bags, impacting the ground and fracturing his lower left leg.
2020-08-17	Austin	Tx	Dan Williams Company	Foot (feet)	Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
The injured employee was standing in a hole with a pipe in it during road construction. The employee was unloading bags of concrete from an excavator bucket in preparation for pouring the concrete around the pipe in the hole. The excavator bucket was lowered onto the employee's left foot. The employee was hospitalized for a crushing injury to the left foot that required surgery.
2020-07-19	Joint Base Lewis Mcchord	Washington	Brice Civil Constructors	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
Employees were setting large sandbags along the edge of a retaining wall using an excavator to lift the bags into place. An employee was attaching the hook when his right index finger was caught between the hook and the nylon strap. When the load was lifted, the finger was amputated at the first knuckle.
2020-07-14	Brooklyn	New York	Jrcruz Corp.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
An employee was carrying an 8-inch cast iron casting from the yard when he tripped on a pallet of ready-mix concrete bags and fell. His right thumb was pinched and severely lacerated.
2020-05-28	Cross City	Florida	Forestry Resources, LLC	Hand(s)	Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts
An employee was checking a top seal machine to determine why the bags were not heat sealing properly when he contacted an energized 240 volt, 20 amp electrical wire and received electrical burns to his right hand.
2020-05-13	Boynton Beach	Florida	Crossmark, Inc.	Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Fall on same level, n.e.c.
An employee was setting 20 lb. charcoal bags at a Publix supermarket when the employee felt dizzy and fell to the floor, suffering a cracked rib and minor cuts to the face and hands.
2020-03-23	Lincoln	Nebraska	Nature's Variety	Arm(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was using a sealer for plastic bags. A rotating shaft in the sealer caught his sleeve and broke his left arm.
2020-02-05	Arlington	Texas	Lowes Home Center, LLC	Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)	Other fall to lower level
An employee was loading 55 bags of mulch in a trailer when he slipped off the trailer to the ground and broke a bone in his right shoulder.
2020-01-20	Smyrna	Delaware	Food Lion, LLC	Hip(s)	Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
An employee was putting bags in cart for a customer. She then walked backwards to her register and tripped on a rock salt display, causing her to fall. She landed on and fractured her right hip.
2020-01-04	Houston	Texas	BFI Waster Services of Texas	Foot (feet)	Other fall to lower level
An employee was attempting to remove trash bags from the top of a truck. The employee fell from the top of the truck to the ground, suffering a broken right foot.
2019-09-11	Jacksonville	Illinois	Reynolds Consumer Products, LLC.	Hip(s)	Fall on same level, n.e.c.
On September 11, 2019, at approximately 10:30 a.m., an employee was dumping a rolling tub of scrap bags when the employee noticed several individual scrap bags remained in the bottom of the scrap tub. The employee reached into the tub to remove the remaining bags. As the employee pushed on the corner of the tub to provide leverage to raise up the scrap tub, the scrap tub tipped sideways, causing the employee to lose balance and fall to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a right hip f
2019-09-11	Joplin	Missouri	GILSTER MARY LEE	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was operating a bagging machine on the production line. When she changed the bags, her finger was caught in the jaw assembly and her left index fingertip was amputated.
2019-08-28	Atlanta	Georgia	Delta Airlines	Brain	Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
An employee was loading bags onto a luggage cart. A bag fell off a luggage slide and struck the employee in the head. The employee was hospitalized with a head injury.
2019-08-17	Lincoln	Nebraska	Crete Carrier Corporation	Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire
An employee was inflating the brake airbags on a lowboy trailer. The airbags blew and knocked the trailer off the jack or jack stands. The employee suffered broken ribs.
2019-07-09	Commack	New York	Simply Natural Foods LLC	Arm(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was loading 50-pound bags of chocolate into a commercial-grade mixer. The employee slipped and fell into the mixer, where the agitator broke the employee's left arm. The employee was hospitalized.
2019-06-25	Chester	Illinois	Gilster-Mary Lee Corporation	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was operating a bagging machine at a cereal plant. The machine's jaws (which shut and sealed bags) caught the employee's left index finger and amputated it.
2019-06-12	Dfw Airport	Texas	AMERICAN AIRLINES	Knee(s)	Struck by falling object or equipment
An employee was offloading bags when multiple bags fell and struck the employee's left knee, resulting in a possible infection to the knee joint.
