| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-09 | Wimauma | Fl | Surterra Florida, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning a mint press machine. The rag the employee was using got tangled in the rotating tabletop and drew their finger into the press punch. The employee's right middle fingertip was struck by one of the mint press die punches, resulting in a partial amputation. | |||||
| 2021-08-10 | East Alton | Il | Olin Winchester, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was grabbing a cartridge that had fallen when punches in an ejection cartridge capper came down. The employee's right little finger was amputated. | |||||
| 2020-07-01 | Graham | Texas | Southern Bleacher Company | Lower leg(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was changing out punches in a plate duplicator machine. The machine began to operate, causing fractures to the employee's tibia and fibula as well as a severe laceration. | |||||
| 2020-06-23 | Bensenville | Illinois | Century Metal Spinning Co., Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| A temporary employee was cleaning excess oil from around the air operator machine (punches a hole in material). When the employee inadvertently contacted a button located below the table, the air cylinder moved down and caught the employee's left middle fingertip between the vertical guides, resulting in fracture and partial amputation. The machine was not guarded. | |||||
| 2019-07-30 | San Antonio | Texas | Impact Recovery Systems | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| Employees were troubleshooting a T-nut machine. The machine started while an employee's right index finger was placed where the machine punches, resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2019-07-02 | Broussard | Louisiana | Pro Construction Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was helping another employee (the operator) operate a press machine. The employee was feeding rubber into the press machine, which punches 1-inch-diameter holes in the rubber, when the punch came down and amputated his fourth and fifth fingers. | |||||
| 2016-04-26 | Nova | Ohio | Ohio Carbon Industries, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| On April 26, 2016, at approximately 9:30 PM, an employee was spinning a non-energized rotary press by hand to clean excess oil with a rag. The rag was caught in the spinning press, pulling the employee's hand toward the punches. His right middle fingertip was amputated by the downward punch. | |||||
| 2015-07-20 | Houston | Texas | J-Kraft Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee in the shop's face-frames department was operating a machine press that punches holes into cabinetry. As the clamping mechanism came down, it amputated her left-hand pinky finger. The employee required surgery. | |||||
| 2015-07-14 | Franklin | Wisconsin | Vesta Intermediate Funding, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was operating a fixture that punches a hole through a silicon tube. She attempted to punch the tube again while holding the tube with her right index finger. The employee then manually cycled the fixture to perform a punch and the right index finger interfered with the punch, amputating her right index fingertip. | |||||