| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-29 | Conneaut | Oh | Lukjan Metal Products North Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee's hand got stuck in a crimping machine, resulting in partial amputation of her left ring finger. | |||||
| 2021-09-18 | South Plainfield | Nj | Keystone Plastics, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee's finger was caught between the crimping rollers on the extrusion line while removing a jam, resulting in an amputation and hospitalization. | |||||
| 2021-08-24 | Auburn | Al | PYONGSAN AMERICA, INC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| A temporary employee was operating a crimping machine and caught his right index finger in the machine resulting in a laceration. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-06-14 | Tupelo | Ms | MDR Construction, Inc. | Jaw, chin | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker |
| A crimping gun fell out of an employee's tool bag and recoiled after hitting the ground. It struck the employee's chin, fracturing the jaw. | |||||
| 2021-05-26 | Del Rio | Tx | Backer Marathon | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was crimping heaters, which were not staying in place. As she tried to fix them, a crimper crushed the tip of her finger, causing a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2020-09-30 | Clearwater | Fl | Endo-Therapeutics, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| A trainer was training a new employee on how to use a crimping machine. While the trainer was reaching to grab a device, the machine was activated and amputated the employee's right index fingertip. | |||||
| 2020-09-24 | Waukesha | Wi | Genco Industries, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee's right middle fingertip was amputated while working on a crimping machine. | |||||
| 2020-02-06 | Freeport | Illinois | Honeywell International, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was crimping wire ends. The handle on the crimper machine kept getting stuck; as the employee tried to get it to release, it smashed and lacerated the employee's left middle finger. | |||||
| 2019-07-08 | Mathis | Texas | Wanzek Construction | Nonclassifiable | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| An employee was using a handheld hydraulic crimping tool. A hose failed and injected the employee's left flank with hydraulic fluid. | |||||
| 2019-05-31 | Stuttgart | Arkansas | LENNOX INDUSTRIES, INC. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was crimping wire terminals using a crimping machine. As she was fixing a jam, the machine crushed a finger on her left hand, causing the amputation of the tip. The machine was guarded at the time. | |||||
| 2019-01-28 | Franklin | Pennsylvania | Honeywell Safety Products | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| Two maintenance employees were working together replacing a shaft pin, bushings, and spacers on a crimping machine. While they were attempting to lower the top half via a crane into the bottom half, the parts became misaligned. The first employee used his finger to feel inside the shaft hole and determine why it was not fitting together. The second employee, who was at the controls of the hoist, lifted the part, causing the very tip of the first employee's left index finger to become caught. The | |||||
| 2018-08-30 | Fort Myers | Florida | B&I Contractors, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was attempting to clear a jam from a crimping machine. When the employee removed the jammed material, the machine began to operate and amputated the employee's left thumb tip. The machine was not locked/tagged out at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2018-07-11 | Hampshire | Illinois | American Precision Assemblers, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was crimping terminals on a mechanical power press when the press amputated the employee's left index finger. | |||||
| 2018-07-10 | Midland | Texas | Magnum MRO Systems, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was changing a die in a hose crimping machine. The machine cycled while his right hand was in contact with it. The fingers on his right hand suffered severe damage: his index finger was pinned and stitched with permanent loss of the fingernail, his middle and ring fingers were amputated to the second joint, and his little finger was amputated to the first joint. | |||||
| 2017-08-25 | Paulding | Ohio | INSOURCE TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On August 25, 2017, an employee was tasked with using a crimping machine to attach terminals to the ends of wires. The employee was able to fit their finger into the area where the terminal is crimped onto the wire end. The employee was attempting to push the wire into the holder to be crimped when the foot pedal was engaged activating the machine and amputating the employee's left index fingertip. The machine was not guarded at the time. | |||||
| 2017-08-18 | Hillsboro | Ohio | SEAL TITE LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On 8/18/2017, an employee was operating a sheet metal electric power rotary beading and crimping machine to make collars. The employee's leather glove was caught between the roller and the crimping of the machine wheel, and the left index finger was amputated. | |||||
| 2017-06-05 | Laurel | Mississippi | HOWARD INDUSTRIES INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was checking the placement of a wire in a hydraulic crimping tool when the tool was activated and partially amputated her left thumb. | |||||
| 2017-03-11 | Mount Vernon | Ohio | Heating & Cooling Products | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee's right index finger was caught and amputated in a rolling/crimping machine. | |||||
| 2017-02-07 | Davidsville | Pennsylvania | Nammo Talley Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee suffered a right index fingertip amputation while repairing a crimping machine. | |||||
| 2016-08-08 | Fulton | Mississippi | MUELLER COPPER TUBE CO., INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was crimping tube on a block machine when his left-hand ring finger was caught, crushed, and amputated in the clamps. | |||||
| 2016-08-01 | Denver | Colorado | Mile High Equipment | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee's thumb tip was amputated while feeding wire into a crimping machine. | |||||
| 2016-06-30 | Sugar Hill | Georgia | U-TECH CONSTRUCTION, INC. | Multiple body parts | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| An employee was performing a hot splice, hooking up temporary power to residential construction from a main distribution using a crimping tool when an arc flash occurred. He sustained second degree burns on his left arm and first and second degree burns on his face. | |||||
| 2015-12-08 | Twin Falls | Idaho | Intermountain Erectors, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| While crimping decking sheets, an employee stepped backwards and fell 14 feet from the first level deck to the concrete below. The employee fractured the right fibula/tibia. | |||||
| 2015-10-15 | Massena | New York | Alcoa Forging & Extrusion | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Overexertion in pushing, pulling, or turning-single episode |
| An employee was using a manual crimping tool to bend scrap coils. While using an upward pulling motion to crimp the clip, he felt pain in his abdomen and suffered a right-side abdominal hernia. | |||||
| 2015-06-07 | Bloomingdale | Illinois | Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On Sunday June 7, 2015, at approximately 4:55 p.m., an employee on the production floor was operating a crimper machine, which is a wire connector crimping machine operated by an unguarded foot pedal. The injured employee was hand-feeding wire pieces into the point of operation when she inadvertently pressed a foot pedal with her right-hand index finger, resulting in an amputation. The point of operation was unguarded at the time. | |||||
| 2015-05-28 | Streetsboro | Ohio | DELTA Systems Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee reached into a crimping machine to unjam product prior to the machine cycling back around to crimp the product and sustained a right index fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2015-04-06 | Limerick | Pennsylvania | Marine Acquisition Corporation US | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was feeding cable into the nut tester machine, which has crimp jaws. He held the cable with his left hand and used his right hand to hit the two-hand control, causing the crimping jaws to amputate his middle fingertip. | |||||