Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-11-09 | Tyrone | Pa | Steller Innovations LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was running a board through a joiner when a piece of wood got stuck. As the employee attempted to release it, the joiner knives caused amputations to three fingers. | |||||
2021-08-12 | Saginaw | Tx | STANDARD MEAT COMPANY | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was operating a packaging machine. As he tried to remove a piece of plastic that was stuck inside the machine, one of the machine's knives cut his right ring finger and nicked his right little finger. The tip of the ring finger was amputated. | |||||
2021-08-04 | Round Lake | Il | Baxter Healthcare Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was clearing a jammed machine. The machine activated and the employee's left index fingertip was caught in its cutting knives compartment. The fingertip was amputated. | |||||
2021-07-27 | Gurdon | Ar | Georgia-Pacific, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
At about 5:30 a.m. on July 27, 2021, an employee was changing knives on a piece of equipment. The equipment rotated onto his left hand, and the blades amputated his middle and ring fingers between the first knuckle and the fingernail. | |||||
2021-05-19 | Thomasville | Ga | Blackwater Timber Co. LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
A molder machine jammed and was turned off. Its still rotating knives caught an employee's hand, causing the amputation of the index finger. | |||||
2021-02-26 | Franklin Park | Il | KOCH MEAT CO., INC. dba Koch Foods | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was trying to remove jammed packing plastic from a machine. The machine's cutting knives activated and amputated the tip of the employee's left middle finger. | |||||
2020-10-12 | Minster | Oh | Precision Strip, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was setting up slitter knives to be sharpened on a knife grinder when their right middle finger was crushed between a level used to align the grinding wheel and the grinding wheel guard. The employee sustained amputation of their right middle finger between the first and second knuckle. | |||||
2020-08-17 | Lexington | Ne | Tyson Foods, Inc. | Hand(s) | Struck against object or equipment while moving it |
An employee was grabbing a knife tub containing approximately 40 knives when the employee's left hand entered a hole on the bottom of the tub and contacted a knife blade, causing a laceration. | |||||
2020-06-07 | Chicago | Illinois | Rose Packing Company, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was using a napkin to wipe away dirt on a macerator machine. The employee's left hand was pulled into the machine, and its knives amputated two of the employee's fingers. | |||||
2019-09-14 | Jackson Center | Pennsylvania | International Timber & Veneer LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
A maintenance employee changed the knives on the hog barrel while the machine was locked out. After installing the new knives, the employee had to spin the barrel to ensure the knives did not hit the machine. As the barrel was spinning, his left hand was struck by a knife. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery on his left thumb. | |||||
2019-06-01 | Aliceville | Alabama | Lewis Brothers Lumber Co. Inc. | Multiple body parts | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
An employee had just finished installing knives on a planer. When power was connected and the machine was started, a knife broke and part of it flew into the employee's left forearm and head. | |||||
2019-04-19 | Menasha | Wisconsin | Dura-Fibre, LLC | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was performing maintenance on a baler. Knives on the baler amputated the employee's right hand. | |||||
2019-03-14 | Lake Park | Georgia | Trejo Labor Service, L.L.C. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was overseeing a carrot bagging machine. A bag got stuck in the machine; while the employee was trying to remove it, the machine's knives cut off the tip of his right index finger. | |||||
2018-08-29 | Council | Idaho | Western Timber Products, Inc. | Hand(s) | Fall onto or against object on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee tripped and fell into a molding machine opening. The machine's knives injured his hand, exposing and cutting two tendons. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2018-08-20 | Lumber City | Georgia | Telfair Forest Products, LLC | Foot (feet) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was attempting to clear a jam on the back side of a shaver box when he stepped over the handrails and slipped, coming into contact with the shaver knives. His right foot was amputated and he was hospitalized. The shaver heads were not locked out at the time of the incident. | |||||
2018-03-21 | Rice Lake | Wisconsin | AMERICAN EXCELSIOR COMPANY | Tooth (teeth) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
An employee was preparing to change knives on a wood cutting machine when the moving plate struck the guard that had the knife block resting on top of it. The movement of the plate launched the knife block into the air. The block then struck the employee, causing facial injuries and broken teeth. | |||||
2017-10-14 | Amarillo | Texas | Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was operating a grinding stone to sharpen knives and amputated a fingertip. | |||||
2017-09-29 | Laclede | Idaho | Idaho Forest Group, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was unplugging a chipper when the employee's right hand made contact with the chipper knives, amputating the distal tip of the small finger. | |||||
2017-09-23 | Humble | Texas | CDI Energy Products | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
On September 23, 2017, at approximately 6:40 an employee was helping another employee to remove build up on an energized fabric cutter roller using a putty knife. The putty knife and the employee's hand were pulled into the knives, resulting in amputation of the distal tip of the right middle finger. The machine was not guarded or locked out at the time. | |||||
2017-09-13 | Dallas | Texas | FrankieV?s Kitchen, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was removing jammed film from a sleever machine. The machine started, which engaged the auto knives, and amputated the employee's right index fingertip. | |||||
2017-09-03 | Norcross | Georgia | Pappas Restaurants, Inc. | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was cleaning kitchen knives when a knife punctured his abdomen. | |||||
2017-08-21 | Blanca | Colorado | Blanca Forestry Products, Inc. | Hand(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping |
An employee tripped into the side head knives of a planer machine, lacerating his hand and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2017-07-06 | Gainesville | Georgia | Prime Pak Foods Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was using a pair of pliers to clear jammed chicken from a cuber machine when the employee's left hand was pulled into the machine's knives, lacerating and partially amputating the ring and pinky fingers. | |||||
2017-03-07 | Valley City | Ohio | THREE D METALS INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was taping knives on the 60" metal slitter machine at the entry side of the machine. When the machine was jogged three fingers on the employee's left hand were amputated. | |||||
2017-01-18 | Dalton | Georgia | Garland Sales | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee's left middle and ring fingers were partially amputated by the knives on a cutter machine. | |||||
2016-09-15 | Macon | Georgia | Aspen Products Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was unjamming a machine when the scrap knives struck the employee's right middle finger, amputating the fingertip. | |||||
2016-07-06 | Hannibal | Missouri | BUCKHORN RUBBER PRODUCTS INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was attempting to help the mill operator start a strip of sticky rubber on the take-off belt when his left index finger came into contact with the mill knives and was amputated behind the nail bed in front of the first knuckle. | |||||
2016-06-06 | Chester | Illinois | Gilster Mary Lee Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
On June 6, 2016, at 1 p.m., an employee was lining up pasta to thread it through the holes of the pasta press machine when his hand contacted the rotating knives in the machine, amputating his left index fingertip. | |||||
2016-06-04 | Little Chute | Wisconsin | Trilliant Food & Nutrition | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was trying to remove something that was caught in a film cutter machine when the knives severed the employee's right index finger at the first digit. The machine was running at the time of the incident. | |||||
2016-05-11 | Chopin | Louisiana | Martco, LLC - Chopin | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
An employee was changing the knives on a veneer lathe when two of his left-hand fingers were severely lacerated. |