| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-15 | Austin | Tx | Renaissance Austin Hotel | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was working on a 4-foot ladder to change recessed light bulbs for a 10-foot ceiling when he fell from the ladder, resulting in hospitalization due to a possible broken left hip and a left hand injury. | |||||
| 2020-08-04 | Pueblo | Co | pewag Traction Chain, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning a sidehook machine. The machine's arm came down and pressed the employee's hand into a recessed area for a mandrel. The hand was crushed and the employee underwent bone reduction surgery to the little finger. | |||||
| 2020-06-03 | La Crosse | Wisconsin | Crown Beverage Manufacturing | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was helping to reinsert a 10,000-lb. die set on a cupper. While pushing the die set in, the employee’s left hand was on the bottom of the die set, with the tips of his fingers in a recessed hole underneath the die set. As the die set slid into place, the employee's fingertips were contacted by the straight edge of the lower base of the cavity, resulting in the amputation of the index, middle, and ring fingertips. | |||||
| 2019-05-14 | Fort Scott | Kansas | Extrusions Inc | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was resetting crimp plates and caught her left ring finger in the crimper head when it recessed into the machine causing a partial amputation of the fingertip. | |||||
| 2019-03-12 | Kreamer | Pennsylvania | Wood-Mode, Incorporated | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was cutting a recessed cabinet panel on a table saw. The panel jammed and then quickly slipped forward into the blade. The employee's hand was in-line with the saw blade as the panel slipped forward and the employee sustained a left fingertip amputation. The machine was guarded at the time. | |||||
| 2019-01-29 | Boston | Massachusett | BOSTON UNIVERSITY | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Direct exposure to electricity |
| An employee was on a ladder working on recessed lighting and was shocked. The employee also sustained a burn to the pinky finger. | |||||
| 2017-01-09 | Madison | Mississippi | ELCON Electrical Contractors, Inc. | Multiple leg locations | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment |
| An employee was on a ladder installing a recessed light when the ladder (which was nailed into the wall) came away from the wall. The employee fell with the ladder, breaking the right femur and left leg below the knee. | |||||
| 2016-07-05 | Loveland | Colorado | Casey's Electric | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was using an 8-foot ladder to remove a recessed "can" for lighting when he lost his balance and fell to the concrete floor, suffering a head injury. | |||||