| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-13 | Warrensville Heights | Oh | Sherwin Williams | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was lifting up buckets in a spray paint booth. The employee lost balance when they stood up and fell to the floor resulting in a broken femur. | |||||
| 2021-09-07 | Sulphur Springs | Tx | Load Trail | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was investigating a possible malfunction in a vacuum cleaner system for removing powder paint from paint booths. While his right hand was in the discharge outlet of a rotary airlock valve on a dust collector, the blade inside the valve caught his glove and pulled his hand further in. He suffered partial amputations to two fingers, losing half of each one. | |||||
| 2021-05-25 | Horn Lake | Ms | Rite Hite Products Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was pulling a dock leveler into a paint booth. The employee's left pinky finger was caught between the riser and a conveyor roller, causing the amputation of the fingertip just past the nail. | |||||
| 2021-05-18 | Coshocton | Oh | McWane Ductile | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by object or equipment rolling freely |
| An employee was rolling 12" pipe from the exit of the large line paint booth to a transfer car. He rolled two pipes by hand onto the transfer car and then rolled the third pipe toward the transfer car. He turned and reached for the fourth pipe when the third pipe began to roll away from the transfer car and pinched his right middle and ring fingers between the two pipes resulting in a partial amputation of the ring finger. | |||||
| 2021-04-20 | Denton | Tx | Peterbilt Motor Company | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| On April 20, 2021, an employee was exposed to a chemical, possibly carbon monoxide, in a paint booth. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-01-07 | Ballston Lake | Ny | C.B.M. Fabrications, Inc. | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| Two employees were moving a 2 ft. x 20 ft. heavy metal railing on a mobile cart into a paint booth for painting. As the employees were positioning the metal beam it became unstable and the end the injured employee was holding fell off the cart to the floor and crushed his right foot. Three toes were amputated. | |||||
| 2020-09-25 | Harrison | Oh | Cincinnati Incorporated | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was collapsing a portable paint booth when the booth tipped forward and landed on them. The employee sustained fractured ribs. | |||||
| 2020-06-05 | Social Circle | Georgia | Masterack, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was powder coating racks in a paint booth. The employee lost consciousness in the paint booth and was hospitalized for acute respiratory failure, heat stroke/malignant hyperthermia, acute renal failure and septic shock. | |||||
| 2020-02-11 | Temple | Texas | Materials Transportation Company | Hip(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee had just finished painting a metal carriage for battery handling. The employee was pulling the carriage out of a paint booth to put it in a blast oven when it slipped out of the employee's hand and the momentum from pulling it caused the employee to fall to the ground. The employee broke the left hip and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-08-26 | Orlando | Florida | Brownlee Lighting, Inc. | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was disassembling a paint booth while standing on top of the booth when he fell 7 feet to the ground. He was hospitalized with a fracture to his left ankle. | |||||
| 2019-08-15 | Burnt Hills | New York | Morris Ford | Nonclassifiable | Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle |
| At 1:45 p.m. on August 15, 2019, an employee was working in a paint booth, preparing a jacked-up car for painting. The car rolled backwards and hit the employee. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-07-01 | Chicago | Illinois | EHC Industries, Inc. | Knee(s) | Nonclassifiable |
| While working on top of a paint booth, an employee suffered a cut to the left knee from a glass panel. | |||||
| 2019-06-27 | Grand Prairie | Texas | Triumph Aerostructures, LLC | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall on same level due to tripping on uneven surface |
| While walking in a downdraft paint booth, an employee tripped and fell on the steel grating covering the pit. The employee suffered broken ribs. | |||||
| 2019-06-11 | Florence | Alabama | Thacker Casket Manufacturing, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate |
| An employee was closing a door to a paint booth. The employee's left thumb was caught between the door and the jamb, sustaining a partial amputation to the tip. | |||||
| 2018-09-06 | Lakeland | Florida | Wastequip Manufacturing Company LLC | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| An employee was standing in a breezeway near a roll-off paint booth taking photos of sub-assemblies when a forklift struck the right side of his body. He suffered a lacerated kidney and contusions. | |||||
| 2018-08-08 | Piqua | Ohio | Crane Pumps and Systems | Heart | Exposure to other harmful substances |
| An employee mixed epoxy paint and thinner (two-part epoxy) and added it to a pneumatic spray gun before entering a negative pressure paint booth to paint a pump. The employee wore safety glasses, gloves, and a half-mask respirator before entering the paint booth. Within 10 minutes of removing the respirator and cleaning the gun, the employee began itching due to a suspected allergic reaction to the paint. The employee was hospitalized for a possible heart attack. | |||||
| 2018-06-21 | Golden | Colorado | Gunslinger Custom Paint, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| An employee was setting up for a work shift and walked past a paint booth with a compromised seal. The employee then suffered an asthma attack possibly due to chemical sensitivity to the spray paint. The employee was wearing a half-face respirator. | |||||
| 2018-06-11 | Elk City | Oklahoma | Tri-Point Oil & Gas Production Systems LLC | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was standing on the top step of a 2-foot stepladder to change paint booth filters. The employee fell off the stepladder to the concrete floor and fractured the right hip. | |||||
| 2018-05-30 | Jonestown | Pennsylvania | Supreme Mid-Atlantic Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate |
| An employee was entering the paint booth and was closing the door when the negative pressure of the paint booth caused the door to close quickly catching the employee's left ring finger and amputating the fingertip. | |||||
