Machine Injury & Accidents

Date	City	State	Employer	Body Part	Event
2021-11-03	Bedford Park	Il	M. D. Metals, Inc.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Contact with objects and equipment
An employee was adjusting the hook and scale on an overhead crane when their thumb was crushed.
2021-10-17	Leetsdale	Pa	Libertas Copper, LLC	Lower leg(s)	Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
An employee was attaching a C-hook to a smaller scale hook attached to an overhead crane. The C-hook was resting on top of a coil. The smaller scale hook was not fitting into the C-hook and the C-hook slid off of the coil, striking the employee's left shin and causing a laceration.
2021-08-09	Loxahatchee	Fl	HCA Palms West Hospital	Multiple body parts	Fall on same level, n.e.c.
An employee was weighing linen carts on a scale on a loading dock. She lost her footing while walking backward and fell to the concrete floor, landing on both hands and suffering fractures to both wrists and a lower spine injury. She was hospitalized, undergoing surgery.
2021-06-18	Saint Louis	Mo	Paper Transport, Inc.	Leg(s)	Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area
An employee was exiting his truck to check in with a security/scale house when he was struck by another truck approaching the scales, resulting in a broken left leg.
2021-04-16	Neptune City	Nj	TFH PUBLISHING INC./NYLABONE PRODUCTS	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
An employee was trying to unclog a weight scale bender when a machine door closed on his left middle finger, causing a partial amputation to the finger.
2021-01-04	Riceboro	Ga	Interstate Paper LLC	Multiple body parts	Contact with hot objects or substances
An employee was rodding out scale and lime material from a chute that led into a screw. A chemical reaction took place between the lime scale and the materials used in the process, and the employee suffered first- and second-degree burns to the face and arms from hot vapor.
2020-09-15	Crete	Ne	PACKERS SANITATION SERVICES, INC.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Struck by falling object or equipment
An employee was scrubbing the framework of a stand that held a tabletop scale. As the employee moved the scale, it fell to the floor and onto his left middle finger and amputated 1/4 inch of the finger.
2020-09-06	Garden City	Ks	Sams Club	Knee(s)	Walking, without other incident-single episode
An employee had just finished repurposing chickens on a white tray that was sitting on the right side of a scale. He was moving the tray and stepping from the right to the left side of the scale when he twisted his left foot, heard a pop, and fell to the floor. He was hospitalized with a broken bone under his kneecap.
2020-09-03	Kathleen	Ga	Advanced Disposal	Hip(s)	Other fall to lower level
An employee returned to the scale house after dumping at the landfill. He parked his vehicle on the ramp. As he stepped out of the truck, he missed the ramp and fell onto the concrete sidewalk. His left hip fractured.
2020-06-20	Russellville	Arkansas	ConAgra Foods Inc.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was removing a jam from the vertical raceway bucket scale system. The employee’s right hand slipped into the machine and the pinky finger was amputated.
2020-06-04	Hillsdale	Illinois	Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc.	Multiple trunk locations	Struck by animal, n.e.c.
On June 4, 2020, an employee was trying to get a cow to move from a scale. The cow stood up and pushed the employee against a fence, causing fractures to the left hip, pelvis, and sacrum. The employee was hospitalized.
2020-05-22	Grainfield	Kansas	Hi-Plains Coop	Multiple body parts	Other fall to lower level
An employee was pulling an auger while standing on top of a scale house when the auger gave, causing the employee to lose footing and fall to the ground. The employee suffered a broken left arm, multiple broken ribs on the left side, and a broken pelvis.
2020-03-26	Marathon	Wisconsin	Marathon Cheese Corporation	Hip(s)	Fall on same level due to tripping on uneven surface
While walking, an employee tripped over a 1.75-inch elevated metal edge protecting a floor scale. The employee fell to the floor and suffered a broken left hip.
2020-03-04	Lincoln	Nebraska	Universal Pure	Lower leg(s)	Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object
An employee was backing up a motorized pallet jack. The employee started to step off the pallet jack while it was still moving backwards and her right leg was pinned between the pallet jack and a floor scale. The employee sustained two broken bones in the lower right leg.
2020-02-28	Denver	Colorado	PROTECTO WRAP	Multiple body parts	Contact with hot objects or substances
An employee was changing a sensor on a tank. The scale on the tank read zero so he thought the tank was empty. When he removed the sensor, hot asphalt sprayed out and the employee sustained second degree burns to the face and arm.
2020-02-21	Holcomb	Kansas	Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc.	Ankle(s)	Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area
An employee was working as a trim inspector while standing on a bulk scale when a powered industrial truck operator struck her. She was hospitalized with fractures to both ankles.
2020-01-23	Waco	Texas	Texas Lehigh Cement Compan	Arm(s)	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
An employee was stepping down from a 12-inch-high scale when the employee fell and fractured the right arm.
