| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-10-05 | Conyers | Ga | LeSaint Logistics, LLC | Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee was moving super sacks onto racks. The employee was standing on the second level of a rack, approximately 12 feet high, to guide the straps of the super sack onto the forklift blades. The employee stepped onto a board to move closer to the super sack and the board broke. As the employee fell his head hit the racking before landing on a super sack below the racking. The employee was hospitalized for fractured neck vertebrae. | |||||
| 2017-09-01 | Arbyrd | Missouri | Black Gold Farms | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was using a produce bagger machine to fill sacks with potatoes when the machine's pneumatic clamp crushed the employee's left pinky finger, requiring amputation without bone loss. | |||||
| 2017-07-17 | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | IndoCarb Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was helping a forklift operator stack empty sacks on a pallet. The forks of the fork truck were raised, and the employee's right index finger became stuck in an open hole in the fork, amputating his fingertip. | |||||
| 2016-09-13 | Mermentau | Louisiana | Louisiana Rice Mill, LLC | Lower leg(s) | Fall through surface or existing opening less than 6 feet |
| An employee was dumping sacks of rice back into the cutback system when stepped into a floor-mounted hopper and made contact with the auger system, amputating his left lower leg. | |||||
| 2016-08-09 | New Cambria | Missouri | MFA INCORPORATED | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was helping a customer to move feed sacks on the back of the customer's flat bed truck. The employee stumbled and fell approximately four feet to the ground fracturing the left hip. | |||||
| 2015-08-26 | Houston | Texas | Gulf Rice Milling, Inc. | Ankle(s) | Trip from stepping into a hole without fall |
| Two employees were loading rice sacks onto a pallet for shipment. The employees were horse-playing while doing this. One employee pushed another employee causing him to step in between the slats of the pallet and fracturing the ankle. | |||||