| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-07-30 | Dayton | Ohio | Tate & Lyle | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was lowering a 120-pound helical screw into a centrifuge using a chain fall suspended from an I-beam. When the screw fell quickly into place, the employee's right ring finger was caught between it and the shaft. The fingertip was amputated. | |||||
| 2019-06-04 | Blossburg | Pennsylvania | Hydro Recovery LP | Fingertip(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker |
| On June 4, 2019, at approximately 11:45 AM, an employee was judging the weight of a piece of metal (solid slag metal for centrifuge) by lifting it. The metal piece slipped and fell catching the employee's left index finger between the metal and the ground or pallet jack and caused a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2019-04-05 | Guymon | Oklahoma | Seaboard Foods | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was shutting down a centrifuge for cleaning when it broke off the points just above where it was bolted to the floor. A piece of it struck the employee's chest, causing a cut and injuries. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-01-14 | Southard | Oklahoma | U.S. Gypsum Southern | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was manually clearing a clog in a centrifuge machine when his fingers were caught and crushed between the dryer mechanism and the centrifuge, ripping the skin and meat off and leaving the bone. As a result, his right middle and ring fingers had to be surgically amputated. | |||||
| 2018-07-25 | Groton | South Dakota | POET Biorefining Groton | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c. |
| An employee was replacing gaskets on a disc stack centrifuge and using a specialized tool to pull the disc stack when the employee's left ring finger was caught between the tool and the stack, resulting in a partial distal amputation of the left ring fingertip. | |||||
| 2018-07-13 | Bensenville | Illinois | Aaron Equipment Co., Inc. | Forearm(s) | Explosion |
| The injured employee was using an oxy-acetylene torch to remove one of the legs from the outside of a centrifuge (used process equipment). After 10-15 minutes, the injured employee began having issues with the torch. He paused his work briefly and a second employee came over to assist with lighting the torch. Once the torch was relit, the injured employee resumed cutting activities on the centrifuge and an explosion/fireball occurred. The injured employee sustained severe burns to his forearms a | |||||
| 2018-04-03 | Big Lake | Texas | DCS All American, LLC | Buttock(s) | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee was working on a centrifuge on top of a centrifuge stand. The employee lost footing while stepping down from the centrifuge and fell backward into the handrails. The hand rails gave out, causing the employee to fall approximately 12 to 15 feet to the ground. The employee suffered bruised muscles and a pinched nerve in the buttocks. | |||||
| 2016-06-01 | Greeley | Colorado | JBS SWIFT | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was investigating the cause of a mechanical malfunction on a centrifuge used to process waste water. While the employee was pulling on a belt and pulley mechanism, the weight of the belt crushed the employee's left index finger, requiring surgery and overnight hospitalization. | |||||
| 2015-01-22 | Middlebourne | West Virgini | Baker Hughes Oilfield | Nonclassifiable | Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet |
| On January 22, 2015, an employee was hospitalized after falling 12 feet to the ground through a 2' x 3' opening in a centrifuge stand. | |||||