Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-09-22 | Sikeston | Mo | Missouri Farm Bureau Insurance | Head and trunk | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee was filming crop harvesting when a combine knocked her over. The combine wheel then ran over the employee, causing a crushed pelvis, a broken bone in her face, and bruising. | |||||
2019-07-16 | Amarillo | Texas | Tyson Fresh Meats | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was working on the harvesting floor as a steamback operator. The trolley came into the room and the employee removed it from the track. The employee's fingers were pinched by the trolley wheel and rail and a fingertip was amputated. | |||||
2019-06-20 | Mayville | Wisconsin | SENECA FOODS CORP | Foot (feet) | Nonclassifiable |
An employee was harvesting peas when his foot was caught between a combine frame and a hopper, fracturing his foot. | |||||
2019-06-08 | Donna | Texas | Jaime Ybarra | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee had just finished harvesting honeydew melons and was riding a trailer to the parking lot. He fainted and fell backwards injuring his head. He was hospitalized with a laceration to his head and for possible heat exhaustion/stroke. | |||||
2018-07-25 | Grayslake | Illinois | Liberty Prairie Foundation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was trimming vegetable roots with a harvesting knife. The knife lacerated his finger. | |||||
2018-06-26 | Lincoln | Massachusett | Massachusetts Audubon Society, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was topping leek bunches when her harvesting knife cut a one-inch flap of skin off her left thumb. | |||||
2017-10-11 | Glen Rose | Texas | RCB Ventures | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was harvesting grass when his hand was caught between a conveyor and roller. He broke a finger and was hospitalized. | |||||
2016-06-13 | Cordele | Georgia | M.K. HARVESTING, INC. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was hospitalized due to heat stroke that occurred while he was working in the field harvesting watermelons. | |||||
2016-01-01 | Edinburg | Texas | Ignacio Solis | Nonclassifiable | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee working on a 12 foot ladder harvesting grapefruit was struck by a forklift and knocked to the ground. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2015-09-11 | Skaneateles | New York | Twin Birch Dairy LLC | Ankle(s) | Compressed or pinched between two stationary objects |
While cleaning silage off a truck's windshield during harvesting silage operations, an employee injured his ankle when his foot got caught between the bumper and the hood of the truck, resulting in surgery and hospitalization. |