| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-08-03 | Cheshire | Oh | Ohio Valley Electric Corporation | Multiple body parts | Direct exposure to electricity |
| Employee 1 and Employee 2 were working on a pulverizer breaker when Employee 1 made contact with the energized parts. Employee 1 suffered burns to their upper body and face, while Employee 2 suffered additional burns. | |||||
| 2020-05-24 | Kronenwetter | Wisconsin | Wisconsin Energy Companies | Fingertip(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was cleaning a welding table when he bumped the table with his body. A 150-pound part from a coal pulverizer then shifted and fell, pinching the employee's left pinky fingertip between the part and the grating on the table. As a result, his left pinky fingertip was amputated. | |||||
| 2020-03-15 | Franklin | Texas | Fluor Enterprises, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was lowering an object into a pulverizer when his fingers were caught in a come-a-long chain. His left index finger was amputated at the hospital and the left middle finger was pinned and sutured. | |||||
| 2018-03-12 | Juliette | Georgia | Zachry Industrial, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| Two employees were breaking a seal between the pulverizer and the pyrite seal box using a prybar. Once the seal was broken, a five-inch gap was left between the two. The injured employee's left hand was in the gap between the pulverizer and the seal box. As they slid the box, it dropped three inches off the shims and onto the injured employee's left hand resulting in an open fracture and amputation of the pinky fingertip. | |||||
| 2018-01-10 | Bartow | Florida | B & R Profiles | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was starting up a grinder pulverizer when he noticed that water was leaking from the pulverizer. As he tried to wipe away the water, his fingers became trapped by one of the pulverizer fins. He suffered a hand injury and was hospitalized. The pulverizer was running at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2016-03-20 | Aberdeen | Ohio | Defcon Force, LLC | Multiple body parts | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
| An employee was cutting welds inside a coal pulverizer when coal dust fell from above and caused a flash fire. The employee suffered 2nd and 3rd degree burns to the face, hand, and arm. | |||||
| 2016-02-24 | Cheshire | Ohio | AEP | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was replacing a pyrite gate on a pulverizer when the gate slipped and struck the end of the employee's left index finger, resulting in a partial amputation. | |||||