Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-11-16 | Demopolis | Al | Westrock Mill Company, LLC | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was walking in a pulp dryer area when he slipped and fell to the floor, resulting in a fractured right hip. | |||||
2021-11-15 | Cincinnati | Oh | Patheon Pharmaceuticals Inc. | Arm(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
An employee was helping to move a fluid bed dryer when an internal mechanical lifting device failed and a piece of equipment struck the employee's arm. The employee sustained torn muscles, requiring surgery. | |||||
2021-11-04 | Marseilles | Il | GLEN-GERY CORPORATION | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
On November 4, 2021, at approximately 10:30 AM, an employee connected a chain to a flat railroad car and transfer puller that pulls kiln cars out of a dryer. As the transfer car was pulling the drying car, the chain came loose and the employee reached to grab the moving chain. The chain snagged and became tight, and the employee's thumb was caught between the chain links. The employee was hospitalized for a deep laceration to his thumb that required surgery. | |||||
2021-11-02 | Parma | Oh | AMAC Enterprises Inc | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was using an air chain hoist to remove the basket from a plating line dryer. The employee's left fourth finger got caught in the air chain hoist's chain, resulting in a fingertip amputation and the loss of the fingernail. | |||||
2021-10-30 | Whitewater | Wi | S & R Egg Farm, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
Two employees were removing a manure belt from a dryer. When the injured employee grabbed the cable slack, his right index finger was pulled into the reel and amputated at the first knuckle. | |||||
2021-10-08 | Bridgeton | Mo | Penske Logistics | Head and neck | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
When an employee opened the doors of a trailer, a dislodged, packaged dryer fell out of the trailer onto his neck and head. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2021-09-09 | Moscow | Oh | Zimmer Power Company, LLC | Multiple body parts | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
An employee was performing maintenance work on a hydrogen dryer. A hydrogen fire burned the employee's right arm, his right hand, and the right side of his face. | |||||
2021-09-06 | Columbus | Oh | Mother Angeline McCrory Manor | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
An employee opened a dryer to take clothes out and her finger got caught in the machine, likely the dryer's door. The employee sustained an amputation to the right index finger. | |||||
2021-08-02 | Saint Louis | Mo | SENSIENT COLORS, LLC | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee had cleaned a vacuum belt dryer feed tank with steam-heated water, which he then drained out of the tank through the outlet valve at the bottom. When he disconnected the nitrogen supply line on the upper part of the tank, hot water sprayed from the flange for that line and struck the employee. He suffered second-degree burns to his neck, chest, back, legs, and arms, covering about 30 percent of his body. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2021-07-22 | Beaumont | Ms | HOOD INDUSTRIES, INC. | Foot (feet) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
An employee was making repairs on a dryer when a come-a-long chain holding a 250-pound diagonal brace broke. The brace fell and struck the employee's foot, fracturing it. | |||||
2021-05-28 | Orangeville | Il | Corefx Ingredients LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was assisting in cleaning out the baghouse in the spray dryer room when the blades of the rotary valve amputated four fingers on their right hand. | |||||
2021-05-26 | Garland | Tx | INTERCERAMIC INC. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was operating a dryer kiln when an alarm went off indicating that one of the two limit switches of the centering device control was not functioning properly. In order to reach the centering device control limit switch, the employee used a rod and kneeled down stretching his body/hand forward between the dryer exit and a column of an unloader machine. The employee's body was caught between the exiting tile cart and the column of the unloader machine resulting in fractured ribs. | |||||
2021-04-28 | Grand Island | Ne | Aurora Cooperative Elevator Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was working on a grain dryer when it lacerated his left thumb. | |||||
2021-03-03 | Madison | Ga | GP Building Products Operations LP | Forearm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was feeding veneer into the dryer when the veneer became jammed. The employee's right arm was caught in the chain and sprocket while unjamming the veneer, resulting in amputation of the employee's right arm up to the elbow. | |||||
2021-02-23 | Havana | Fl | Coastal Forest Resources Company | Pelvis | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
On February 23, 2021, an employee was removing 4-inch by 4-inch posts from the tops of stacks of veneer before they were loaded into an industrial veneer dryer. While the employee was between stacks of pine veneer on the dryer's infeed chains, the employee was caught between two of the racks and suffered pelvis fractures. She was hospitalized. | |||||
