| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-03 | Marietta | Oh | Mondo Polymer Technologies, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was operating a machine that dumps bales of plastic into a shredder. The platform was in the dump position when the employee noticed there was plastic about to discharge and was concerned it wouldn't enter into the shredder. He climbed up the side of the bale dumper to manually push the plastic towards the hopper and placed his left hand on the upright box tubing frame, which houses the guide wheels. There are two access holes approximately two inches in diameter, which maintenance u | |||||
| 2021-11-02 | Heyburn | Id | Joe Roberts | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level 26 to 30 feet |
| Employees were moving rock off a roof to access the rubber waterproofing in order to repair the roof. Employee 1 was using an equipment hopper. The hopper moved forward toward the roof edge rather than backward toward the work and Employee 1 fell off the roof edge. Employee 2 reached out to grab Employee 1 and both employees were pulled over the edge by the weight of the hopper. Both employees fell 25-30 feet into the bed of a work truck. The work truck was filled approximately 1.5 feet in depth | |||||
| 2021-11-02 | Green Bay | Wi | Alive & Kickin' Pizza Crust | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was working on a divider that makes balls of dough from a larger batch in an elevated hopper. The employee was removing dough that was leaking from the elevated hopper, when their hand was caught in the machine, resulting in an amputation to the tip of their right thumb. | |||||
| 2021-10-25 | Indianola | Ok | IHC Scott | Foot (feet) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee climbed inside a rubber-tracked placer to clean it. While the employee was inside the hopper, it was moved forward and the auger was turned on. The auger struck the employee, both of whose feet were broken. | |||||
| 2021-10-22 | Corpus Christi | Tx | Berry Contracting, L.P. | Fingertip(s) | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
| An employee was dumping a self-dumping forklift hopper attached to a forklift. When the hopper rolled forward, it lifted the hopper skid off the forks and caused the skid to slide back, pinching the employee's left index fingertip between the skid and the fork of the lift. The employee suffered a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2021-10-20 | Arlington | Tx | QFC Plastics | Elbow(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was climbing steps to reach a machine hopper when she slipped and fell to the floor, landing on her elbow. The employee suffered a dislocated elbow. | |||||
| 2021-10-15 | Linden | Nj | A&C Catalysts, Inc. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee's right hand was caught by an agitator blade in a hopper; the employee suffered severe lacerations. The feeder bin's safety grate was not present at the time. | |||||
| 2021-10-04 | Newark | Ar | Atlantic Plant Maintenance, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck by rolling object or equipment being pushed by another person |
| On October 4, 2021, at 8:20 a.m., two employees were using a hand pallet jack to move a trash dumpster to a crane bay. At the base of the trash hopper, there are two slots and a skid that allow a forklift to move the dumpster. Between the slots is a small metal pedal that allows the dumpster to slide forward. The employees attempted to insert the pallet jack under the skid, but the metal pedal was obstructing the forks of the pallet jack. Employee 1 reached down to lift and hold the pedal into p | |||||
| 2021-10-01 | Rochester | Ny | DIPAOLO BAKING CO., INC. | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was placing dough into a hopper that led to a proofing machine. The employee attempted to remove excess dough from the machine when their right arm contacted the sprocket and chain, resulting in a right arm amputation. The machine was in operation at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2021-10-01 | Kingsville | Mo | STAHL SPECIALTY COMPANY | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| On September 1, 2021, an employee was using a forklift to empty hoppers. The employee inhaled dust and fumes from the molten metal and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-09-27 | Jacksonville | Fl | Central Florida Contractors Services, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| On September 27, 2021, an employee was cleaning a concrete pump at the wash out area. As he sat at the edge of the hopper, the auger inside the hopper engaged and his right leg was amputated below the knee. | |||||
| 2021-09-20 | Conneautville | Pa | J N Pallet Company, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| The injured employee had been placing pallet stringers (rough cut wood) into the hoppers for a nailing machine. The injured employee was removing a jammed piece of wood from a hopper while the operator of the nailing machine was also trying to unjam the wood. A metal bar moved and pinched the injured employee's finger against the jammed wood causing an avulsion injury to the fingernail and skin of the fingertip. The employee's finger required surgery that involved trimming the bone of the finger | |||||
