| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-27 | Peru | Il | James Hardie Building Products | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On September 27, 2021, an employee was sanding a bar on a lathe and amputated their right ring finger. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-08-23 | Pasadena | Md | Suntex Marina Investors, LLC. | Heart | Overexertion and bodily reaction |
| An employee was sanding the bottom of a boat when he experienced pain in his chest and left arm. The employee was hospitalized for a cardiac event. | |||||
| 2021-08-13 | Jacksonville | Fl | Malnove Incorporated of Florida | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| At about 3:30 a.m. on August 13, 2021, an employee was using a belt sander to repair a part when his right thumb tip was caught between the sanding belt and the part rest. The thumb tip was amputated. | |||||
| 2021-05-27 | East Longmeadow | Ma | East Longmeadow Management Systems, Inc. | Brain | Fall on same level |
| An employee was sanding an elevator door and fell striking their head on the elevator doorway. | |||||
| 2021-05-26 | Newport News | Va | Newport News Shipbuilding Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was sanding a foundation fixture weighing approximately 400 pounds. The employee was working to rotate the fixture 90 degrees toward the ground in order to access the underlying edges. As he was maneuvering the foundation downward, it tipped over and a protruding appendage of the foundation pinned his pinky finger to the floor. The employee's finger was surgically amputated. | |||||
| 2021-03-23 | Cornelia | Ga | Fieldale Farms Processing Plant | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was sanding a shaft that went through a motor and gearbox. The shaft caught his glove, causing him to suffer an amputation of the left index finger and a broken left middle finger. | |||||
| 2021-02-12 | Springfield | Oh | Palmer Manufacturing and Supply, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was sanding the end of a 1-inch-wide, 1/4-inch-thick, 12- to 13-inch-long rod on a pedestal grinder using a sanding disk attachment. The sanding disk caught the rod and pulled it toward the machine, causing the employee's gloved left hand to come into contact with the sanding disk. The employee's thumb tip was amputated to the cuticle. | |||||
| 2020-10-07 | Bethpage | Ny | Hey Day Productions, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee's right thumb was amputated by a sanding disc while sanding metal. | |||||
| 2020-09-29 | Sudbury | Ma | ROBS PAINTING INC | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was sanding underneath a second story roof eve and fell off the roof to the ground. The employee sustained broken bones and lacerations. | |||||
| 2020-08-28 | Steubenville | Oh | Schenerlein & Sligar, Inc. | Face | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was sanding the rough edge of a stainless steel sheet after a plasma cut using a 4.5 inch electric hand held grinder with a sanding disk when the employee's hair was caught in the tool's rotating assembly. The sanding disk cut the employee's left temple and the employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2020-07-22 | Newark | Delaware | DMM Dry Wall , LLC | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was sanding drywall while standing on a 6-foot step ladder. She fell and sustained a fractured left ankle. | |||||
| 2020-07-09 | Hanover | Pennsylvania | Feltchs Machine Shop | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| While sanding an axle on a lathe, an employee suffered amputations to the right index, ring, and little fingers (to the first knuckle), as well as the tip of the middle finger when their glove was caught in the lathe. | |||||
| 2020-06-30 | Houston | Texas | Weatherford International | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was sanding a part after welding it. His right thumb was caught between the metal and the sanding belt and was amputated below the fingernail. | |||||
| 2020-06-10 | Coal Center | Pennsylvania | Woodco Contracting, LLC | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was sanding a pole sander from the top of a 6-foot stepladder when he lost his balance and fell to the floor. The employee suffered broken bones. | |||||
| 2020-05-01 | Omaha | Nebraska | Lozier | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was trying to de-burr a piece of metal with a grinder. The tip of the employee's left middle finger was caught between the part, the table, and/or the sanding disc, causing a partial amputation of the fingertip. | |||||
| 2020-04-10 | Houston | Missouri | THE DURHAM COMPANY | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was sanding the edges of some parts. The sander pulled in the employee's right index finger, partially amputating it. | |||||
| 2020-03-09 | Grove City | Ohio | Antonio Lopez Sanchez | Upper and lower limb(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee fell off a scaffold while sanding drywall. The employee suffered a broken, leg, arm, and finger. | |||||
| 2020-02-27 | Portsmouth | Virginia | NAVFAC Mid-Atlantic PWD | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was operating a disc sander when his glove was caught in the sanding disc. The employee's right thumb was amputated at the first knuckle. | |||||
| 2020-01-14 | Conyers | Georgia | Cellofoam North America, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was sanding a piece of metal with a disk sander when the clamps holding the piece of metal did not fully engage due to a build-up of debris. The disk sander then amputated the employee's right thumb tip with bone loss. | |||||