2019-06-06	Westborough	Massachusett	CUMBERLAND FARMS, INC	Brain	Fall on same level due to slipping
An employee was walking in the production area while carrying bags of product. The employee slipped on water drainage from adjacent equipment that was being washed and fell striking their head on the floor. The employee was hospitalized.
2019-05-30	Kaukauna	Wisconsin	Round House Manor	Back, including spine, spinal cord	Overexertion in lifting-single episode
An employee was lifting bags of salt for a water softener when he suffered a back injury. He was hospitalized.
2019-05-22	Greenville	Alabama	Ozark Materials, LLC	BODY SYSTEMS	Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
An employee was filling bags with dry paint and had difficulty breathing. The employee experienced an allergic reaction to the paint.
2019-04-25	Pooler	Georgia	Sweetener Solutions, LLC	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was assisting the operator of a vertical form fill sealing (VFFS) machine. He was attempting to align the plastic bags for printing and using the machine activation button to jog the machine when the tip of his left middle finger was caught and amputated between the clamps.
2019-04-24	Ottawa	Illinois	Grainco FS Inc.	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was filling and sealing 50-pound bags of fertilizer. The employee was correcting the alignment of a bag going into the sealer unit when his right middle finger was caught. He suffered a fingertip amputation.
2019-03-26	Glenview	Illinois	VON MAUR, INC.	Leg(s)	Other fall to lower level
An employee was using the escalator to access the second floor while holding shopping bags when she fell down the escalator and fractured her right leg.
2019-03-22	Hazelton	West Virgini	Grant County Mulch, Inc.	Fingertip(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
An employee was loading a 400-pound roll of plastic bags into a bagging machine and pinched his right ring finger between the shaft and the cradle causing a fingertip amputation.
2019-03-21	Payette	Idaho	Seneca Foods	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area
The injured employee and a forklift operator were unloading bean totes out of rail cars. The totes are large fabric bags with fabric loops that are used to move the totes. The injured employee was guiding the forklift operator to place the forks into the tote's loops when the injured employee's right pinky finger was pinched between the forks and the loops resulting in a partial amputation.
2019-03-13	Belle Glade	Florida	TKM BENGARD FARMS, LLC	Leg(s)	Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object
An employee was driving a tractor along a farm road to collect bags of garbage. She stepped off the tractor and grabbed a trash bag from the ground. While getting back onto the tractor, she slipped and fell. The tractor tire ran over her leg, breaking it.
2019-02-23	Fort Morgan	Colorado	The Western Sugar Cooperative	Hand(s) and wrist(s)	Contact with hot objects or substances
An employee was changing filter bags on a pan water filter. As the employee was form-fitting the filter to the basket, 200-degree water flowed into the employee's glove, causing second degree burns (and a subsequent infection) to the employee's left wrist/hand.
2019-01-28	Stafford	Texas	UPS	Ankle(s)	Slip without fall, n.e.c.
An employee was setting up RNC (mesh) bags when she slipped on a bag and dislocated her left ankle, requiring hospitalization.
2019-01-17	Lawrenceville	Georgia	Valentine Enterprise, Inc.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was loading bags of powdered mixture into a sifter. While he was trying to retrieve a fallen box cutter from the hopper, the rotating blade in the hopper severely cut fingers on his right hand.
2019-01-10	Gadsden	Alabama	Inteva Products LLC	Hip(s)	Fall on same level, n.e.c.
An employee was walking through the front doors of the facility. She was holding the door with her left arm and holding two bags when her arm shifted downward, causing her to lose balance and fall to the floor. She suffered a left hip fracture.
2018-09-25	El Paso	Texas	Temporary Alternatives, Inc.	Hip(s)	Struck by falling object or equipment
A temporary employee was funneling cat litter into small bags when a sack of the cat litter fell on him. He suffered a broken right hip and was hospitalized.
2018-09-17	Kirksville	Missouri	Hollister, Incorporated	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was operating a bag-making machine. One of the bags had lodged at the point between the machine and the offloading chute. While the employee was trying to clear it, the machine cycled and the press plate closed, pinching and injuring her fingertip. The nail and a small part of the fingertip were torn off. The machine was guarded at the time of the incident.