| 2021-09-16 | New Richmond | Wi | A-Star Concrete Pumping, Inc. | Arm(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
| An employee was washing out the hopper of a concrete trailer pump. Components of the hopper lacerated and broke the employee's right arm. | |||||
| 2021-09-13 | Kathleen | Ga | Frito-Lay Inc | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was lowering a hopper into an extruder using an electric hoist. His left middle and index fingers were caught between the hopper and the extruder, resulting in amputations to the fingertips. | |||||
| 2021-09-02 | Hazlehurst | Ga | Triple H Specialty Company, Inc. | Hand(s) and arm(s) | Dust explosion |
| An employee was taking a break by a baghouse after shoveling hot pellets that were being expelled from a cooler. While the pellets were still being expelled from the cooler hopper, a flame shot out of the discharge pipe, then backdrafted up the pipe into the cooler and then into the bag house. The employee suffered burns to the hands and arms from the resulting explosion. | |||||
| 2021-09-02 | Wichita | Ks | Waste Management of Kansas Inc | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was trying to push trash off the sill of a hopper. The cart tipper was activated, and as it rose it pinched the employee's left hand against the sill. The employee's little fingertip was amputated. | |||||
| 2021-08-29 | Glendale Heights | Il | Pro-Troop LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| On August 29, 2021, an employee was cleaning dough from the roller of a chunker hopper. As he was removing a piece of dough, his left hand was caught by a roller of the chunker machine. He suffered an amputation of the index finger, as well as crushing injuries to the left middle and ring fingers. | |||||
| 2021-08-26 | Bethlehem | Ga | T & M Tilt-Up, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
| An employee had been directing a concrete truck. The employee's right hand got stuck between the truck's chute and the hopper of the concrete pump. The employee sustained crushed fingers and an injury to the wrist. | |||||
| 2021-08-18 | Oneill | Ne | BX Civil & Construction | Ankle(s) and leg(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning a concrete placer. He was on the housing of the auger/hopper area, chipping out some built-up concrete, when his right foot slipped. The auger caught his pant leg and pulled in his right leg. The leg and the ankle were broken. | |||||
| 2021-08-14 | Lawrenceville | Ga | REHRIG PACIFIC COMPANY | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was operating the trash can injection mold machine and noticed that the hopper was jammed with plastic material. As the employee attempted to unjam the hopper, the blade amputated the fingertips on his left hand. | |||||
| 2021-08-12 | Great Bend | Ks | VENTURE CORPORATION | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| An employee was inspecting a hopper bin when their loose clothing was caught in a tail pulley. The employee suffered a broken arm. | |||||
| 2021-08-07 | Baldwin | Il | Dynegy Midwest Generation Inc. | Shoulder(s) and back | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| At about 11:30 a.m. on August 7, 2021, an employee opened an inspection door on a furnace hopper and was burned by heated ash exiting the door. The employee suffered burns to the back and shoulder. | |||||
| 2021-07-27 | Orlando | Fl | A-1 Block Corporation | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| On July 27, 2021, an employee was on a straight ladder to check the level of an open aggregate hopper when the ladder slipped, causing him to fall approximately 3-4 feet and resulting in a broken left ankle. | |||||
| 2021-07-23 | Bay City | Tx | Equistar Chemicals, LP | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
| At about 6:00 p.m. on July 23, 2021, an employee was using a forklift to empty a pellet hopper into a roll-off box. The hopper bounced back and the employee's left index finger was pinched between the forklift fork and the hopper's channel iron base. The employee suffered an amputation to the finger. | |||||
| 2021-07-22 | Midland | Tx | Agri-Empresa LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area |
| A temporary employee was cutting IBC bags of barite into a metal hopper to unload product. The employee's left hand was on the edge of the hopper as a forklift approached with a bag. The employee's pinky finger was caught between the hopper and the bag resulting in a partial amputation. | |||||
| 2021-07-06 | Grove City | Fl | Waste Management Inc. of Florida | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An temporary employee was collecting a small bundle of yard waste from the curb and loading it into the rear hopper area of a sanitation truck. The packer panel was activated and the employee's left hand was caught by the panel and crushed. | |||||
| 2021-07-02 | Schwertner | Tx | SCHWERTNER FARMS, INC. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was dropping cubes from the flatbed truck to feed cattle. As the employee was clearing out a cake, the hopper door came down and amputated the employee's left index fingertip. | |||||
