| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-20 | Hatfield | Pa | Clemens Food Group | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was on a ladder re-installing a shaft assembly and bolting it to a polisher machine. As the employee was retrieving the bolts from his pocket, the rigging point on the shaft failed and struck the ladder causing it to tip over. The employee fell backwards off the ladder onto the ground and the shaft assembly struck his right lower leg. The employee suffered an impact injury to their lower right leg and a back injury from the fall to the floor. | |||||
| 2020-02-20 | Arab | Alabama | Progress Rail Services Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| While working on a cup polisher machine, an employee suffered an amputation to the left middle finger at the first joint. | |||||
| 2019-01-25 | Lewisville | Texas | VSPOne Dallas | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was conducting maintenance on a conveyor chain drive on a polisher when their right hand was caught and rolled though the sprocket. The index, middle, ring, and pinky fingers were lacerated. | |||||
| 2017-08-01 | Freeport | Texas | Riviana Foods Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was working at a polisher machine when the conveyor jammed. He reached inside the machine with his left hand and the middle finger was amputated up to the knuckle. The machine was not guarded at the time. | |||||
| 2017-01-04 | Canonsburg | Pennsylvania | All Clad Metalcrafters, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| On January 4, 2017, an employee was replacing a paper roll on a mill polisher machine when his left thumb was caught in a pinch point on the machine. His left thumb tip was surgically amputated. | |||||
| 2015-12-02 | Alvin | Texas | Riviana Foods | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee saw a build up of rice on the rice polisher feed hopper. He shut off the equipment to clean it. His right fingertip got caught in the feed hopper and was amputated. | |||||
| 2015-10-01 | Simsbury | Connecticut | Specialty Saw, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee working on a vertical polisher machine was installing a saw blade. He was hoisting a blade onto an arbor with a spacer. While aligning the blade to the bushing and arbor, he pushed the blade and bushing with one hand and operated the hoist with the other. The blade slipped off the hoist and fell on his left thumb, amputating the tip. | |||||
| 2015-09-21 | Southbridge | Massachusett | UNITED LENS COMPANY, INC. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning a polisher when the machine pulled in her cleaning cloth and caught and amputated her left index fingertip. The machine was running at the time. | |||||
| 2015-06-29 | Carol Stream | Illinois | S.& S. INTERNATIONAL, INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee's right-hand index finger was amputated while repairing a 48" metal polisher. | |||||