| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-11 | Loveland | Oh | Tru-Seam Metal Solutions, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was putting blanks from aluminum downspouts in a rollforming machine when a blade contacted their left thumb, resulting in a fingertip amputation. The machine was unguarded at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2020-10-20 | Tampa | Fl | North Star & Associates, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating the downspout gutter machine and amputated a fingertip. | |||||
| 2020-02-27 | Fenton | Missouri | Scott Lee Guttering | Head and trunk | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was installing gutters on a newly constructed residential dwelling. The employee was climbing a portable extension ladder to install a downspout over the garage and fell approximately 10 feet head-first onto the concrete driveway. The employee sustained a skull fracture, swelling of the brain, eight broken ribs and a collapsed lung and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-05-08 | Odessa | Florida | AMERICAN CUSTOM GUTTERING, INC. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee was installing a downspout from a ladder. The ladder was leaning on the side wall of a two-story house. The employee dropped the downspout and tried to catch it with his foot. The employee lost balance and tried to get his foot on the ladder, but missed the rung. The employee fell 12 - 15 feet from the ladder to the mulch bed resulting in fractures to his left arm, the first two left ribs and left scapula. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2016-02-01 | Mellette | South Dakota | South Dakota Wheat Growers | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee attempted to walk around a downspout in the parking lot. When she stepped down from the sidewalk, she slipped on ice and fell, fracturing her right ankle. | |||||
| 2015-04-13 | Byram | Mississippi | Duro-Last Roofing, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was helping a press break operator form a piece of sheet metal for a gutter downspout. The operator and the employee placed the sheet metal into the break press and aligned the markings that were on the sheet metal under the press bar for the proper bends. After the sheet metal was aligned in the press, the operator activated it at the control panel. The employee's right hand was in the press, and his two middle fingers were amputated at the first joint. | |||||