| 2021-06-26 | Fargo | Nd | Nu-tek Food Science, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was changing a bulk bag underneath a hopper when his left hand became caught on the rotary airlock, resulting in amputations to his index, middle, and ring fingers. | |||||
| 2021-06-25 | Corinth | Ms | B and B Concrete Co., Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
| The operator of a front-end loader was on the ground helping to move a metal hopper on the loader bucket. Their left index finger was caught between the loader bucket and the metal hopper resulting in loss of the pad of the finger. | |||||
| 2021-06-21 | Bolingbrook | Il | Bay State Milling Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| At 12:04 p.m. on June 21, 2021, an employee was dumping 50-pound bags of ground caraway into a hopper through a screen. The product bridged in the hopper, so the employee slid the screen out of the way and began pushing the product down. The screw feed auger at the bottom of the hopper nipped his right index finger, causing an amputation. | |||||
| 2021-06-19 | Shrewsbury | Ma | Table Talk Pies, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| On June 19, 2021, an employee was working on a pneumatic hopper. The employee was cleaning food out of the machine when it crushed his right middle finger, leading to an amputation. | |||||
| 2021-06-18 | Auburn | Al | Aptar CSP Technologies | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by object or equipment |
| An employee and two co-workers were removing a feed hopper due to a piece of hard resin that had accumulated between the hopper and the mixer. When the hopper was dislodged from the mixer, it pivoted into a new position and contacted the employee's right pinky finger, crushing it between the hopper and the mezzanine floor and resulting in crush injuries and lacerations that required hospitalization. | |||||
| 2021-06-13 | Oshkosh | Wi | Pacur, LLC | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was using an 8-foot, A-frame ladder to clean the hopper of an extruder. He finished cleaning and fell less than 7 feet, from the ladder to the ground. The employee sustained a broken leg requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2021-06-10 | Nanticoke | Pa | Fabcon Precast, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| An employee was cleaning a spray paint hopper bucket with a pressure washer. The employee reached down to adjust the position of the bucket with his left hand when his left index finger contacted the water from the pressure washer, resulting in a laceration that required hospitalization. | |||||
| 2021-06-03 | Social Circle | Ga | STANDRIDGE COLOR CORPORATION | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning out a hopper when his hand slipped and contacted the rotor, resulting in a right middle finger amputation at the base of the nail and damage to the index finger. | |||||
| 2021-05-14 | Cleveland | Oh | Progress Rail - Cleveland Track Materials, Inc. | Foot (feet) | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
| On May 13, 2021, an employee was operating an overhead crane to move a 2,980 lbs. chip hopper. The hopper was approximately one inch off the ground while moving it. The hopper rotated and caught the employee's foot against the hopper frame and concert ramp resulting in a fracture and laceration to the foot. | |||||
| 2021-05-14 | Ozona | Tx | Ag-Con, LLC. | Nonclassifiable | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| Two employees were in a hopper, performing maintenance on a rock crushing machine. The belt began to operate, carrying them into the chute and through the machine. They suffered fractures and lacerations. | |||||
| 2021-05-12 | Bridgeton | Mo | MIDWEST BLOCK & BRICK COMPANY | Forearm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning dust off the photo eye of the dump hopper when it activated and caught his left arm between the dump hopper and the frame of the machine. The employee sustained a left ulnar fracture, an elbow wound and traumatic muscle injury. | |||||
| 2021-05-12 | Laredo | Tx | Wilkinson Gary Iron & Metal, Inc. | Eye(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was feeding strands of aluminum conductor steel-reinforced wire into a chopper machine. A strand tangled up in the machine, which jammed. The employee disengaged the feed rollers and was trying to free the tangled wire when the end of it sprung back, striking him in the left eye. He lost the eye. | |||||
| 2021-04-21 | Boston | Ma | Allied Waste Services of Massachusetts, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| A dumpster fell into a truck hopper, pinning an employee's left hand against the truck. The employee suffered amputations to the index, middle, and ring fingers. | |||||
| 2021-04-14 | Ravenswood | Wv | Star Plastics, Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| An employee was setting up a line and noticed that a polytube above a dust hopper feeder had pulled into the transition piece. He removed the lid from the feeder and was reaching in to pull the polytube out when the valve closed on the ends of his index and middle fingers, amputating the pads of his fingers. | |||||