| 2019-06-03 | Newport News | Virginia | Newport News Shipbuilding Division of Huntington Ingals Incorporated | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was sanding plates on a sander when his left hand was caught between the material and the sander wheel as it was rotating. The employee received stitches on the ring and index fingers and amputated the middle finger at the first knuckle. | |||||
| 2019-05-21 | Batavia | New York | STRONG FORGE & FABRICATION | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was sanding/deburring the edge of an S-hook part against a sanding belt when the S-hook's open end slipped over the edge of the sanding belt drive wheel, pinching the employee's hands between the S-hook and the sanding belt's lower guard. His right middle finger was lacerated, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2019-05-20 | Bath | Maine | Bath Iron Works | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was sanding a chock on a belt sander when their right middle finger was caught in the belt resulting in a partial amputation. | |||||
| 2019-05-04 | Pittston | Pennsylvania | Linde Corporation | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
| A maintenance employee was working alone on May 4, 2019. The employee may have been performing a sanding operation in an office and fallen from a 6-foot step ladder. He was found with head trauma and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-02-01 | Fort Worth | Texas | ATCO Rubber Products, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was sanding a steel shaft on a lathe and performing maintenance when their glove was caught by the shaft pulling his right hand into the shaft and amputating the middle finger at the first joint below the finger nail. | |||||
| 2019-01-22 | Fort Worth | Texas | Epic Lift Systems, LLC | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was sanding product on a lathe with both hands when the employee's glove became caught, pulling both arms into the lathe machine. The employee suffered broken left and right arms. | |||||
| 2019-01-21 | Waco | Texas | Time Manufacturing | Head and neck | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a lathe and was sanding a 1.5 x 20-inch chrome pipe with sand paper when the sand paper became caught on the rotating chuck. The sand paper grabbed his glove and pulled his right hand and arm into the machine, up to his neck. The employee suffered a severe laceration to the face and neck. | |||||
| 2018-09-20 | New Iberia | Louisiana | PREMIER PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT, L.L.C. | Leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was sanding a portion of a work basket placed on a saw horse stand when the equipment fell onto the employee's left leg, breaking it and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2018-08-01 | Oklahoma City | Oklahoma | PRECISION PARTS AND REMANUFACTURING CO. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was using a belt sander to sand down a sharp edge from a piece of metal he had just cut. The belt caught a piece of the sharp steel, causing the employee to move forward. He was wearing leather gloves while sanding and as the metal was pulled in between the rest plate and sanding belt, it caught the glove, pulling his left thumb in between the metal piece and sanding belt. His left thumb was amputated. | |||||
| 2018-07-21 | Mitchell | South Dakota | Graphic Packaging International LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was sanding a thin piece of metal on a table disc sander when a metal piece and the tip of the employee's right thumb were pulled into the gap between the disc and the table. The tip of the employee's thumb was amputated. | |||||
| 2018-05-15 | East Peoria | Illinois | CATERPILLAR, INC. | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee drove a tractor to a paint load station, stood up, and was about to begin sanding an area of the tractor when the employee tripped and fell approximately 2 feet to the tractor tracks, before rolling and falling approximately 4 more feet to the concrete below. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-05-11 | Franklin | Pennsylvania | Graham Machine, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was sanding a part on a lathe when his right index finger became caught and amputated in a hole on the rotating part. | |||||
| 2018-05-10 | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | Walsh Hardwood Flooring | Nonclassifiable | Contact with objects and equipment |
| An employee was hospitalized due to a splinter received while sanding a hardwood floor. | |||||
| 2018-04-09 | Washington | District Of | R.H. Evans & Co., LLC | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was sanding drywall in the corridor of a building when he fell approximately 6 feet from the platform of a wheeled baker scaffold to the concrete floor, fracturing his left hip. | |||||
| 2018-03-19 | Fargo | North Dakota | Space Age Sythetics | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was sanding a fiber board when the employee's hand was caught in the sander, partially removing skin. | |||||
| 2018-02-20 | Springfield | Illinois | Friendly Chevrolet, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| On February 20, 2018, at approximately 8:00 AM, an employee was sanding a vehicle's A/C belt when a pulley caught his glove and pulled his finger between the two, resulting in a right index finger amputation. The vehicle was running at the time. | |||||
| 2018-01-19 | Amery | Wisconsin | SMC LTD | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| On January 19, 2018, an employee was deburring a metal part with an 18-inch disk sander when the sanding wheel grabbed the metal part and then contacted the employee's left thumb. The employee's left thumb tip was amputated. | |||||
