| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-05 | Lorain | Oh | Enprotech Industrial Technologies | Fingertip(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker |
| On October 5, 2021, an employee was servicing a metal forming machine. As the employee put a torque wrench on a fastener, it fell onto the employee's left thumb. The nail and flesh on the tip of the thumb were torn off. | |||||
| 2021-09-02 | Willacoochee | Ga | WMT Housing, LLC | Eye(s) | Struck by discharged or flying object |
| An employee was shooting brads into the top of a house. The brads came in sleeves, held together by plastic fasteners designed to fall off when the gun was fired. As it came off, one of these plastic fasteners struck and injured his left eye. | |||||
| 2021-04-12 | Wedowee | Al | Jeld-Wen Windows & Doors | Hand(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| An employee was assembling a pallet using a screw gun. The gun double-bounced and shot a fastener through the base of the employee's left hand and into the wrist. | |||||
| 2021-04-09 | Wooster | Oh | The Wooster Brush Company | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was pointing at the source of a squeaking sound on a hook-and-loop fastener dot application machine. Moving parts caught his left middle finger, causing a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2021-03-12 | Needham | Ma | J.W. CAMPBELL CONSTRUCTION, INC. | Head | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| Two employees collided while one of them was climbing down a ladder carrying a nail gun. The gun discharged, firing a wire nail fastener into the other employee's head. That employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-01-25 | Sylvania | Ga | KOYO BEARINGS NORTH AMERICA, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| A maintenance employee was supporting a machine component by hand while another associate loosened mounting fasteners. The cooling fan blades partially amputated the injured employee's left middle finger (third distal phalanx with acute fracture). | |||||
| 2020-05-22 | Dumas | Texas | Nutrien Ag Solutions | Forearm(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was performing maintenance on a wheel loader (front-end loader) and removed an access plate to the bottom of the engine compartment. After the fasteners were removed, the access plate fell to the floor and crushed the employee's forearm between the plate and the floor. The employee suffered damage to the muscle and connective tissue (no broken bones). | |||||
| 2020-03-19 | Fitchburg | Massachusett | Avery Dennison Corporation Fastener Division | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was operating a bagger machine line when it became backed up and needed to be cleared. The employee switched the machine to manual and began clearing fasteners with his left hand. The bagger clamps closed on the employee's left ring finger and amputated the fingertip. | |||||
| 2019-04-08 | Sparta | Wisconsin | Century Foods International, LLC | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was tightening a clamp (using channel lock pliers) on a pasteurizer system when a leak was identified. The clamp fastener dislodged while turning and 240-degree liquid discharged onto the employee, causing burns to the waist, abdomen, legs, and knees. | |||||
| 2019-01-11 | Orlando | Florida | All State Pallets | Hand(s), except finger(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| An employee was using a corrugated air gun to repair a pallet when the corrugated fastener cut his left hand and struck an artery. He was hospitalized and required hospitalization. | |||||
| 2018-04-27 | Hines | Illinois | Edward Hines Junior VA Hospital | Multiple body parts | Struck, caught, or crushed in collapsing structure, equipment, or material, n.e.c. |
| An employee was cleaning her workstation and organizing her files when a section of the acoustical ceiling (tiles and grid), adjacent light fixtures, and portions of the plaster ceiling above suddenly collapsed due to a prolonged, concealed steam leak that weakened the fastener connections. She sustained a cut to her head, bruise to her head, scratches on her neck, a scratch to her left hand, and irritation to her right hand, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2018-01-12 | Atlanta | Georgia | Lichty Commercial Construction, Inc | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was standing on a 12' step ladder about 8' off of the ground while cutting a pipe. As he was cutting the pipe, the pipe came loose from the fasteners that were holding it into the ceiling. It swung down, knocking his ladder over and causing him to land wrong on his right ankle. He was hospitalized with a right ankle injury. | |||||
| 2017-08-07 | Belvidere | Illinois | FCA US LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was tightening a bolt with a rotating bolt fastener when the employee's glove became caught in the gap between the sleeve and socket extension. The fastener then amputated the left-hand ring finger. | |||||
| 2017-01-19 | Forsyth | Georgia | Cole Technology, Inc. | Head | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was moving pallets with a forklift when it became stuck in the mud. Two coworkers attempted to pull the forklift out of the mud by tying two straps of fastener together with a clevis and attaching it to a truck that was pulling the forklift. The clevis then broke and swung back, striking and lacerating the employee's head. | |||||
| 2016-08-01 | Rosharon | Texas | Reed Industrial Systems, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee was screwing fasteners into duct work while standing on a ladder. He lost his balance and fell approximately 11 feet, cracking a rib and breaking his right heel. | |||||
| 2015-09-02 | Collinsville | Illinois | CAVO BROADBAND COMMUNICATIONS, LLC | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was preparing to run a new cable line from a utility pole to a house. The employee leaned a 28-foot ladder against the cable strand and was climbing or working when the staple fastener that was holding a strand support came out of the pole. The strand then fell 4 feet and the employee fell from the ladder, sustaining a serious head injury and other broken bones. | |||||
| 2015-08-30 | La Junta | Colorado | Lewis Bolt & Nut Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee had completed a run of five fasteners on an upsetter machine when their left hand got caught in the dies of the machine. The employee's left-hand pinky and ring fingers were amputated. | |||||
| 2015-05-27 | Hereford | Texas | EDF Renewable Services | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was operating a fastener tool. While checking the tightness of bolts, he lost balance and pinched his right hand pinky finger between the fastener tool and the wall. Employee suffered an open fracture of the right hand pinky finger and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2015-05-15 | Arlington | Texas | General Motors Arlington Assembly Plant | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was trying to install two fasteners that hold a dashboard instrument panel onto a firewall. The employee was wearing gloves; a finger on the glove got caught between the socket and the fastener, pulling the employee's finger into the socket and amputating it at the base. | |||||