| 2021-04-12 | Saint Petersburg | Fl | Covanta Pinellas | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| At 4:45 p.m. on April 12, 2021, an employee was preparing to pressure-wash an ash hopper. After he was set up, the wand slipped out of his hand and the trigger deployed when it hit the ground. Pressurized water struck his left little finger. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-04-06 | Gering | Ne | Prime Metal Products, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was dumping scraps of sheet metal into a waste bin. He was retrieving some pieces of metal from the hopper when they lacerated his left index and middle fingers. | |||||
| 2021-03-31 | Cartersville | Ga | XPO Logistics Supply Chain, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On March 31, 2021, an employee was emptying a trash hopper when his finger was crushed in the hopper resulting in medical amputation of the finger above the knuckle. | |||||
| 2021-03-30 | Greenwood | Ar | Forsgren Inc | BODY SYSTEMS | Indirect exposure to electricity |
| An employee was spotting a dump truck. The truck raised its bed into a high-voltage overhead powerline while the employee was touching a hopper connected to the truck. The employee was shocked. | |||||
| 2021-03-23 | Menomonee Falls | Wi | Marian Milwaukee Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was running production on a chopper machine when material got stuck behind the blade. While clearing the material, the machine cycled and amputated his right index fingertip. | |||||
| 2021-03-17 | Denver | Co | SMX Cargo, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was moving trash with a forklift. As the employee emptied the forklift's trash hopper, his left ring finger was caught in a pinch point and the fingertip was amputated. | |||||
| 2021-03-11 | Green Cove Springs | Fl | Advanced Disposal | Face | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| On March 11, 2021, a temporary employee was on a route picking up garbage. While he was cycling the hopper, a metal pole sprung out and struck him in the face, resulting in facial fractures that required hospitalization. | |||||
| 2021-03-04 | Marathon | Fl | Marathon Garbage Service, Inc. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee rested his hand on the inside of a garbage truck hopper as he operated the packer panel. His hand was caught between the packer panel and the truck, resulting in a fractured left hand. | |||||
| 2021-02-19 | Convent | La | Trinity Trading Group, LTD | Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) | Water vehicle incident, n.e.c. |
| An employee had just finished washing out the cargo from the hopper of a barge and was pulling up the wash hose from the hopper. He lost his balance and fell into the hopper, landing on another employee (who had been feeding the hose up to him). The employee who fell suffered a closed head injury; the employee he landed on suffered a shoulder injury and a broken collarbone. | |||||
| 2021-02-16 | Loxley | Al | ACE RETAIL SUPPORT CENTER | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was lowering a trash bin that was attached to the forks of a forklift. As the hopper rolled back into the original position, it crushed the employee's left thumb tip resulting in a partial amputation. | |||||
| 2021-02-15 | Braintree | Ma | FireKing Baking Company, Inc. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was working at the production area on the dough forming line. The employee was waiting for the next batch of dough to be run and went to scrape the excess dough. The employee dropped his dough scraper into the hopper. While trying to get the scraper, his right hand was severely lacerated and crushed by the rotating star cutters. | |||||
| 2021-02-12 | Londonderry | Nh | Continental Paving, Inc. | Hand(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
| An employee was working on-site crushing old concrete. He was standing near the hopper of the crusher, pulling out debris. He signaled to the excavator operator to dump the next scoop. A large piece of concrete slid and crushed his left hand against the side of the hopper. | |||||
| 2021-02-05 | Peachtree City | Ga | GFL Environmental Inc. | Forearm(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was working from the back of a garbage truck when his hand slipped, becoming pinned by the handle of the hopper. The employee sustained a fracture to the left forearm. | |||||
| 2021-02-03 | Fulton | Ny | K&N's Foods USA, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was pushing and scraping meat inside the hopper of a meat extruder when their right-hand middle finger became caught in the meat extruder, resulting in a partial amputation. | |||||
| 2021-01-28 | West Haven | Ct | Glanbia Nutritionals NA, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An operator was putting product into a hopper. There were issues with processing the product through the grater/strainer. While the operator was pushing the product, a finger on their right hand contacted the auger resulting in partial amputation. | |||||