2021-01-18 | Kenner | La | Pellerin Milnor Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was using a pry bar to adjust a dryer basket in a fixture. The employee's left ring finger was caught between the fixture and the basket, and the fingertip was amputated. | |||||
2021-01-01 | Thibodaux | La | Lowe's Home Centers, LLC | Arm(s) | Other fall to lower level |
A delivery driver was tasked with delivering a washer and dryer to a customer's home. The employee was retrieving a cord on the delivery truck when he lost balance and fell off the back of the truck onto the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a broken arm. | |||||
2020-10-04 | Cornell | Wi | MULE HIDE MANUFACTURING CO., INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
On October 4, 2020, an employee was working at the dryer section of a machine. While feeding felt paper into the reel of the machine, the employee's left hand became caught between the mandrel and the seal, resulting in fractures to the index and middle fingers. | |||||
2020-09-10 | Garland | Tx | INTERCERAMIC INC. | Pelvis | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was pushing a tile cart that was on an automated track into a dryer. The employee got caught between two carts and was struck by a cart. The employee sustained a broken pelvis. | |||||
2020-09-01 | Danville | Il | Bunge Milling, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Contact with objects and equipment |
On September 1, 2020, at approximately 8:00 p.m., an employee was working on conduit for a new installation from the platform of a scissor lift that was not yet elevated when it came in contact with (and was dragged by) a rotary dryer. The employee was crushed between the scissor lift and the rotary blower, suffering fractures on his mandible, clavicle, and right orbital bone. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2020-08-03 | Cincinnati | Oh | Givaudan Flavors Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee attempted to unclog the rotary valve of a dryer when he suffered a partial amputation of his left index finger. | |||||
2020-07-19 | Baxley | Georgia | Appling County Pellets, LLC | Leg(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was breaking up hardened residual ash to remove it from the inside of the second chamber of a dryer during a scheduled outage of the equipment. A piece of the ash fell and pinned the employee's legs. Interior layers of the residual ash were still hot, causing third degree burns on the right leg, second degree burns on the left leg, and second degree burns to portions of both arms. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2020-06-25 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | Minn-Dak Growers LTD | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
An employee was working on a grain dryer door when the door moved and pinched his right thumb, resulting in a thumb fracture and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2020-06-11 | Jamestown | North Dakota | MAGNUM ELECTRIC, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
On June 11, 2020, at 7:30 a.m., an employee was diagnosing why a breaker kept tripping on a dust extraction system at a grain dryer facility. As the employee was cleaning out the dust near the airlocks, the system started. The fan blades then amputated all four of his fingers on his right hand. | |||||
2020-06-05 | Havana | Florida | Coastal Forest Resources Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
On June 5, 2020, an employee was straightening a sheet of veneer from the out-feed of a dryer machine. The employee's left hand and glove were caught in a chain and sprocket in the machine, causing amputations to his left little, ring, and middle fingers at the first joint and his right index fingertip above the first joint. | |||||
2020-04-01 | Jacksonville | Florida | United States Gypsum Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
At about 10:50 a.m. on April 1, 2020, four employees were trying to unjam a sheet of drywall that was stuck in a kiln dryer. One of the employees was pulling on the sheet when it moved, causing the drive belt and assembly to rotate and pin his left hand. The pad of his middle finger was cut off to the first knuckle. | |||||
2020-02-14 | Marinette | Wisconsin | Kimberly Clark Corporation | Skull | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was inspecting the inside of a dryer. An object moved inside the dryer, crushing the employee's skull against the side of the dryer. The employee suffered multiple skull fractures. | |||||
2020-02-13 | Blauvelt | New York | Tri Seal Holdings | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was trying to unjam a resin clog in a spin dryer. The rotating blades inside the exit port amputated his left ring fingertip. | |||||
2020-01-19 | Groves | Texas | Keystone Engineering, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was helping a client unclog a dryer discharge chute when hot process water and salts spilled onto the employee, causing second degree burns to 25 percent of his body. | |||||
2020-01-15 | Lancaster | Ohio | Homewatch Caregiver | Hip(s) | Fall on same level |
An employee was getting laundry out of a dryer at a client's home. The employee fell to the floor, suffering a broken hip ball socket. | |||||
2020-01-07 | Beaumont | Mississippi | HOOD INDUSTRIES INC. | Upper arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was clearing a piece of wood from the infeed of a dryer. A sprocket caught his jacket, and the chain and sprocket abraded and burned the bottom and underside of his right upper arm. | |||||