2019-04-30	East Canton	Ohio	RESCO PRODUCTS, INC.	Knee(s)	Climbing or stepping up or down-single episode
An employee was stepping off of a scale (approximately 6.5 inches) and his knee buckled. The employee was hospitalized for swelling.
2019-03-22	Watford City	North Dakota	Sun Well Services, Inc.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects
An employee was removing slack from a sand line when the downhole tool hung up on a pipe scale. The tool slipped past the scale, creating tension on the line around the sand line drum. The employee's fingers were pinched between the line and the drum; his right thumb and index finger were amputated.
2019-03-08	Niles	Ohio	International Technical Polymer Systems	Fingertip(s)	Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
An employee was helping a forklift unload a metal bin filled with mill scale. When the load was lowered, it slid off the forks and landed on the employee's left index finger, causing the amputation of the tip.
2019-02-20	Denver	Colorado	Darling Ingredients	Lower leg(s)	Fall on same level due to slipping
An employee slipped and fell while climbing onto a trailer. He hit his left lower leg on the guardrail to a scale, breaking it.
2019-01-24	Austin	Texas	R2 Corporation	Ankle(s)	Struck by falling object or equipment
An employee was transferring materials using a dolly cart. As he was trying to load the cart on a weighing scale, it tipped over on top of him, lacerating his nose and lip and breaking his ankle.
2019-01-21	Tioga	North Dakota	Sundhagen Sand & Gravel, Inc.	Multiple body parts	Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids
An employee was inside a semi truck scale. He was thawing out the scale using a portable propane heater. A flash fire occurred within the confined area of the scale and caused second degree burns across 70% of his body.
2018-08-09	Pittsburg	Kansas	Sanderson Pipe Corporation	Hand(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery
An employee was working on the ingredients scale in the blending facility when an air operated slide gate activated and severed the employee's hand.
2018-07-20	Lincoln	Nebraska	Bauer Built Inc	Nose, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
An employee was jacking up a truck at a scale house on the interstate. He was underneath the truck trying to position the jack stand in the correct spot when the truck slipped off the jack and the jack handle hit him on its way to the ground. He suffered a fractured sinus.
2018-07-01	Jamaica	New York	Worldwide Flight Services, Inc.	Leg(s)	Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
An I-beam support fell from the top of a scale, striking an employee and fracturing bones in the employee's left leg.
2018-05-16	Lenexa	Kansas	DaVita Johnson County Dialysis	Back, including spine, spinal cord	Overexertion in catching-single episode
A patient got up from a wheelchair to be weighed on a scale as an employee stood nearby to record the weight. The patient's knee buckled and the patient began to fall, so the employee performed an assisted fall and helped the patient to the ground. In the process, the employee suffered a back strain and pain, requiring hospitalization.
2018-02-04	Colquitt	Georgia	Birdsong Peanuts	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery
An employee was loading peanut stock onto a scale from a hopper. An inspection cover was removed and his hand was inside an inspection-hole opening when another employee started the fan. The fan blade then partially amputated his right middle finger.
2018-01-16	Eau Claire	Wisconsin	AMERICAN PHOENIX, INC.	Lower leg(s)	Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area
An employee was operating a machine when a powered industrial vehicle struck the employee with a pallet of rubber. The employee's right lower leg was pinned between the pallet and the machine scale, fracturing it and requiring hospitalization.
2018-01-15	Attleboro	Massachusett	Leachgarner	Nonclassifiable	Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
While walking to a work bench, an employee felt faint, went to sit down, and tripped over a floor scale. The employee was hospitalized.
2017-09-29	Sidney	Montana	Continental Resources, Inc.	Multiple body parts	Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue
The employee added a liquid drain cleaner to the casing check valve to remove scale build up. The employee opened the system and hit the hammer union between two ball valves to relieve pressure that caused residual chemical in the line to splash back onto the employee's face and body. The employee suffered chemical burns to the face and body.
2017-09-29	Marion	Ohio	Central Ohio Farmers Co-op, Inc.	Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Other fall to lower level
On September 29, 2017, an employee was exiting a scale house when he tripped and fell down the stairs, breaking his ribs and puncturing his lungs. He was hospitalized.
2017-09-21	Calhoun	Georgia	Mohawk Industries	Ankle(s)	Fall on same level due to tripping
An employee was walking when she stumbled and fell on a scale, breaking her left ankle and requiring overnight hospitalization.
2017-08-24	Warwick	Rhode Island	United States Postal Service	Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
An employee had just walked through two double swinging doors to the mailroom. The employee attempted to cross a floor scale and tripped over the edge of the scale. She fell to the ground and as the double swinging doors swung back through, one of them struck her in the head and fractured her neck.
