| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-01 | Slidell | La | Texas Roadhouse | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was using a blender to blend macaroni and cheese and amputated his thumb. | |||||
| 2021-08-20 | New Lisbon | Wi | Mill Haven Foods, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was checking to see if product was flowing through a blender. When the power to the blender was turned off, the pneumatic fly gate valve closed on the employee's left hand and amputated three fingertips. | |||||
| 2021-07-07 | Schulenburg | Tx | Dairy Farmers of America | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was preparing to clean a ribbon blender. The blender's lid came down on the employee's left ring finger, amputating the fingertip. | |||||
| 2020-10-07 | Ridgway | Pa | Advantage Metal Powders, Inc. | Forearm(s) | Overexertion in pushing, pulling, or turning-single episode |
| An employee was opening the gate/door to empty a load with the wheel handle beneath a powder blender when he felt pain in his right forearm. The employee was hospitalized for a muscle tear that required surgery. | |||||
| 2020-06-03 | West Seneca | New York | Rosina Food Products, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning a cheese blender when it partially amputated three of the employee's fingers. | |||||
| 2020-05-13 | Emporia | Kansas | S&S Quality Meats | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was operating a blender in a kitchen production area. The employee was removing a stuck piece of chicken when a paddle inside the machine pinched off the tip of the employee's left thumb. | |||||
| 2020-05-01 | Lavonia | Georgia | Greif Inc | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was working on a blow mold machine. While he was cleaning out a mixing/blender cylinder, the mixer lacerated his arm. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2020-03-18 | Brunswick | Georgia | Rich Products Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee had been unloading cheese from a blender. The employee was holding two buttons used to control the cheese blender paddles/manually jog the equipment. The employee let go of the buttons and went to grab a piece of cheese that was stuck in the blender. There was a 4-second delay after letting go of the buttons before the paddles completely stopped moving. The employee's hand contacted the still moving paddles. The employee sustained an amputation to the corner of the left pinky fingert | |||||
| 2019-07-25 | Orlando | Florida | Blaze Pizza LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker |
| An employee was rinsing the immersion blender when it slipped from her hands and she tried to catch it. Her right ring finger was caught in the blender and sustained a partial amputation. | |||||
| 2019-07-16 | Bentonville | Arkansas | UNITED INDUSTRIES | Arm(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| While removing material from a blender that had a malfunction, an employee sustained a fracture and laceration to the right arm. | |||||
| 2019-07-15 | Sandusky | Ohio | THORWORKS INDUSTRIES, INC. | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| On July 15, 2019, an employee fell into a ribbon blender while taking a sample resulting in a broken right leg and ankle. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-07-14 | Missoula | Montana | Elite One Source | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was greasing a chain on a 5 cubic-foot blender. The employee's hand was caught in the chain and sprocket resulting in a partial amputation of three fingers on the right hand. | |||||
| 2019-05-27 | Decatur | Texas | Basic Energy Services | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| While conducting fracking operations, an employee was digging out sand from the auger to a blender when the auger released and struck the employee's left middle finger, resulting in a laceration and amputation of the fingertip. | |||||
| 2019-05-16 | Grand Prairie | Texas | Poly-America | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee suffered the amputation of the right middle fingertip while installing a chain over a drive gear sprocket on the ribbon blender. | |||||
| 2019-02-06 | Washington | West Virgini | Polymer Alliance Services, LLC. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| At about 8:45 p.m. on February 6, 2019, an employee was operating a blow bagger. The employee noticed that the blender, which is operated in close proximity to the bagger, no longer had material flowing from the valve. The employee was investigating this issue and amputated his left hand in the rotating blade in the valve. | |||||
| 2019-01-29 | Granite City | Illinois | Baily International | Hand(s) and finger(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee had just completed mixing the ingredients and was dumping the mix into a tote. The tote was placed under the ribbon blender and the two discharge doors were opened. The blender pushes the product out the discharge doors and into the totes. Towards the end of this process, the employee noticed a small pile of product inside the discharge door. She attempted to knock it into the tote, at which time, the blender rotated around and caught her right hand between the edge of the discharge | |||||
| 2019-01-20 | Brownfield | Texas | Haliburton Energy Services | Arm(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| A piece of plumbing was being removed from a piece of equipment (blender) between the discharge pump and the tub. The piece of plumbing slipped out of the clamp and fell onto an employee's right arm, fracturing it. | |||||
| 2019-01-18 | Palmyra | Missouri | Doyle Equipment Manufacturing | Coccygeal region | Fall, slip, trip |
| An employee was unbolting a hopper on a vertical fertilizer blender so that it could be loaded for transportation. When all the bolts except the corner bolts had been taken off, the top corner bolts pulled though the rusted angle iron (and welds broke on the angle iron itself), causing a motion that sent the employee back and to the ground. The employee suffered a broken coccyx. | |||||
| 2019-01-17 | Pocatello | Idaho | Amys Kitchen Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was emptying basil from a blender and amputated their right middle finger. A guard was in place at the time. | |||||