2019-08-19 | Beverly | West Virgini | AHF Products | Thigh(s) | Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet |
Two employees were repairing a steam leak on a pre-dryer on a 20-foot elevated surface. While welding, both employees fell approximately 20 feet when they both lost their footing on the platform. One employee fell on a peg that punctured his right thigh and was subsequently hospitalized. The second employee received a head laceration that required 9 stitches. The second employee was treated and released the same day. | |||||
2019-06-03 | Louisville | Mississippi | Winston Plywood & Veneer, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was removing a piece of wood from the off end of a wood dryer. The employee's right hand was caught in the dryer's chain and sprocket; four fingertips were amputated. | |||||
2019-05-24 | Greenwich | New York | Hollingsworth & Vose Company | Forearm(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was threading a 12" tail into the lead-out roll under the thru air dryer on a paper machine when the paper tail fell out. The employee went to manually tuck it into the nip point, and his right arm was drawn into the roller. He suffered a third degree burn to the right forearm that required hospitalization. | |||||
2019-05-06 | Riceboro | Georgia | SNF Holding Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was cleaning out a dryer when the rotary valve struck their left ring finger and amputated it to the first knuckle. | |||||
2019-05-01 | East Saint Louis | Illinois | PBT Environmental Operations, Inc. | Arm(s) | Vehicle or machinery fire |
When an employee was relighting the dryer burner, the system malfunctioned and flashed. The employee's arm was burned. | |||||
2019-04-26 | El Paso | Texas | Best Buy | BODY SYSTEMS | Direct exposure to electricity |
An employee was shocked while servicing a dryer at a customer's home. The employee lost consciousness, regained consciousness, and was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-02-23 | Kirkwood | Missouri | Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
An employee on a 6-foot ladder, cleaning an external dryer vent that was about 11.5 feet above a patio. The ladder tipped over and the employee fell; his head hit the patio furniture and then the concrete patio itself, and he briefly lost consciousness. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-02-20 | Hamburg | Pennsylvania | JOE JURGIELEWICZ & SON LTD. | Multiple body parts | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
An employee was using a metal pipe with 1/2-inch tines to scrape the feathers off the side of a dryer. The force of the spinning dryer caught the pipe, which impaled the employee in the upper chest and passed through his shoulder. The force then pulled out the pipe and knocked off the lid of the dryer, sending the employee to the floor. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-02-15 | Meadville | Pennsylvania | Ainsworth Pet Nutrition, LLC, a Division of JM Smucker Company | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was in a dryer room. Her left hand contacted a rotating airlock/rotary feeder valve in a pipe, causing the amputation of her index fingertip. | |||||
2019-02-11 | Morrow | Georgia | Fresh Express, Inc. | Hand(s) | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
An employee was putting a basket into a dryer using a hoist. The lid came down on his right hand causing a laceration with exposed bone and tendon. | |||||
2019-02-05 | Altamonte Springs | Florida | The Home Depot USA Inc. | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was using a 9-step ladder to pack down dryer ducts. As she was descending the ladder, she missed the bottom step and fell, breaking her ankle. | |||||
2019-02-04 | Akron | Ohio | Splash Car Wash | Multiple head locations | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was repairing the overhead dry and shine automatic towel dryer of the car wash when it fell onto the employee. The employee sustained severe head and facial fractures and lacerations including a broken jaw and teeth. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-01-25 | Chopin | Louisiana | MARTCO PLYWOOD | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was working to unhang a belt on a dryer with an extension device. The device got wedged and the employee went through a barrier rail to remove it. His left arm came in contact with the belt sprocket and was pulled into the equipment. The employee received a fracture and laceration to the left arm. | |||||
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. | |||||
2018-09-25 | Downers Grove | Illinois | FLAVORCHEM CORPORATION | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
A temporary employee's right index and middle fingertips were amputated in a spray dryer. | |||||
2018-09-21 | Minocqua | Wisconsin | Kwik Trip, Inc. | Arm(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee had replaced a fire extinguisher on a wall and was turning when her foot caught on the base of an air dryer. She fell to the floor, suffering a broken right arm and facial injuries (including a possible broken nose). | |||||
2018-09-11 | Birmingham | Alabama | Aramark Uniform & Career Apparel, LLC | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee opened the front door to a commercial dryer to add some garments. The dryer did not turn off when the door was opened. Garments in the dryer caught her arm, twisting it and tearing tendons in her hand. | |||||