| 2018-01-12 | Alsip | Illinois | Kastalon Inc | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was de-burring a metal plate on a sander when his left thumb was pinched between the metal plate and sanding disc, resulting in an amputation to the tip of his thumb. | |||||
| 2017-10-12 | Orchard Park | New York | LD McCauley, LLC | Ankle(s) and leg(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping on uneven surface |
| An employee just finished hand sanding a lugnut/lock, turned off the belt sander, and was returning to his normal work area when his right ankle gave way and he fell to the ground. He fractured his ankle and lower leg. The floor area adjacent to the belt sander was uneven due to previous equipment mounting. | |||||
| 2017-10-03 | Port Neches | Texas | Lion Elastomers | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was sanding down a shaft with sand paper when his left middle finger and index fingers became caught in the lathe. His fingers had to be surgically amputated. | |||||
| 2017-07-21 | Menomonee Falls | Wisconsin | Scan-pac Mfg., Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was working on a sanding machine which had just been turned off, when the machine's belts amputated the employee's fingertip. The belts were rotating at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2017-07-20 | Kansas City | Kansas | Pentair, Inc | Thigh(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was using a grinder with a sanding disc when the disc came off and cut his left leg above the knee. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-07-20 | Marinette | Wisconsin | Waupaca Foundry, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was using a sanding disc to de-burr a piece of steel when the sanding disc partially amputated the employee's left thumb tip. | |||||
| 2017-07-11 | Sandy Springs | Georgia | Supreme Drywall | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was sanding drywall and going from bathroom to living room while wearing stilts (40 inches above the ground) when he fell, twisting his right leg and fracturing his right fibula. | |||||
| 2017-06-20 | Thompson | Ohio | R.W. Sidley, Inc. | Brain | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was sanding the rough edges of a concrete wall while standing on a yard trailer platform when the employee tripped and fell approximately 4.5 feet to the ground, suffering a head injury and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-04-15 | Brandon | South Dakota | Marmen Energy, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| An employee was using a portable angle grinder and a sanding disc to remove weld spatter from a 3-11 shell weighing approximately 11,900 pounds. The employee was checking the alignment of the shell with its flange when their gloved, left hand was caught between the shell and the poly wheel of the roller upon which the shell was sitting/rotating. The employee's left thumb, ring and pinky fingers suffered lacerations that required sutures. His index and middle fingertips were fractured requiring p | |||||
| 2017-03-29 | Marthasville | Missouri | Homeyer Precision Manufacturing Company | Fingertip(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
| An employee was operating a disc sanding machine when the tips of the left index and middle fingers were amputated. | |||||
| 2017-02-21 | Biddeford | Maine | Valmet Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was changing out the tensioner wheel on a roll grinding machine when the pneumatic positioner activated. His left thumb and index finger then became wedged between the positioner guide and the sanding belt housing. His index finger was partially amputated. | |||||
| 2017-01-17 | Chilton | Wisconsin | Central Garden & Pet, Inc. | Pelvis | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was outside salting and sanding the property, slipped on ice and fell breaking his pelvis. | |||||
| 2016-10-17 | Des Plaines | Illinois | J.B. Metal Works, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee's hand slipped while he was sanding the metal part on a 12-inch sanding machine, catching and partially amputating his right thumb between the part and the sanding disk. | |||||
| 2016-10-12 | Holmesville | Ohio | International Automotive Components | Fingertip(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was pressing a small steel bracket against a rotating sanding wheel with his hands and fingers to smooth the edge. The bracket flew out of his hand and amputated the right index fingertip. | |||||
| 2016-10-05 | West Kingston | Rhode Island | Modine Manufacturing Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was using a sanding cloth to smooth a long shaft in an engine lathe. As he got to the end of the shaft farthest away from the chuck end, his glove became caught between the sanding cloth and the shaft, wrapping his fingers on both hands within the shredding cut-resistant fibers of the gloves. He suffered one finger amputation, a broken left wrist, and right hand lacerations. | |||||
| 2016-09-27 | Grand Junction | Colorado | Spendrup Fan Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was using a lathe and sandpaper to sand a piece of metal pipe. As he was sanding the pipe, the sandpaper wrapped around the lathe and then wrapped itself around the second and third fingers of his right hand, partially amputating them. | |||||
| 2016-09-17 | Hanover | Pennsylvania | Treehouse Private Brand | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was using a vertical belt sander to deburr a piece of metal. The metal became caught between the sanding belt and a tool rest, which pulled his thumb into the belt behind the tool rest and amputated his left thumb tip. The sander was guarded at the time. | |||||
