Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-08-30 | Decatur | Il | Archer-Daniels-Midland Company | Fingertip(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
On August 30, 2021, an employee was opening the door to a pallet magazine while operating a forklift. As the employee backed up the forklift, the employee's fingers were pinched between its frame and the magazine door. The employee suffered a fingertip amputation. | |||||
2021-04-11 | Providence | Ri | U.S. POSTAL SERVICE | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee was sorting non-machinable mail into dispatch cages when she tripped on a bundle of magazines that had fallen to the floor. The employee fell to the ground and suffered a left hip bone fracture. | |||||
2020-09-22 | Quincy | Il | ADM Alliance Nutrition, Inc. | Leg(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
On September 22, 2020, an employee was troubleshooting a problem with the tub conveyor on the tub press packing line. The employee entered the automated machine and stepped up onto the magazine between the tub feeder and the conveyor. The employee's foot slipped into the void between the tub feeder and conveyor and the tub feeder activated, pinching the employee's leg. The employee was admitted to the hospital for a broken left leg and muscular damage. | |||||
2019-04-15 | Corpus Christi | Texas | American News Company LLC | Knee(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee was moving totes full of magazines out of his truck. The tool he was using got stuck and flung him forward; his knee struck the floor and was injured. | |||||
2019-01-16 | Paris | Illinois | North American Lighting | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was attempting to clear a jam at an LED attachment machine when the employee's right fourth finger was pinched between the LED tube feed magazine and the horizontal stationary guide, resulting in an amputation to the distal end of the finger (no bone loss). | |||||
2017-08-15 | Idabel | Oklahoma | Setco Solid Tire | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was repositioning a pallet that was misaligned on a batch-off pallet magazine. When he raised the pallet, his left thumb tip was caught and crushed between the pallet and pallet magazine frame, removing flesh and the nail. |