2018-09-05 | Pataskala | Ohio | 84 Lumber | Leg(s) | Fall on same level |
Before 6:00 p.m. on September 5, 2018, an employee tripped/slipped and fell on a dryer while carrying a chainsaw. The chainsaw cut the employee's lower left leg above the kneecap, causing a deep laceration. | |||||
2018-08-28 | Spring Grove | Pennsylvania | P.H. Glatfelter Company | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
While helping to rethread a paper machine at the dryer section, an employee suffered heat symptoms including cramping and difficulty breathing. The employee was hospitalized for heat stroke. | |||||
2018-08-17 | Granton | Wisconsin | Lynn Proteins, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
At approximately 11:15 a.m., on August 17, 2018, an employee was attempting to clear a powder buildup that was stuck in a dryer's rotary valve when the employee's right-hand fingers contacted the rotary valve, amputating the ring, middle, and pinky fingers. The rotary valve was not turned off and/or locked out at the time of the incident. | |||||
2018-07-28 | Chicago | Illinois | H.B. Taylor Co. | Fingertip(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
An employee was washing a spray dryer unit. The rotary valve caused the amputation of the employee's index and middle fingertips. | |||||
2018-01-28 | Tulsa | Oklahoma | Brookdale Senior Living | BODY SYSTEMS | Vehicle or machinery fire |
An employee was performing laundry services when clothes in a dryer caught on fire. The employee opened the dryer door and inhaled smoke, suffering lung irritation and exacerbation of asthma. | |||||
2018-01-18 | Sabetha | Kansas | Wenger Manufacturing, Inc. | Brain | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
An employee was tying cables on top of an industrial dryer that was 15' high when the employee tripped on pipes or wires and fell to the concrete below, suffering brain swelling and broken ribs. | |||||
2017-09-22 | Stuttgart | Arkansas | RICELAND FOODS INC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was cleaning out a column dryer when his right index fingertip was pinched and amputated between the feed rollers. | |||||
2017-08-18 | Springfield | Ohio | Dole Fresh Vegetables, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was performing maintenance on a dryer when the employee's finger made contact with the dryer belt and pulley, amputating it. | |||||
2017-07-31 | Superior | Wisconsin | C&L CONTRACTING, INC. | Lower leg(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
An employee was starting the main compressor and checking it to see if it was operating correctly. The main airline supply hose, which comes from the air dryer to the sandblasting pot, came off and struck the employee in the lower right leg, resulting in a fractured tibia and fibula. | |||||
2017-07-29 | Jay | Maine | Verso Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
While clearing a piece of stuck paper, an employee sustained finger lacerations and amputation of the left middle and ring fingertips after their hand was pulled into the rope/sheave nips in the after-dryer section of the paper machine. | |||||
2017-07-21 | Cleveland | Ohio | Intigral, Inc. | Wrist(s) and arm(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was working on a dryer operation and was removing a piece of glass when the machine's lid began to close unexpectedly. He was attempting to get his arm out of the machine when his wrist struck the structure and his arm was pinched between the lid and the machine. He suffered a fractured right wrist and right bicep cut, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2017-06-26 | Senoia | Georgia | Winpak Films | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was troubleshooting the valve on dryer equipment when the valve amputated the employee's right index fingertip. | |||||
2017-06-19 | Beatrice | Alabama | Scotch Plywood Company, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was working in the dryer building area stacking units of veneer plywood with a forklift. The employee got off the forklift to place timbers between the stacks of veneer. In the process the employee's right index finger was pinched and smashed between the timbers and the forklift forks, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2017-06-19 | Pryor | Oklahoma | DuPont | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee and coworkers performed lockout/tagout procedures on a dryer rotary feed to clear a clogged plug. The employees cleared the plug and began to run the dryer, but the plug had not been placed back into the dryer. The injured employee was pointing to the rotary feed to remind the lead person to put the plug back in when the rotary feed amputated his right index finger from the fingertip to the bottom of the nailbed. | |||||
2017-05-21 | Beaumont | Mississippi | HOOD INDUSTRIES, INC. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was stacking wood near a dryer when he became dizzy and started to feel ill. He was overheated and needed to be hospitalized overnight. | |||||
2017-05-18 | Stuttgart | Arkansas | T & T MILLWRIGHT INC. | Multiple body parts | Fall through surface or existing opening more than 30 feet |
An employee was working inside a dryer to change out a turn-flow. He was stepping on a 2-inch x 10 ft. board to hook his lanyard when the board broke and he fell 50 feet to the hard surface below, fracturing his skull and breaking his collarbone. | |||||
2017-03-27 | Dallas | Texas | Dal-Tile Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