| 2016-08-30 | Marietta | Georgia | Lockheed Martin | Head and neck | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was sanding the top of the wing of a C-130. Another employee noticed his eyes rolled back as he appeared to lose consciousness. The employee fell approximately 2 feet from the top of the wing to the wing stand resulting in injuries to the employee's face and throat that required surgery. | |||||
| 2016-08-05 | Stafford | Texas | Puffer-Sweiven, LP | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was holding a piece of metal in his hand and sanding the metal on a belt sander. The belt sander grabbed the piece of metal and pulled the employee's right hand in. His right thumb contacted the belt sander and was amputated. | |||||
| 2016-05-18 | Wichita | Kansas | Capps Manufacturing Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was sanding on a disc sander when his right ring finger was caught in the sander and sanded down to the bone. | |||||
| 2016-04-12 | Oviedo | Florida | Hayman Safe Company, Inc. | Wrist(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was using a sander to clean steel when the sanding disc caught and flipped onto his arm, cutting his wrist requiring overnight hospitalization. | |||||
| 2016-04-09 | Green Bay | Wisconsin | Revolution Industrial Services LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On April 9, 2016, an employee was sanding a metal part using a stand-alone upright disc sander when the rotating sander part grabbed the metal part and the employee's gloved left thumb. The employee's thumb tip was amputated. | |||||
| 2016-01-22 | Lawrenceville | Georgia | Atlanta Attachment Company, Inc. | Multiple upper extremities locations | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee performing sanding operations on a lathe suffered a right arm amputation and left arm amputation below the elbow. The employee had reattachment surgery. | |||||
| 2016-01-18 | Monett | Missouri | ASSOCIATED MACHINIST, INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee sustained a partial amputation of his left thumb while sanding a part using a hand held disc sander. The part grabbed and pulled his thumb into the disc causing the amputation. | |||||
| 2015-12-22 | Milwaukee | Wisconsin | Rexnord LLC | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was sanding a metal part on a lathe. The employee's arm got caught in the lathe and fractured. | |||||
| 2015-12-14 | Flippin | Arkansas | Fishing Holdings LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was sanding the rollers on a 3-axis rail bender. The rollers caught the employee's left hand and pulled it into the machine while a piece of aluminum was going through it, crushing his fingertips. | |||||
| 2015-10-21 | Radford | Virginia | Orbital ATK, Inc. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On 10/21/2015, an employee was sanding a piece of stock on a lathe when he was pulled into the rolling stock fracturing his left hand. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2015-10-20 | Waxahachie | Texas | Cabinet Specialist | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee's hand got caught between the conveyor belt and roller on a sanding machine. | |||||
| 2015-09-21 | Trumann | Arkansas | Tru-Cab, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| While pushing boards through the sanding shaper machine, an employee's hand got caught between a board and the machine. The tip of her right ring finger was amputated. | |||||
| 2015-08-17 | Houma | Louisiana | ASAP Industries, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was sanding a pipe on a training lathe while wearing gloves. The employee's right glove got caught on the pipe and was drawn into the turning pipe, amputating part of his right thumb tip. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2015-05-16 | Hammond | Louisiana | Community Motors, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was sanding a golf cart belt with sand paper while the golf cart was running. The belt caught his fingers and pulled them into the system, amputating his left-hand middle and index fingertips. | |||||
| 2015-02-03 | Wallingford | Connecticut | Live Nation Worldwide, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Fall, slip, trip |
| An employee was walking in a parking lot and turned quickly to see a salt/sanding truck coming through the lot and slipped on ice. The incident occurred at approximately 10:55 PM as the employee was walking to her car. | |||||
| 2015-01-23 | Norfolk | Virginia | Colonna's Shipyard Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| On January 23, 2015, at approximately 6:30 p.m., a worker from the inside machine shop was training another employee on how to sand the face of a flange using a sanding disk mounted onto the tool rest of a lathe. The flange (part of a very long shaft) was on a lathe rotating at approximately 20 rpms. When the worker went to adjust the sanding disk, his left pinky at the first knuckle joint was amputated by one of the holes in the flange. | |||||
| 2015-01-19 | Kreamer | Pennsylvania | WOOD MODE | Multiple body parts | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was feeding the sander on the Hessman Sanding Machine. A panel of plywood (18"x96"x3/4") fell from the buggy and struck him on the head, neck, and shoulders. | |||||
| 2015-01-18 | Norfolk | Virginia | BAE Systems | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| While manufacturing a shaft pin on a metal lathe, an employee in the Bldg. #304 Machine Shop was sanding the rotating pin with an emery cloth. The cloth bound and pulled the employee into the rotating lathe machine, resulting in a left broken hand and lacerations on the right hand that required surgery and in-patient hospitalization. | |||||