2017-08-01	Galveston	Texas	Archer Daniels Midland Company	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects
An employee was hoisting up the scale weight with the help of another employee. The injured employee had a hand on the cable that held the hoist. When the scale weight got near the floor, the employee's right hand was caught in the pulley and the index finger was smashed. The employee's index finger was amputated and the middle finger injured.
2017-07-28	Monroe City	Missouri	CONTINENTAL CASTING LLC	BODY SYSTEMS	Exposure to environmental heat
An employee was removing scale from a furnace and was overcome by heat stress. The employee was hospitalized.
2017-06-29	New Braunfels	Texas	Producers Cooperavtive Marketing Association	Lower leg(s)	Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
An employee was descending a staircase after dislodging feed bags that were stuck on a conveyor when he fell approximately 6 feet and his right leg struck a cattle scale, breaking it above the ankle and requiring surgery/hospitalization.
2017-05-25	Decatur	Alabama	3M Company Inc.	Multiple body parts	Contact with hot objects or substances
On 5/25/17, an employee was setting up a tote on a scale when a hose came out of the tote, which was being filled with hot deionized water. The water contacted the employee, causing first and second degree burns on the employee's back and foot.
2017-04-13	Baton Rouge	Louisiana	Turner Industries Group, LLC	Fingertip(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
An employee was weighing 55-gallon drums that were on a pallet next to a scale. When he tried to rotate a drum off the pallet and onto the scale, his right thumb was pinched between two drums, amputating the thumb tip.
2017-04-03	Youngstown	Ohio	Vallourec Star LP	Neck and back	Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
Employees were setting a descaler ring into a housing unit. After the descaler ring was put into the housing, the crane began moving away and struck the housing unit which fell over and struck the injured employee who suffered neck and back injuries.
2017-03-27	Jackson	Mississippi	United States Marshals Service	Leg(s)	Fall, slip, trip
An employee was part of a team of deputies apprehending a fugitive on foot. The injured employee scaled a fence and upon impact with the ground suffered a compound fracture to his leg. He was hospitalized.
2017-03-23	Pine Bluff	Arkansas	Rineco Chemical Industries Inc.	Lower leg(s)	Other fall to lower level
An employee was inspecting his 18-wheeler while it was parked on a truck weigh scale. The employee was climbing in or out of the tractor when his foot was caught on the scale railing, causing him to fall to the ground and fracture his tibia/fibula. He required hospitalization and surgery.
2017-02-24	South Yarmouth	Massachusett	STOP & SHOP SUPERMARKET	Pelvis	Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
An employee tripped over a cord hanging from the deli scale and fell fracturing their pelvis.
2017-02-20	Bogart	Georgia	Benson's Inc.	Fingertip(s)	Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects
An employee was operating a scaler at the batter depositor. The depositor needed to be adjusted for the weight of the batter being deposited in the cake pan. The employee was fixing the adjustment handle and amputated their left pinky fingertip.
2017-01-25	Niagara Falls	New York	Guardian Environmental Services Co.	Fingertip(s)	Struck by falling object or equipment
An employee was assisting in moving a portable truck scale when the load shifted, fell approximately 10 feet, and caught the employee's left-hand fingers between the cribbing and the asphalt resulting in three fingertip amputations and fractures.
2016-10-17	Toledo	Ohio	Perstorp Polyols, Inc.	Nonclassifiable	Contact with hot objects or substances
On October 17, 2016, an employee was attempting to clean scale out of a pipe when hot water back-flowed from the pipe and injured the employee. The employee was hospitalized.
2016-10-16	Chickamauga	Georgia	SHAW INDUSTRIES Group Inc., Plant SP	Hip(s) and leg(s)	Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
While an employee was pulling out secondary backing to make a waste collection bag at the scales for warp waste, the employee's feet became tangled in waste on the floor. The employee fell to the ground and fractured the right femur and right hip.
2016-09-12	South Beloit	Illinois	Behr Iron & Metal, Inc.	Fingertip(s)	Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
An employee was adjusting the legs of a floor scale while a coworker lifted the corner of the scale with a pry bar. The pry bar slipped and the floor scale fell and pinched the employee's left index finger, amputating his fingertip.
2016-07-26	Eustis	Florida	Lake Eustis Health and Rehabilitation Center	Upper arm(s)	Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
An employee was walking in the hallway, tripped over a scale, and fell fracturing the upper left arm.
2016-07-13	Columbus	Ohio	Children's Hospital	Thigh(s)	Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
An employee was turning around and caught a foot on a scale in the hallway causing her to fall on her side. The employee sustained a break to the tip of the femur.
2016-07-05	New York	New York	Orange County Ironworks, LLC	Thigh(s)	Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
An employee was lowering the scale box from a Lull when the scale box slid off the Lull and fell on the employee's lower right leg, breaking the employee's femur.