Three team members were doing repair work on the bullnose dryer to repair a broken chain on the transfer system. A team member was located on each end of the dryer, with a third team member assisting. They were about 15 to 20 feet apart, trying to get the chain back in place. The team members had completed the proper lock-out/tag-out procedure on the equipment. The injured employee noticed the chain was twisted in the sprocket, so he asked them by radio to stop pulling the chain. While he was un | |||||
2017-03-01 | Geneva | Illinois | FONA INTERNATIONAL, INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was cleaning a spray dryer, at or near the rotary valve, and amputated fingers on the right hand. | |||||
2017-02-01 | Rahway | New Jersey | MERCK & CO., INC. | Foot (feet) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee was inspecting the door to a interior idle tray dryer when the door fell off the hinges and onto his foot. | |||||
2017-01-22 | Troy | Alabama | KW Plastics recycling division | Leg(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
As an employee was attempting to put a screen back on a spin dryer, he stepped into an opening on an auger and his leg was crushed/fractured by the auger. | |||||
2016-10-07 | Salina | Kansas | Repco Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was checking for any obstructions in the dryer when the employee's right hand became caught in the anti-clumping tumbler wheel, amputating a fingertip. | |||||
2016-09-27 | Wisconsin Rapids | Wisconsin | Verso Corporation | Multiple body parts | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee was installing a dryer felt when the pipe slid off the end of the forks and struck the employee, knocking her to the floor. She suffered injuries to her right fingers and the left side of her body. | |||||
2016-09-27 | Proctor | West Virgini | Certainteed Gypsum | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level |
On September 27, 2016, at approximately 4:45 a.m., an employee was helping to clear a dryer jam. While stepping over a steel latch support, he fell (on same level) against another steel latch support and fractured his right femur. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2016-09-16 | Omega | Georgia | Olam Edible Nuts | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was attempting to set up a dryer system to dry peanuts before shipment to a processing facility. The employee's right hand went through the grating of the face of the dryer and the fan blades amputated three fingers. The dryer was in operation at the time of the incident. | |||||
2016-09-14 | Sanborn | New York | VWR Chemicals LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was standing on the mezzanine level while cleaning the dryer hopper. He was using a hose and spraying water into a cleaning port at the top of the hopper. There are moving parts inside the hopper, and it has to be cleaned while the parts are moving. The employee climbed down to ground level at the base of the hopper. There was another port at the base of the hopper, which contained a vane valve on a rotating shaft. The employee's left index finger entered this port, amputating his fi | |||||
2016-09-07 | Monmouth Junction | New Jersey | Nuvida Plastic Technology | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was cleaning a jammed outlet pipe on the spin dryer and amputated a fingertip. | |||||
2016-08-17 | Burlington | Kansas | Life Care Center of Burlington | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was preforming maintenance on a dryer and was greasing the gears when his right middle finger was caught between the gears, amputating his right middle fingertip. | |||||
2016-08-02 | Peekskill | New York | BASF Color and Effects | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was investigating a blockage in the hopper system. While closing the hopper's dryer door, the employee suffered amputations to the left-hand ring, middle, and index fingertips. | |||||
2016-07-19 | South Daytona | Florida | Best Buy Stores, LP | BODY SYSTEMS | Indirect exposure to electricity |
An employee was assisting during the installation of a new washer/dryer in a private residence. After plugging in the appliance to an outlet, he touched the dryer and received an electric shock. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2016-06-25 | Longmont | Colorado | Two Men and a Truck | Brain | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was helping to move a dryer up the ramp into the moving truck when he lost his footing, bumped his head on the ramp, and fell to the ground. He suffered a head injury. | |||||
2016-06-13 | Champaign | Illinois | Kraft Heinz Foods Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was clearing out a dryer due to a buildup of pasta between the press and dryer when a coworker turned on the machine to blow the line free of pasta. The employee suffered amputations of the second, third, and fourth fingers below the knuckle, as well as a pinky finger amputation above the knuckle. | |||||
2016-05-30 | Middleboro | Massachusett | OCEAN SPRAY CRANBERRIES, INCORPORATED | Hand(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was hospitalized when his right hand was caught in a dryer belt. | |||||
2016-04-30 | Zelienople | Pennsylvania | BNZ Materials, Inc. | Hand(s) and wrist(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was injured after his hands got caught in a conveyor belt on a platform located next to the dryer control room. | |||||