| 2018-08-28 | Cartersville | Georgia | Floor Pro Packaging Inc | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was filling boxes under the chute of a ribbon blender when his hand entered the chute and was pinched in the machinery, resulting in a right hand amputation. The ribbon blender was in operation at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2018-08-27 | Omaha | Nebraska | SKYLARK MEATS | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was using a hook to unjam the discharge auger of a meat blender. The auger actuated, pinning his right hand in the discharge chute and impaling it. | |||||
| 2018-08-12 | Midland | Texas | Pioneer Natural Resources USA, Inc. | Arm(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was descending a fixed ladder on the side of a blender when he attempted to step down to the next step and his hand slipped. He then fell 1 to 2 feet to the ground and tried to stop himself with his right hand, resulting in a fractured right arm. | |||||
| 2018-07-07 | New Martinsville | West Virgini | Southwestern Energy Company | Multiple body parts | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was operating a blender. Noticing that a booster pump was running, he began walking toward it to turn it off. The booster pump deadheaded, causing pressure and steam to build up in the line, and as the employee approached an 8-inch suction hose broke loose from the pump and struck him in the lower left leg. He suffered a compound fracture to the left leg and second-degree steam burns to the torso. | |||||
| 2018-05-16 | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | HVL, LLC | Arm(s) | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
| An employee's right arm was struck by a valve discharge door while emptying out a blender, suffering a contusion. | |||||
| 2018-05-07 | Harrison | Arkansas | Innovative Formulations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| An employee was dumping powdered sugar into a portable oscillating blender. A tag was dropped into the machine. The employee attempted to remove the tag and the blender pulled the employee's left hand between the metal bars and a screen, resulting in two broken fingers. The machine was running at the time. | |||||
| 2018-04-06 | Springfield | Missouri | SELECT BRANDS LLC | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was lifting a metal grate off the top of a ribbon blender when the grate slipped. The employee almost dropped the grate, which tipped toward the back of the ribbon blender. His hand slipped down to the bottom of the grate where his finger became pinched between the grate and the stop point of the gate. His left small fingertip was amputated. | |||||
| 2018-03-30 | Crete | Illinois | Dutch American Foods Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee's right hand was inside a pneumatic-powered slide gate of a blender clearing debris when the slide gate valve amputated the employee's index finger. | |||||
| 2018-02-18 | Kermit | Texas | ProPetro Services, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Struck by object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was walking over to check for leaks on a gauge. The employee noticed three lines/hoses had collapsed. The blender was on and when the valve opened 100 pounds of pressure hit the hoses causing them to jump up and strike the employee breaking the right tibia and fibula. | |||||
| 2018-02-11 | Jamestown | New York | Borsari Food Co. | Wrist(s) and arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee's arm entered the running ribbon blender resulting in a broken wrist, a broken arm bone and tissue damage. | |||||
| 2018-01-19 | Huntington Station | New York | L.I. Child and Family Development Services Inc., dba Long Island Head Start | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a food blender and amputated her left middle finger to the first knuckle and sustained lacerations to two other fingers on the left hand. | |||||
| 2018-01-03 | Clarksville | Arkansas | Bright Harvest Sweet Potato Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee turned off an auger at the bottom of a ribbon blender to find pieces of a plastic bucket lift that had broken and fallen into the ribbon blender. The employee went around and had opened the drain cover of the auger to retrieve the pieces when the auger activated and amputated the employee's left thumb. The auger was not locked out/tagged out at the time. | |||||
| 2017-10-09 | Brownsville | Texas | Sodexo Services of Texas LTD Partnership | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a blender machine. As she pushed an onion through the processor, her right middle finger was amputated. | |||||
| 2017-09-27 | Trenton | Missouri | CONAGRA FOODS | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was using a scouring pad to clean out meat in the door of a blender when the employee's left middle finger was caught in the blender ribbons, amputating the distal tip. The blender was not locked out at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2017-09-24 | Sioux Falls | South Dakota | Smithfield Foods | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning a sausage ribbon blender when it engaged, amputating the employee's right index finger. | |||||
| 2017-06-25 | Plymouth | Wisconsin | Sartori Company Inc. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was operating a blender when cheese became caught in the blender's discharge door. He was attempting to unjam the cheese blockage when a coworker noticed the blender was in the fault state and reset the fault, causing the blender to run while the employee's hand was in the discharge door. The blender crushed the employee's right hand, breaking and lacerating it. The blender was not locked/tagged out at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2017-06-21 | Lolita | Texas | Inteplast Group | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee went to check a time-out on a blender tank that was jammed. He was trying to clear the jam when the blender's slide gate closed on and amputated his left ring, middle, and pointer fingertips. The blender cover was removed at the time of the incident. An employee was collecting plastic sheets from a table and got his finger caught on the green band on the table roller resulting in amputation of the right pinky finger. Note to user: This record contains two separate events that w | |||||
| 2017-06-18 | Crane | Texas | Crudd Pumping Services | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| An employee was exposed to hydrochloric acid vapors while operating a blender. | |||||
| 2017-06-13 | South Sioux City | Nebraska | CHS Inc | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| An employee was inspecting a rotary feeder when his hand contacted the moving blender, amputating his thumb tip and his index, middle, and ring fingertips. | |||||
