Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-01-11 | Bartow | Fl | H2A Complete II, Inc. | Hip(s) and leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
A bus backed into an employee who was working in a field as a harvester. The employee suffered ankle and hip fractures, as well as torn back ligaments. | |||||
2021-01-08 | Cave City | Ar | Unicon Operating Company, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was doing maintenance work on a mechanical poultry harvester. The machine amputated the tip of his right middle finger. | |||||
2020-02-26 | Gillett | Wisconsin | Seneca Foods Corporation | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee was walking back to his work station from the tool room when he tripped on a stand that holds the fans for the harvesters and fell onto the concrete floor. He landed on and fractured his right hip. | |||||
2019-07-30 | White Springs | Florida | Suwannee Valley Grassing, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was leaning against a sod harvester machine when his right thumb got caught between the conveyor belt and the pulley causing the amputation of the thumb from the first knuckle. | |||||
2017-09-18 | Evansville | Wisconsin | Seneca Foods Corporation | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
The lima bean combine harvester was having infeed problems. An employee climbed up on the machine head to observe the problem. The harvester operator was unaware the employee was there and raised the machine head. The employee was struck/pinched by the machine head fracturing three ribs. | |||||
2017-09-02 | Truxton | New York | Law Logging | Multiple body parts | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was in a harvester cutting a pine tree when the tree came down over the back of the harvester and struck him. He suffered three broken ribs, a broken left arm, and a concussion. | |||||
2017-04-18 | Elsa | Texas | Cenizo Corporation | Hand(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was helping to clean the topping bars of a carrot harvester when his hand was caught in the topping bars. The employee received a severe laceration to his right hand resulting in hospitalization. | |||||
2017-04-05 | Bethlehem | Georgia | Harrison Poultry, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee's left index fingertip was partially amputated while placing livers into position on the giblet harvester. | |||||
2015-06-15 | Blackfoot | Idaho | SPUDNIK EQUIPMENT COMPANY LLC | Fingertip(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
An employee was assembling two pieces of sheet steel on a harvester when he slipped and one of sheets amputated his fingertip. | |||||
2015-01-27 | Frostproof | Florida | Overlook Harvesting | Liver | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
An orange harvester was on a 13 foot ladder when he became off balance, fell, and landed on the rim of the metal tub. He suffered a laceration to his liver. |