2015-12-11	Stuttgart	Arkansas	Dwight E. Lockhart and Company Trucking, Inc.	Lower leg(s)	Fall on same level due to slipping
A driver was walking around his truck to look at the scales and get the weight when he slipped and fell. A slimy product with moisture was on the floor. The employee broke his lower right tibia.
2015-11-23	Tulsa	Oklahoma	Rustoleum, Inc.	Arm(s)	Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
An employee entered the shipping area to turn off an air compressor. When she turned to leave the area, she tripped over a platform scale on the floor and fell, breaking her arm. She was hospitalized overnight.
2015-11-04	Saint Louis	Missouri	Kindred Hospital St. Louis - St. Anthony?s	Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)	Overexertion involving outside sources
The employee was weighing patients on a hydraulic light scale when he tore his right rotator cuff. He was hospitalized on 11/04/2015.
2015-10-21	Cartersville	Georgia	Shaw Industries Group	Hip(s)	Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
The injured employee was cleaning at the end of the shift. She proceeded to put paper in a recycling bin and turned around to return to the Mega-cutter. As she passed by the weight scale she stepped diagonally across the ramp and caught the back portion of her foot on the ramp causing her to trip. The employee fell forward onto the floor landing on her right hip and fracturing it.
2015-10-15	Lubbock	Texas	Rusty's Weigh Scales and Service Inc.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Struck by falling object or equipment
An employee raised a platform scale out of the framework. The scale fell on the employee's hand and amputated the left thumb.
2015-08-31	Webb City	Missouri	CARDINAL SCALE MFG	Ankle(s)	Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
An employee suffered two broken ankles while hoisting a scale using an overhead crane. The scale had just been painted and was being lifted from a floor platform to be moved to an adjacent area for drying. The employee was raising the scale off the floor platform, taking up the slack of the rigging, when the scale slid off the platform and struck the employee's feet. Both ankles were broken from the impact.
2015-08-25	Deerfield	Massachusett	W T Terminal, LLC	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway
An employee was backing a forklift off a scale. He backed over a wooden pedestrian walkway that gave way under the weight of the machine, tipping the forklift onto a column. The employee's left hand was trapped between the column and the forklift crushing three fingers. The employee was hospitalized.
2015-08-24	Bellevue	Ohio	Bunge North America (East), LLC	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was working on the soy bean preparation line when he caught his hand near a clam-shell-like device that stops the flow of soy beans to the scale resulting in the amputation of his left middle fingertip.
2015-08-14	Pottsville	Pennsylvania	Weiner Iron and Metal Corporation	Leg(s)	Ran off driving surface, nonroadway
An employee was driving a forklift up a ramp to the truck scale when he drove off the ramp, fell off the forklift, and broke his leg.
2015-07-01	Firestone	Colorado	Asphalt Specialties Company, Inc.	Multiple face locations	Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
On 7/1/15 an employee was working at the Firestone Plant in the scale house, when it was discovered that a gate on the asphalt silo had a broken bolt and was not functioning properly. At ~ 12:40 AM while attempting to replace the bolt, his crowbar slipped and struck him in the face. He was admitted for in-patient hospitalization for a fractured bone above the eye (no eye loss/damage) and a fractured cheek bone.
2015-06-24	Plaquemine	Louisiana	Dow Chemical Co.	Hand(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee reached into a packaging scale to clean out polyethylene packaging pellets and the pneumatic gate closed on his right hand.
2015-06-12	Alliance	Nebraska	Dinklage Feed Yards	Nonclassifiable	Struck by animal
An employee was weighing fourteen cattle one at a time. Two cows tried to get on the scale at same time. The employee tried to back one cow off the scale and the other cow ran away. The employee was either knocked unconscious or stepped on by the cattle causing injury. There were no witnesses to the incident.
2015-05-28	Hope Hull	Alabama	Koch Foods of Alabama LLC	Arm(s)	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
On May 28, 2015, a truck driver entered the scale platform from the opposite direction of its designed use. The scale platform was designed with a walking surface on the driver's side and a guardrail on the passenger side. The driver exited his truck and stepped onto the top rail of the guardrail system. It was raining at the time. The driver slipped and fell to the ground. The driver experience a compound fracture to his left arm. The driver was taken to the hospital, treated, and release
2015-05-02	Canton	Ohio	Timken Steel Corporation	Nonclassifiable	Other fall to lower level
An employee was injured in Plant B at the 3-2 straightener during a guide change. The employee was struck by a 1000 pound guide and then fell down the slide/chute into the scale pit.
2015-03-04	Bradford	Pennsylvania	Bradford Forest, Inc.	Nonclassifiable	Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area
An employee was struck and run over by the front left tire of a rough terrain forklift. The rough terrain forklift was carrying a load of logs, and the forklift operator was driving towards the scale. The injured employee was hospitalized.