2018-09-08	Tampa	Florida	American Airlines	Elbow(s)	Other fall to lower level
An employee was offloading bags from an aircraft when a bag became lodged at the top of the belt loader. The employee stood on a step and tried to dislodge the bag with one hand while holding a rail with the other hand. As the bag became dislodged, there was some spring action that caused the employee to lose footing and fall from the step to the concrete below. The employee fractured the left elbow.
2018-08-20	Meriden	Connecticut	Bob's Store Warehouse	Lower leg(s)	Compressed or pinched between two stationary objects
An employee was on a trailer at a loading dock helping to load some bags of merchandise when his foot went into the gap between the dock plate and the bay door, lacerating his left shin on the side of the bumper metal bracket that required stitches.
2018-08-17	Fort Worth	Texas	KERRY INC.	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was removing product bags from a conveyor when his right ring finger entered one of the belt connection holes, resulting in an avulsion the right ring fingertip.
2018-08-16	New Britain	Connecticut	Michael's Store #6762	Foot (feet)	Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area
On August 16, 2018, an employee was moving garbage bags near a dumpster when a waste hauler truck pushed the dumpster onto the employee's right foot. She suffered severe injuries to her foot that required surgery.
2018-08-06	Granbury	Texas	Fluor Corp.	Leg(s)	Injured by slipping or swinging object held by other person
A boat had capsized and 300 pounds of dead fish were on a shoreline. Employees were gathering the dead fish inside heavy-duty trash bags. A fish fin punctured through its bag while being carried by a coworker and struck the injured employee's leg. The employee's leg became swollen and the employee experienced a high temperature, requiring hospitalization.
2018-08-05	El Paso	Texas	Las Palmas Medical Center	Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Overexertion in lifting, lowering
After lifting heavy trash bags, an employee may have aggravated a recent surgical incision.
2018-07-30	Saint Joseph	Missouri	DUPONT*	Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Overexertion in lifting-multiple episodes
An employee was cutting open 50 lbs. bags of solids and emptying them into a screener with the use of a lift table and vacuum lift. The employee was hospitalized that evening for surgery to correct a hernia.
2018-07-25	East Syracuse	New York	Loomis Armored LLC	Fingertip(s)	Contact with objects and equipment
An employee was using a cart to deliver bags of coins to a bank. The employee's fingertip was amputated between the cart handle and the ground.
2018-07-12	Saint Louis	Missouri	Foundry Products, Inc.	Multiple body parts	Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
An employee was hand stacking pallets of bagged talc on a railroad car when the bags slid and fell on top of him. He fractured his right arm and two vertebrae.
2018-07-04	Lewistown	Pennsylvania	Trinity Plastics Incorporated	BODY SYSTEMS	Exposure to environmental heat
An employee had been working for 5 hours and was packing plastic bags into a case of finished product. The employee began cramping and feeling nauseated, possibly due to heat-related dehydration.
2018-06-27	Peoria	Illinois	Envoy Air, Inc.	Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Overexertion in lifting-single episode
An employee suffered a hernia rupture while loading bags from a conveyor onto a plane, requiring hospitalization and surgery.
2018-06-10	Middletown	Ohio	PAC Worldwide Corporation	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
On June 10, 2018, an employee was clearing a jam in the polybag machine. The machine cycled and the heated pins used to punch holes into the plastic bags amputated the tip of the employee's left index finger.
2018-06-05	Freeport	Texas	Stafflink, Inc.	BODY SYSTEMS	Exposure to environmental heat
An employee was stacking 50-pound bags on pallets when he became overheated from heat exhaustion.
2018-05-21	Fort Lauderdale	Florida	United Airlines Inc.	Ankle(s)	Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
An employee was driving a baggage tug to pick up bags from a default belt when the employee hit a pole outside the bag room. The employee's left foot made contact with the pole, fracturing the ankle.
2018-05-11	Cincinnati	Ohio	Ilsco Corporation	Forearm(s)	Fall on same level, n.e.c.
An employee was going to work carrying multiple bags and a newspaper. She was using her right arm to open the front door to enter the lobby when she lost her grip on the door, lost her balance, and then fell. She suffered a displaced right distal radius fracture with posttraumatic carpal tunnel syndrome.