| 2018-02-25 | Wayne | Nebraska | Great Dane Trailers | Lower leg(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was using a cart caddy to pull a semi-trailer into the paint booth. The employee was walking backwards and backed up against the bumper of the semi-trailer ahead of him in the paint booth. The cart caddy continued to move towards the employee and struck the employee in the lower leg fracturing the tibia and fibula. | |||||
| 2018-02-20 | Oakwood Village | Ohio | Zoresco Ohio Inc. | Hand(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was pushing a cart with an equipment body into a paint booth when the wheel of the cart caught a raised grate in the paint booth floor. The raised grate caused the equipment body to roll onto the employee's hands, causing internal crushing injuries on the right hand and severe lacerations on the left hand. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-02-16 | Berwick | Pennsylvania | Cheetah Chassis Corporation | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was walking through his department between two trailers to retrieve tools. The employee tripped and fell over a cable that is on a winch to remove trailers from the paint booth. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery for a hip injury. | |||||
| 2017-04-17 | Racine | Wisconsin | Emerson Electric Co. | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was ascending a ladder affixed to a paint booth to service the spray paint booth when he fell from the ladder to the concrete floor fracturing their left tibia. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2016-10-12 | Solomon | Kansas | Solomon Corporation | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was painting a pad transformer (6ft. x 5ft. x 6 ft.) inside the paint booth. The employee was standing on top of a roll around platform ladder when he fell approximately 6 feet to the ground below. The employee suffered a broken arm and a hairline fracture to the pelvis. | |||||
| 2016-09-24 | Hermitage | Pennsylvania | Miller Industries, Inc. | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was walking with a paint booth blasting gun in his hand and tripped over the hose. The blasting gun caused a deep laceration to the employee's left thigh. | |||||
| 2016-06-27 | Springfield | Ohio | Cascade Corporation | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was installing filters on a paint booth and fell seven feet off the ladder, breaking ribs and a collar bone. | |||||
| 2016-06-17 | Garland | Texas | JELD-WEN, INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was placing interior doors on a paint booth conveyor when the employee's shirt became caught in the conveyor. When the employee tried to remove the shirt, the conveyor caught, fractured, and partially amputated the employee's finger. | |||||
| 2016-04-09 | Dallas | Texas | TigerFlow Systems, LLC | Multiple body parts | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was attempting to move a pumping system out of a paint booth. A coworker assisted by lifting the pumping system with a forklift while the injured employee was observing/spotting. The pumping system slid off the forklift forks and pinned the employee between it and the wall of the paint booth. The employee was hospitalized with a broken right leg, broken right forearm, and a cracked sternum. | |||||
| 2016-01-18 | Cartersville | Georgia | TRINITY RAIL | Foot(feet) and leg(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was moving a rail car out of the paint booth. The bolts sheered off the winch base and it came loose striking the employee in the lower extremities resulting in a fractured right leg and left foot. | |||||
| 2015-09-30 | Dothan | Alabama | DUNBARTON CORPORATION, INC. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee felt sick and passed out after spray painting residential doors by hand at a paint booth. The employee possibly overheated. | |||||
| 2015-09-02 | New Holland | Pennsylvania | Haller Enterprises Incorporated | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| A maintenance employee was changing a belt on a fan in a paint booth when the other fans in the booth turned on. This caused the employee's fan to spin, and his finger got caught between the belt and pulley. His left ring finger got crushed and was later amputated. His right index finger was injured and required stitches. | |||||
| 2015-08-17 | Cincinnati | Ohio | Meyer Tool, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment |
| A maintenance employee fell through the roof of a paint booth he was disassembling when the roof bowed. | |||||
| 2015-06-15 | Springfield | Missouri | POLAR TANK TRAILER | Upper arm(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| At 4:45 p.m., on Monday, June 15, an employee was working on a metal frame near the paint booth. When he moved the frame to prepare for the next stage of work, a second frame fell from a stand onto his arm, lacerating his left bicep. He was hospitalized and underwent surgery. | |||||
| 2015-06-05 | Springfield | Missouri | EXECUTIVE COACH BUILDERS, INC. | Nonclassifiable | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was pushing a catwalk out of the paint booth. The catwalk caught on an unknown object. He tried to keep pushing the catwalk forward when he fell over the push bar and hit his forehead on the catwalk. He continued falling over the bar and landed on the floor. He was hospitalized for treatment. | |||||
| 2015-05-27 | Brewton | Alabama | Peach Automotive, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Fire |
| An employee was putting out a fire that occurred in an auto body paint booth and fell, shattering the right elbow. The employee also suffered burns to the arm and torso. | |||||
| 2015-05-15 | Plano | Texas | Service King Colission Repair | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping, n.e.c. |
| An employee walking out of a paint booth tripped while taking off his paint coat. He broke his right femur. | |||||
| 2015-04-09 | Jonesboro | Arkansas | Apex Tool Group LLC. | Nonclassifiable | Collision between a moving and standing vehicle, nonroadway |
| An employee and a contractor were using a scissor lift to reach the top of the black powder spray booth where steel tanks are brought in to be painted. The employee was going to clean the top of the booth, while the contractor was going to work on the lighting in the area above the booth. The product-carrier which brings the steel tanks to the paint booth was not locked out. The product-carrier started to bring a steel tank to the spray booth and made contact with the scissor-lift. The carrier t | |||||