Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-07-02 | Schwertner | Tx | SCHWERTNER FARMS, INC. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was dropping cubes from the flatbed truck to feed cattle. As the employee was clearing out a cake, the hopper door came down and amputated the employee's left index fingertip. | |||||
2021-03-01 | Reynoldsburg | Oh | OBERFIELD'S, INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was waiting for a boom operator to finish setting a cube of 90 concrete blocks measuring 8x8x16 inches onto another cube. The cube bumped into another cube that was already on the ground, causing some of the blocks to fall off the cube and strike the employee's right hand, resulting in broken index and middle fingers. | |||||
2021-02-01 | Denver | Co | Empire Packing Company, L.P. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was feeding a cube steak into the tenderizer on the beef line. The employee's right hand was caught in the tenderizer, resulting in the amputation of the middle finger. | |||||
2020-09-03 | Naples | Fl | Sunniland Corporation | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was on a flatbed truck and was using a center-mounted conveyor belt. As the employee was loading a cube of foam insulation onto the conveyor belt, the cube rolled back onto the truck. The employee stepped to the side to avoid the cube and fell 52 inches off the truck to the ground. The employee sustained a broken right leg and a bruised right shoulder. | |||||
2020-08-31 | Minford | Oh | Deemus Groceries II Dba Minford IGA | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was feeding meat into a meat cuber when the employee's gloved fingers were pulled into the meat cuber, resulting in an amputation of the left index finger. | |||||
2020-06-11 | Houston | Texas | IEC US Holdings Inc | Multiple body parts | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee walked into her cube, tripped over her chair, and hit her eye on her chair leg. She was hospitalized with a broken left leg and a right eye injury that required surgery. | |||||
2020-03-11 | Arcadia | Florida | THE QUIKRETE HOLDINGS, INC. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
An employee was visually inspecting a faulty part for the cuber carrier. The employee had stepped out of the basket into the frame when the cuber carrier moved, causing him to lose balance and fall 12 to 13 feet onto a slat conveyor. The employee sustained fractures to the left wrist and left hip. Fall protection was not worn at the time of the incident. | |||||
2019-07-11 | Greeley | Colorado | All American Pet Proteins, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c. |
An employee was loading a block (meat ice cube) onto a conveyor. Their left ring and pinky fingers were smashed under the block and fractured, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2019-04-19 | Gallipolis | Ohio | OHIO VALLEY PIGGLY WIGGLY | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was using a meat cuber when the employee's glove was caught in the cuber, pulling the employee's left hand into the cuber and resulting in a ring finger amputation at the first knuckle. | |||||
2017-09-19 | Valley | Nebraska | Midwest Manufacturing Corporation | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
An employee was working near a cuber machine when it actuated and came down on him, injuring his abdomen. The cuber was guarded with a safety fence at the time. | |||||
2017-08-02 | Crete | Nebraska | BUNGE MILLIG, INC. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was attempting to retrieve a sifter cube from a roll stand containing two inward moving feeder rolls. The employee's right hand became caught between the feeder roll and the feeder roll guard. The employee was able to pull his hand free, but sustained a crushing injury to the hand. | |||||
2017-07-06 | Gainesville | Georgia | Prime Pak Foods Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was using a pair of pliers to clear jammed chicken from a cuber machine when the employee's left hand was pulled into the machine's knives, lacerating and partially amputating the ring and pinky fingers. | |||||
2017-04-29 | Olathe | Kansas | SPX Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was dropping a fill cube into a basin when it was caught on bolts installed inside the basin. He pushed on the fill cube with his hand to free the fill cube. When the cube was freed it pinched his right hand between the casing panel and the basin, amputating his right index fingertip. | |||||
2017-02-02 | Leeds | Alabama | Mitchell Grocery Corp. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was feeding product into a machine that cubes/tenderizes meat when his right hand was pulled into the machine, partially amputating his middle and ring fingers. | |||||
2016-08-01 | Goliad | Texas | Holt Texas, LTD. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee and a coworker were trying to hitch a cube wagon to feed cattle. The hitch would not latch onto the ball of the vehicle, so the employee used his finger to check what was causing the problem. The hitch latched onto the ball while his finger was caught in between, amputating his left index fingertip. | |||||
2016-05-06 | Canton | Ohio | Profile Products, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was attempting to unjam material on an auger of the cuber when the machine activated and amputated two fingertips between the belt and the pulley. | |||||
2015-11-15 | Lakeland | Florida | Tremron Lakeland, LLC | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee suffered several broken vertebrae after being struck by a "cuber" machine while repositioning brick pavers on a board. | |||||
2015-05-21 | Ephrata | Pennsylvania | Redners Markets, Inc. | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
A bag of ice on a pallet in the walk-in freezer had a tear, and some of its ice cubes fell onto the floor. An employee went into the walk-in freezer to get product and stepped onto one of the ice cubes, causing the employee to slip, fall, and break the right hip. |