| 2021-01-26 | Glen Mills | Pa | MOR construction services | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning a work truck. While he was clearing an obstruction in the salt hopper, his glove was caught and the auger partially amputated his hand. | |||||
| 2021-01-25 | Americus | Ga | Nutrien | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was trying to place a chute into a hopper under a conveyor through a side opening in the hopper. A rope, used to secure the chute in place under the upper conveyor, got caught in a conveyor drum at the bottom of the hopper. The employee was holding the rope in his hands at the time, and the conveyor pulled the rope and the employee's right hand down into the rotating drum. The hand was torn open and the top part of the index finger was medically amputated. | |||||
| 2021-01-05 | Elm Grove | La | BRUCE OAKLEY FERTILIZER | Foot (feet) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was loading the fertilizer hopper in the fertilizer house. As he was loading the hopper, his left foot was caught in the hopper while breaking up a fertilizer clump, resulting in injuries to his left foot that required surgery and hospitalization. | |||||
| 2021-01-03 | Racine | Wi | Premier Aluminum, LLC | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| The injured employee was helping a forklift operator weigh and load scrap aluminum into a shipping container. The employee was caught between the forklift's hopper and a shelf mounted to a cinderblock wall and hospitalized for a broken pelvis and a lacerated spleen, colon and liver. | |||||
| 2020-10-01 | Dallas | Tx | Commercial Metals Company | Eye(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee had been installing new blades on a wire chopper granulator. A metal shard got in the employee's left eye and the employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2020-09-30 | Camden | Nj | Lehigh Hanson | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was unjamming a hopper and suffered a partial amputation of their left index and middle fingers. | |||||
| 2020-09-18 | Farmingdale | Nj | NutraStar Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning an encapsulation machine when her left index finger got caught between two segments of the machine and was amputated. An employee was working on a granulator machine to align the hopper when his right middle finger got caught between the hopper and the base of the machine resulting in a fingertip amputation. Note to user: This record contains two separate events that were reported simultaneously to OSHA by the employer. These events are captured as one report. | |||||
| 2020-09-15 | Saint Louis | Mo | AXENS NORTH AMERICA | Multiple body parts | Vehicle or machinery fire |
| An employee was transferring raw material into a product hopper via a vacuum transfer system. During the bag change process, a flash fire occurred and burned the employee's forearms and face. | |||||
| 2020-09-05 | Fernandina Beach | Fl | Lignotech Florida, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| At around 2:00 AM, an employee was troubleshooting low suction on a housekeeping vacuum system. The employee was clearing a blockage when a rotary valve in the chute under the dust silo hopper closed and amputated his right index fingertip. | |||||
| 2020-09-04 | El Paso | Tx | Golden Peanut Company, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
| An employee had been operating a forklift. While releasing a dumper trash hopper into a dumpster, the employee's finger became trapped in the base of the trash hopper. The left index fingertip was amputated. | |||||
| 2020-08-31 | Fort Worth | Tx | Allied Waste of Fort Worth | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee's hand was caught and lacerated by the blade inside a hopper box. The wound became infected. | |||||
| 2020-08-24 | Dallas | Tx | Niagara Bottling, LLC | Neck and back | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| A hopper lid fell on an employee who was removing a bag, injuring the back of his neck and his upper back. | |||||
| 2020-08-14 | Mayfield | Pa | P A Hutchison Co. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| At about 8:00 a.m. on August 14, 2020, an employee was adjusting a binding machine when its feed hopper lowered and crushed the employee's left index finger. The fingertip was medically amputated. The machine's safety interlock was not operational at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2020-08-10 | Niles | Oh | Vanex Tube Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was trying to dislodge scrap from the exit end of a scrap chute. The scrap chopper in the chute amputated the tip of his left ring finger above the first knuckle. | |||||
| 2020-08-06 | Philadelphia | Pa | Molly Construction | Pelvis | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| An employee was preparing a concrete pump to fill a concrete truck hopper when the employee was struck by the concrete truck, resulting in a crushed pelvis. | |||||
| 2020-08-06 | Sewell | Nj | Millwood, Inc. - CORE Erosion Control Services | Foot (feet) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee entered a hopper with an auger in the floor to tighten screws on the inside of the hopper. While in the hopper, the auger turned on and caught the employee's feet. The employee was hospitalized for right foot fractures. | |||||
