| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-03 | Lockbourne | Oh | J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was handling the locking mechanism on a tractor trailer coupling safety pin. The rear locking device popped free and struck the employee's left hand, which was pinned against the upper supporting member. The employee's ring and little fingertips were crushed; the employee was hospitalized, and the fingertips were medically amputated. | |||||
| 2020-10-11 | Eufaula | Al | Equity Group Eufaula Division, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was hooking up a flatbed trailer to a pickup truck. While letting the hitch down onto the receiver ball, the hitch became bound. The employee jostled the hitch pin while continuing to let the jack stand down. The hitch slipped while the employee's fingertip was in the safety pin hole, causing a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2019-08-10 | Southampton | New Jersey | Beechwood Landscape Architecture & Construction LLC | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was checking whether the safety pin on a piece of equipment was locked. The locking mechanism was engaged, and the employee's right little finger was pinched in the mechanism. The fingertip was amputated. | |||||
| 2018-06-04 | Haleyville | Alabama | Fontaine Commercial Trailer | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was installing a safety pin into the locking device on a trailer that was being positioned into a jig. The employee was sliding the safety pin into place while adjustments were being made to place the trailer in the correct position and her left ring finger was pinched between the trailer and the locking device resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2018-04-12 | Midland | Texas | Victory Well Servicing, LLC | Elbow(s) | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
| An employee was checking a power swivel's back-up securing line to see if it was tight enough. As he reached out to slap the line, residual stored energy released, causing the securing line to back spin. The line was attached to a turnbuckle with a safety pin in place. The safety pin spun backwards, catching and lacerating the employee's right inner elbow area and causing potential muscle damage. | |||||
| 2018-02-02 | Greeley | Colorado | SPN Wells Service Rigs | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was attempting to raise the tongs up off the rig floor with a hoist when a safety pin became hung on the floor grating. The employee had his hand on the tongs while trying to see what they were hung up on. At that time, the tongs came free from the floor grating and caught the employee's left pinky finger between the tong body and mid rail resulting in amputation. | |||||
| 2017-08-10 | Tulsa | Oklahoma | Gardner Denver | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was operating an earth magnet when it was deactivated, creating a pinch point that amputated his right index fingertip. The magnet did not have a safety pin at the time. | |||||
| 2017-06-19 | Batavia | New York | O-AT-KA Milk Products Cooperative, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was tightening a valve nut when the hydraulic action of the fluid inside the valve forced the valve shut. The valve closed on the employee's left ring finger, amputating the finger pad (no nail or bone loss). The valve's safety pin was not in place at the time. | |||||
| 2017-05-11 | Big Spring | Texas | Basic Energy Services, L.P. | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| A well-servicing rig crew was tripping pipe out of a hole when the safety pin on the tongs (torqueing device) broke, allowing the tongs to strike an employee and knock him off the work platform. He fell 10 feet, fracturing his ribs and back and lacerated his liver. | |||||
| 2016-07-22 | Bushnell | Florida | Cal-Maine Foods, Inc | Eye(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was walking by as a coworker was replacing a pallet jack wheel and hitting a safety pin with a hammer. A metal piece of the pin then hit the employee's eye, resulting in an eye loss. | |||||
| 2015-10-14 | Williston | North Dakota | Calfrac Well Services Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| The employee was pulling a safety pin out of an outrigger on the telebelt and had his finger pinched in the outrigger. The employee sustained a flesh amputation to the fingertip of the right hand middle finger. | |||||
| 2015-09-14 | New York | New York | Roger & Sons Concrete Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| A worker was attempting to install a safety pin in the self climbing form work system. The platform came down on his hand before any safety pins were put in. The worker's hand was crushed resulting in finger amputations. | |||||
| 2015-08-20 | Austin | Texas | Hospira | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a slitter machine and grabbed the latch. The latch is stopped at 90 degrees by a safety pin, however the safety pin was worn out and it did not stop the latch. The latch continued past the 90 degree angle with the employee still holding it with his left hand and made contact with the metal box that houses the slitter's major bearings. Once the latch made contact with the metal box it crushed employee's left little, ring, and middle fingers. The little finger was amputat | |||||
| 2015-05-27 | Cape Coral | Florida | Oldcastle Precast | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| A temporary employee was setting up a precast form onsite. The employee was attempting to insert a safety pin into the precast form bracket. As he was inserting the pin, his left middle finger was caught between the form and the bracket which crushed/pinched the tip of employee's finger. There was no bone loss; only skin and finger nail. | |||||
| 2015-03-21 | Apopka | Florida | All in One Construction Services, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was painting a building exterior on the job site. He was working around a granite panel when a safety pin came loose, causing the panel to fall on him. | |||||