| 2017-03-30 | New Haven | Connecticut | Hummel Bros. Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was cleaning a blender machine and amputated his left ring finger, a portion of his left middle finger, and lacerated his left index finger. The blender machine was operating at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2017-03-13 | Cincinnati | Ohio | ZWANENBERG FOOD GROUP (USA) INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was using a meat blender when the blade amputated the employee's right ring finger. | |||||
| 2017-03-03 | Longview | Texas | Brinker International LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was using a blender and as he pushed cilantro into the blender he suffered the partial amputation of his right middle and index fingers. | |||||
| 2016-08-29 | Maumelle | Arkansas | Imbibitive Manufacturing, Inc. (Imbicor) | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was using an industrial blender to screen beads. The employee reached into the bottom of the blender and contacted the rotating blades resulting in a laceration to the middle finger and an amputation of the index finger at the middle joint. | |||||
| 2016-08-09 | Union | New Jersey | MORRE-TEC INDUSTRIES INC | Hand(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee injured his hand when it was caught in a ribbon blender. | |||||
| 2016-07-28 | Corinth | Mississippi | Mississippi Polymers, INC. | Hand(s), except finger(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning a blender with the air-actuated discharge valve open for cleaning inside the blender. The employee's right hand was inside the opening with a rag. The switch that opened and closed the valve was bumped, and the valve gate closed on her right hand. The injury was just above the knuckles. She was hospitalized for surgery. | |||||
| 2016-07-23 | Green Bay | Wisconsin | GREEN BAY DRESSED BEEF PROCESSING | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was trying to install a plug on a blender conveyor to stop meat trimmings from going into the blender. Her fingers then came in contact with the conveyor paddle of the conveyor, amputating a portion of the third finger (from the fingernail to the tip) and causing an avulsion to the second finger. | |||||
| 2016-06-13 | Saint Henry | Ohio | Cooper Farms, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On June 13, 2016, an employee was attempting to remove meat from the discharge door of a blender when the blender paddles caught and amputated the employee's left middle finger. | |||||
| 2016-03-23 | Millwood | West Virgini | Star Plastics, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| On March 23, 2016, at approximately 1:30 a.m., an employee was cleaning out a vertical blender. When she opened a 10-inch x 10-inch door on the side of the blender, her right hand was caught between the side of the blender and the moving auger, amputating four fingers. The machine was energized at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2016-02-16 | Fort Atkinson | Wisconsin | Jones Dairy Farm | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was engaged in sanitation of the meat blender in the blend room and amputated the right thumb. | |||||
| 2016-02-05 | Altus | Oklahoma | Bar-S Foods Co. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was cleaning the blender auger and slipped and fell, hitting the framework of the equipment and fracturing ribs. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2016-01-18 | Center Hill | Florida | Quality Value Excellent Sanitation Team | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was working from a ladder scrubbing the frame wall of a blender machine when he lost his balance and fell into the blender. He amputated the first two toes on his right foot. | |||||
| 2015-12-29 | Grand Island | New York | ISLECHEM, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An operator was packing out powders from the bottom spout on a ribbon blender. The gate valve on the spout became clogged. The employee reached into the spout while the blender was running resulting in the amputation of their left middle, ring and index fingers. | |||||
| 2015-08-27 | King Of Prussia | Pennsylvania | PACKERS SANITATION SERVICES, INC. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning a trim blender while it was running and amputated the left index fingertip. | |||||
| 2015-08-15 | Fort Worth | Texas | Packers Sanitation Services, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee's finger was amputated while removing the sample port from a blender during cleaning activities. The blender was running at the time. | |||||
| 2015-08-03 | Marshall | Missouri | CONAGRA FOODS | Fingertip(s) | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
| An employee was attempting to take a sample from the brownie blender. He lifted the lid of the blender. The lid came down and struck his right ring finger, amputating the fingertip. | |||||
| 2015-07-23 | New Oxford | Pennsylvania | Hain Pure Protein | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee walked into the ground area where the operator was using a two-hand control to run the mixer/blender. The employee's hand reached into the blender, and his thumb tip was severed off. | |||||
| 2015-06-06 | Durant | Oklahoma | ETS LINDGREN L.P. | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was cleaning a ribbon blender. He had the lid open, thus disengaging the interlock switch and disabling the rotating paddles. After he finished cleaning it, he closed the lid. The blender has a discharge hole at the bottom; unaware that the paddles in the blender were still rotating at a slow rate, the employee reached up through the discharge hole. The paddle amputated the tip of his index finger. | |||||
| 2015-06-05 | Moorefield | West Virgini | Pilgrim's | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On June 5, 2015, at approximately 11:45 a.m., an employee was working with blenders that are used to grind meat. An opening on the bottom of the grinder allows ground meat to fall into a buggy. The employee reached to remove a small portion of meat and his left hand made contact with an energized, rotating auger. | |||||
| 2015-03-17 | Grove City | Ohio | Sherwin Williams | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Nonclassifiable |
| An employee was injured by the blender lid-locking mechanism located in the bonding area. The employee fractured three right-hand fingers, requiring overnight hospitalization. | |||||