| 2020-08-05 | Adena | Oh | Everly Concrete Products Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
| As a hopper was being moved over a concrete form, it caught an employee's right middle and ring fingers against the form. The two fingertips were amputated. | |||||
| 2020-07-14 | Austin | Texas | Central Texas Refuse Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was picking up trash on a route and operating the levers that put the sweep blade into motion to sweep recycling materials into the body of the rear-load truck. The sweep blade knocked some of the material out of the hopper. The employee was pushing material back into the hopper when his left hand was caught by the sweep blade. The thumb on his left hand was pinched and broken. | |||||
| 2020-06-30 | Belle Rose | Louisiana | Waste Management of South Louisiana | Lower leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| A temporary employee was loading a piece of furniture into the hopper of a garbage truck. A glass part on the furniture broke and severely lacerated the employee's lower right leg. | |||||
| 2020-06-24 | Naples | Florida | Waste Management, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was pushing garbage into the waste truck when the blade of the hopper amputated his left ring fingertip. | |||||
| 2020-06-23 | Bay Springs | Mississippi | Hol-Mac Corporation, Plant 3 | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was throwing metal into the hopper when his finger was caught between metal and the hopper, resulting in a finger amputation. | |||||
| 2020-06-11 | Greenville | Texas | International Grains & Cereal | Leg(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was unloading a super sack that was hoisted by a forklift into a hopper when the loops that hold the super sack up broke, causing the sack to fall onto the employee. The employee suffered a broken leg requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2020-06-05 | New York | New York | PINNACLE INDUSTRIES II LLC | Thigh(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was standing on the intermediate platform on the 22nd floor, holding the end of a concrete chute. He was casting the lower section of a set of stairs which spanned between the 22nd and 23rd floors. The concrete chute hung from a concrete hopper that was set up on the 27th floor, and consisted of a series of chutes fastened to one another by interlocking chains on either side. The employee felt a violent jerk and the chute, which was filled with concrete, slammed into his right knee a | |||||
| 2020-06-04 | Struthers | Ohio | Astro Shapes, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was dumping a manual trash hopper. The hopper pinched four of her fingers, causing injuries that required surgery. | |||||
| 2020-05-30 | Providence | Rhode Island | J.H. LYNCH & SONS, INC. | Upper and lower limb(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning a paving machine's hopper with a shovel. The employee noticed that the "auto" button was activated and tried to shut it off. The machine's front apron came down and caught the employee's right foot against the front bumper. He suffered a broken right foot, a broken left collarbone, and a burned right hand. | |||||
| 2020-05-23 | Roscoe | South Dakota | Agtegra Cooperative | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Fall, slip, trip |
| An employee was having his tractor filled with dry fertilizer. He was on the front section of the tractor's hopper box, about to perform a density check on the fertilizer, when he slipped. A sharp object on the tractor caused a degloving injury to the inside of his right index, middle, and ring fingers. | |||||
| 2020-05-22 | Westbury | New York | Walmart Inc. | Fingernail(s), nailbed(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was fixing the coin hopper in a coin recycler that would not dispense change. After emptying out the pennies and coin holders, she was closing the coin hopper when her hand was caught in the closing door. As a result, she suffered a left index fingernail amputation. | |||||
| 2020-05-20 | Portage | Wisconsin | Morski Brands, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a processing line. He was moving to insert a drain plug into a hopper, below an auger, when his left middle finger slipped into the drain hole. The auger amputated his fingertip. | |||||
| 2020-05-19 | Jacksonville | Florida | WinCup Plastics, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was clearing straws from a wrapping hopper. A transfer belt (which fed straws from the extruder machine to the wrapping hopper) made contact with the employee's right middle finger, amputating the tip just above the first knuckle | |||||
| 2020-05-04 | Great Falls | Montana | Mountain View Co-Op | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| After bagging fertilizer, an employee shut off the bagger and began clearing out the hopper at its top. The auger began to turn and amputated the employee's right index finger. | |||||