2018-05-03	Arlington	Texas	Republic Services of Texas	Arm(s)	Other fall to lower level
An employee was picking up trash bags and was then attempting to climb up the back of a rear load trash truck to clean off the rear view camera when he slipped and fell due to wet conditions, breaking his left arm.
2018-05-02	Huntsville	Alabama	Volt Power, LLC	Nonclassifiable	Direct exposure to electricity
Three employees were removing sand bags after installing a steel pole when a digger truck boom contacted electrical wiring (phases), exposing them to an electrical current that burned them. Two employees were hospitalized.
2018-04-23	Savannah	Georgia	ARC Abatement, Inc.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Entangled in other object or equipment
An employee was using a rope and pulley system to lower asbestos bags from the seventh floor of a boiler when the rope (which was wet) slipped in his hands and looped around his right thumb, severely lacerating it and resulting in a surgical amputation at the first knuckle.
2018-03-11	Orlando	Florida	Menzies Aviation (USA) Inc.	Hand(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was placing bags on the belt loader at an airport ramp when his jacket sleeve was sucked in by the running belt on the belt loader. He attempted to remove his sleeve with his other hand and was caught by the belt, which removed skin and damaged the tendons on his left hand.
2018-03-05	North Canton	Ohio	PIEDMONT AIRLINES DBA U.S. AIRWAYS EXPRESS	Back, including spine, spinal cord	Overexertion in lifting-single episode
An employee was loading bags onto a plane when she felt discomfort in her back due to a spider fracture.
2018-03-02	Murrayville	Georgia	Fieldale Farms Corporation	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was manually feeding bags into a machine when his left index finger was caught and partially amputated between the machine's belt and sprocket.
2018-02-07	Foley	Alabama	The Talbots, Inc.	Hip(s)	Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
An employee was working behind the cash register, tripped over shopping bags on a hook and fell to the floor chipping her right hip bone. She also sustained contusions to her ribs and face.
2018-02-06	Muscle Shoals	Alabama	Alabama Painting Inc.	Fingertip(s)	Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
An employee was letting the air run through the bags on a vacuum truck when he adjusted the door to the truck and it slammed on his fingers. His middle fingertip was amputated.
2018-02-04	Avenel	New Jersey	Amazon Fulfillment, Inc.	Knee(s)	Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
An employee was moving air freight bags when he tripped on an air freight bag and fell to the floor, fracturing his kneecap.
2018-01-31	Godfrey	Illinois	IMC Outdoor Living	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
On January 31, 2017, an employee was installing a 4-inch by 4-inch board to flatten bags on a conveyor line when the employee's left hand was caught between the board and the conveyor amputating the left index finger to the first knuckle.
2018-01-28	Dfw Airport	Texas	American Airlines	Leg(s)	Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area
An employee was pulling passenger bags in the bag room when he was struck by a vehicle, breaking his left leg.
2018-01-22	Denver	Colorado	Menzies Aviation	Fingertip(s)	Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
An employee was loading bags onto an aircraft. He tried to stop the door to the aircraft from closing and missed. The door then closed onto his left index fingertip, severing it.
2017-10-11	Homosassa	Florida	TRACTOR SUPPLY COMPANY	Upper and lower limb(s)	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
After hand loading 7 bags of pelletized horse bedding into the bed of a customer's pickup truck, an employee fell as she was getting down from the bed of the truck. She fractured her left femur, radius, and ulna.
2017-09-11	Easton	Pennsylvania	Diamond Huntbach Construction Corp.	Brain	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
An employee was hanging glove bags on pipes when he fell 3 feet from a mobile scaffold and hit his head on the concrete floor.
2017-09-01	Donalsonville	Georgia	American Peanut Growers Group, LLC	Multiple lower extremities locations	Struck by object or equipment, n.e.c.
While employees were loading a shipping container with 2,200-pound tote bags of peanuts, an employee walked into the container to place a slip sheet on the floor. Before the employee exited the container, a forklift operator drove a forklift with a loaded tote bag into the container. The forklift set the tote bag down on the employee's leg, fracturing the leg, ankle, and toes. The employee was hospitalized overnight.
