| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-24 | Marietta | Oh | Auto Plus | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was in the back of a truck shoving pallets of plastics into the truck. As he was turning the skid, he missed a step and fell off the back of the truck to the ground about 4 feet below. He landed on his right hip, suffering a fracture to the hip that required surgery. | |||||
| 2019-08-09 | Walton Hills | Ohio | Walton Plastics, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee sustained a left middle fingertip amputation while cleaning a plastics grinder machine. | |||||
| 2018-09-25 | Monmouth Junction | New Jersey | Nuvida Plastic Technology | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| Two employees were trying to start up a plastics extruder after a maintenance shutdown. As they tried to resolve an overpressurization problem, molten plastic began spraying from the screen changer vents. Both employees suffered burns to the head, torso, and upper extremities. They were hospitalized. | |||||
| 2016-02-24 | Bellevue | Ohio | Wilbert, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| On or about February 24, 2016, at 7:30 a.m., an employee was unjamming a plastics grinder when his right middle fingertip was amputated by the grinder's spinning blades. | |||||
| 2015-02-16 | Barberton | Ohio | Ohio Precision Molding | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
| An employee amputated the middle and ring fingers on the right hand while operating a hot stamp printing machine in the Ace Plastics division of the company. | |||||