| 2020-04-22 | Shoemakersville | Pennsylvania | Rahns Trucking, Inc. | Hand(s) | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
| An employee was washing out a concrete truck after unloading it. While the employee was spraying down the fins, the hopper of the truck came down onto the employee's left hand, fracturing it. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2020-04-21 | Lena | Wisconsin | Saputo Cheese USA Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was attempting to remove an actuator pipe/valve combo that had fallen into a hopper with an auger when his arm triggered a sensor, causing a pneumatic valve to close on his right ring finger and amputate the fingertip. The auger was moving at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2020-04-08 | Green Bay | Wisconsin | Winona Foods Inc. | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was cleaning a cheese hopper. Her sleeve became entangled in the mixing rod and was pulled in, entangling her arm. The employee was pulled into the side of a hot tank, which caused burns to her face, shoulder, and chest. The employee also sustained injuries to the right arm. | |||||
| 2020-03-17 | Brookings | South Dakota | LARSON MANUFACTURING | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
| An employee was transferring material contained in a forklift's hopper attachment to the trash. When the hopper was released, it rotated forward and pinched the employee's left hand between a forklift tine and the attachment tube resulting in amputation of the pinky finger. | |||||
| 2020-03-17 | Titusville | Pennsylvania | Grand Valley Manufacturing | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
| An employee was driving a forklift with a hopper attached to the forks. The hopper was full of metal chips. The employee then parked the forklift, released the hopper's dump mechanism, and dumped the hopper's contents into a large receptacle. As the employee moved the hopper back into the upright position, his left hand was caught at the point where the hopper latches into the upright position and the hopper crushed his left middle finger. The finger was amputated from the first knuckle. | |||||
| 2020-03-11 | O Fallon | Missouri | O'FALLON CASTING | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was trying to clear a jam in a line so that flour would feed from a hopper. The employee's right middle finger was caught between a chain and a hook; the first digit of the right middle finger was amputated. | |||||
| 2020-03-06 | Appleton | Wisconsin | Miller Electric Manufacturing Co. | Multiple body parts | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| An employee was traversing south in a walkway, entering a T-intersection in the mechanical components department. A forklift that was hauling a hopper full of scrap metal came from the right and turned left into the intersection. The hopper struck the employee on the left side knocking the employee to the ground. The employee sustained a right forearm contusion, two or three fractured ribs on the left side, a fracture of the left upper femoral head, a fractured vertebra, and a concussion. | |||||
| 2020-03-04 | Perrysville | Ohio | MANSFIELD PLUMBING PRODUCTS LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
| An employee was dumping a dump hopper. The hopper came back down and struck the employee's left little finger, resulting in an amputation. | |||||
| 2020-03-03 | Washington | District Of | Crushing Corporation of America, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was standing next to a dumpster. A hopper was being moved, and the employee's little finger was caught between the hopper and the dumpster. The fingertip was amputated. | |||||
| 2020-02-12 | Crossville | Alabama | MRE Crossville, LLC | Face | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was standing on an upper deck unclogging a cyclone. A steam release caused an explosion panel in the hopper to blow out toward the employee, who suffered a third-degree steam burn to the face. | |||||
| 2020-02-10 | Fabens | Texas | National Pecan Shelling Operations, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was feeding a hopper when her right middle finger was caught in the auger, resulting in a middle finger amputation. | |||||
| 2020-02-03 | Bryan | Ohio | Arrow Tru-Line, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| On February 3, 2020, an employee was dumping a scrap hopper of metal into a larger hopper. The scrap hopper started to slide down the forks, and the employee's fingers were caught between the forks and the scrap hopper. Two of the employee's fingertips were amputated. | |||||
| 2020-01-29 | Dalhart | Texas | Hilmar Cheese Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was operating a dry packaging machine when the machine jammed. As the employee attempted to unjam the hopper, the auger caught and degloved the employee's left index finger, resulting in the loss of the nail. | |||||
| 2020-01-25 | Houston | Texas | AmTex Machine Products, Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by shifting load during transport, nonroadway |
| An employee picked up a hopper with a front end loader. It became unstable and smashed his middle finger, causing an amputation at the end. | |||||