2017-08-23	Orlando	Florida	Universal Orlando Resort	Ankle(s)	Fall on same level due to slipping
An employee was stepping on plastic bags on the floor when he fell, breaking his ankle and requiring hospitalization/surgery.
2017-08-16	Cuyahoga Falls	Ohio	A T & T	Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Other fall to lower level
An employee slipped and fell down 13 steps while walking down stairs carrying tools and bags. The employee suffered a punctured lung and was hospitalized.
2017-08-03	Jerome	Idaho	Agropur Inc.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Nonclassifiable
An employee was moving an empty pallet jack used to hoist bags of whey to a platform when her hand was caught between the jack and a safety rail, crushing her right index finger. Her finger had to be surgically amputated below the first joint.
2017-07-25	Rapid City	South Dakota	TCC Materials, LLC	Forearm(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was bagging cement and sending the bags via conveyor to a robot. A rock fell onto the conveyor. The employee attempted to remove the rock and an arm was caught by the robot. Both bones in the employee's left forearm were fractured requiring surgery and hospitalization.
2017-07-18	Cincinnati	Ohio	Crothall Health Care	Forearm(s)	Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c.
An employee was pulling IV bags from a gray bin. While he was trying to shut the lid, he found that there was air in the bag. As he was attempting to release the air from the bag, he received a puncture wound to the left forearm.
2017-07-14	Lincoln	Nebraska	Packers Sanitation Services, Inc. LLC	Fingertip(s)	Contact with objects and equipment
An employee was changing bags on a bag tail blower on a packaging machine. While she was unhooking a bag from the blower, the blower motor lacerated her right index finger. Her finger had to be amputated at the fingernail.
2017-07-13	Crossett	Arkansas	Hood Packaging Corporation	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was attempting to run paper bags through a printing press. He jogged the paper into place. His left hand was on the press cylinder when it rolled, amputating his left thumb below the nail bed and crushing his left index and middle fingers.
2017-06-29	New Braunfels	Texas	Producers Cooperavtive Marketing Association	Lower leg(s)	Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
An employee was descending a staircase after dislodging feed bags that were stuck on a conveyor when he fell approximately 6 feet and his right leg struck a cattle scale, breaking it above the ankle and requiring surgery/hospitalization.
2017-06-21	Hazleton	Pennsylvania	Vita-Line Products Inc	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was operating a machine that converts plastic film into bags. The employee was attempting to adjust the plastic when his right hand was caught between the machine's heat sealer and cutter, amputating his right index finger from the first joint up to the fingertip.
2017-06-01	Sauget	Illinois	Veolia ES Techical Solutions, L.L.C.	Multiple trunk locations	Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway
An employee was operating a sit-down forklift and transporting large tote bags filled with product to be incinerated. As the forklift was making a 90-degree right turn, it tipped over onto its left side and the employee fell from the driver seat and was pinned under the overhead guard. The employee suffered crushing injuries to the torso and legs including two broken femurs, eight broken ribs, two collapsed lungs, four injured vertebrae, lacerations to the liver, intestine, and vein to lower ext
2017-05-16	Scranton	Pennsylvania	Aramark	Back, including spine, spinal cord	Overexertion in holding, carrying, or wielding-single episode
An employee was carrying bags of garbage to put into a dumpster outside the facility when he had back spasms and was hospitalized.
2017-05-16	Gering	Nebraska	Kelley Bean Co.	Wrist(s)	Other fall to lower level
An employee was stacking bags of beans in a railcar and was standing on them when the stack shifted and he fell to the railcar floor. He suffered a lacerated forehead and fractured right wrist, requiring overnight hospitalization.
2017-04-04	Atlanta	Georgia	Delta Air Lines, Inc	Knee(s)	Overexertion involving outside sources
An employee was taking bags off a pier and loading them onto a cart when the employee dislocated their right knee.
2017-02-16	Coatesville	Pennsylvania	Eagle Disposal of Pennsylvania, Inc.	Foot (feet)	Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area
On February 16, 2017, at approximately 8:30 AM, an employee and a coworker were walking along the right side of a trash truck, picking up trash bags and containers. His coworker picked up a large trash bag, swung it around, and accidentally struck him, causing him to lose his balance. The truck's rear tires then ran over both his ankles and feet. He suffered left foot fractures and bruises/cuts to his right foot, requiring hospitalization.