Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-10-15 | Omaha | Ne | Phibro Animal Health Corp. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was adding bags of minerals to a mixer. His fingers were caught in the rotating mixer blades while sweeping residual material into the opening resulting in amputation of the right index and middle fingertips. The machine was not guarded at the time. | |||||
2018-04-27 | Longview | Texas | Eastman Chemical Company, Texas Operations | Upper and lower limb(s) | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
An employee was making his rounds when he identified a level indication in the vessel that he was not sure was accurate. He then drained the sit glass and the material (mineral spirits polyethylene wax and ethaline gas) ignited a flash fire, burning his left palm, both forearms, and his left calf. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2017-10-11 | Bentonville | Arkansas | Crossland Construction Company, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
An employee was cleaning a spray gun. He had mineral spirits in the gun and was adjusting the spray tip when the gun shot the mineral spirits into the skin on one of his fingers. The finger was surgically removed and the employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2017-02-15 | Chesapeake | Virginia | Kinder Morgan Bulk Terminals, Inc | Lower leg(s) | Fall on water vehicle |
An employee was conducting rigging operations in a vessel's cargo bay when he stepped back on ulexite mineral and fractured his right tibia. | |||||
2016-01-01 | Croton | Ohio | Trillium Farms | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure through medical injection |
On January 1, 2016, an employee was vaccinating baby chicks with a vaccine that contains mineral oil when the vaccine was unintentionally injected into her left wrist. She suffered an allergic reaction and was hospitalized for an infection. |