2016-04-08 | Brewster | New York | Sears In-Home Services | Upper arm(s) | Overexertion in lifting-single episode |
An employee was lifting a dryer off of another appliance with a coworker when she tore her bicep, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2016-01-20 | Chicago | Illinois | AZTECA FOODS, INC. | Nonclassifiable | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee received second degree burns when pouring water into a dryer that contained hot oil. | |||||
2016-01-20 | Saint Louis | Missouri | New World Pasta | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was cleaning under the pasta pre-dryer and an unguarded fan amputated one finger and injured two other fingers. | |||||
2015-12-18 | Dalton | Georgia | Mohawk Industries | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee suffered second and third degree burns to the chest, right arm, torso, and right foot when struck by hot water from the Jensen Vat Dryer machine. A short in the conduit caused the dryer door to open and spray the hot water. | |||||
2015-11-23 | Beaumont | Mississippi | HOOD INDUSTRIES INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by other person |
An employee and coworkers were removing a roller from a veneer dryer by hand. The roller slipped out of a coworker's hands, and the employee's finger was trapped between the roller and the dryer. His left index finger was partially amputated. | |||||
2015-11-23 | Sinking Spring | Pennsylvania | Industrial Process and Equipment, Inc. | Multiple upper extremities locations | Explosion |
An employee was cleaning a propane dryer and blowing dust with compressed air when an explosion occurred. The employee suffered a shoulder injury and hand burns. | |||||
2015-09-22 | Osseo | Wisconsin | Energys USA, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
On 09/22/2015, two employees working on a propane gas line to a grain dryer were burned on the face, back, torso and arms when leaking propane gas ignited. | |||||
2015-09-21 | Panama City | Florida | Jensen USA, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee was holding onto the dryer's control panel that was on the fork of a pallet jack operated by his co-worker. As the pallet jack was coming down the aisle, the control panel (weighing about 400 pounds) hit a box and the control panel fell onto the employee's leg fracturing the tibia. | |||||
2015-07-18 | Henry | Illinois | Mexichem Specialty Resins, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was cleaning out the grinder for a spray dryer when a finger got caught in a pinch point between the fan blade and the opening to the fan blade housing. The employee sustained a left ring finger amputation. | |||||
2015-07-11 | Jefferson | Georgia | KUBOTA INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
A maintenance employee was assisting another maintenance employee in repairing/replacing a belt on a dryer fan. He was checking the tension of the belt while the machine was slowing down after being shut down and caught his left hand in the pulley amputating the left thumb tip approximately half way down into the nail. | |||||
2015-07-09 | Clinton | Oklahoma | Mars PetCare US, Inc | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was attempting to clear a clog in the rotary air lock of a central vacuum with his fingers. The first and second fingertips on his right hand were amputated, with no bone loss, in the dryer area. | |||||
2015-07-01 | North Anson | Maine | Cousineau Wood Products of Maine, LLC | Hand(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
An employee was operating a Yale electric stand-up fork truck to move a pallet of veneer from the dryer to the veneer storage room. The fork truck was stationed near a wall. The employee accelerated the fork truck while it was in reverse gear, and he lost his balance. He braced himself by placing his left hand on the outside of the carriage. His hand got caught between the carriage and a wall. | |||||
2015-05-19 | Milwaukee | Wisconsin | Stella and Chewy's Llc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee got his finger caught between the pallet racking and the freeze dryer cart as he guided the cart towards the freeze dryer with a motorized pallet jack. The cart became stuck at the dryer, and he tried to push it into the racking system. His right pinky finger got caught and was partially amputated. | |||||
2015-04-22 | Dayton | Ohio | Rent A Center | BODY SYSTEMS | Direct exposure to electricity, 220 volts or less |
An employee received an electric shock while installing a dryer at a customer's home. | |||||
2015-03-12 | Cincinnati | Ohio | Lowes Home Centers | Ankle(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker |
An employee was removing a washer/dryer combo from an apartment and bringing it down the stairs. The unit slipped and landed on the employee's right ankle, requiring surgery. | |||||
2015-03-10 | Hoboken | Georgia | VARN WOOD PRODUCTS, LLC. | Foot (feet) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was cleaning the dryer inlet duct from a ladder and fell, which resulted in a fractured right foot. | |||||
2015-02-12 | Norfolk | Nebraska | Henningsen Foods Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
Employee was pumping emulsified turkey meat up a tube to a dryer unit. The system became clogged. When he disconnected the tube from the pump, he found the tube clear and stuck his finger in the opening to the pump, which was still running, resulting in an amputation. |