| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-02 | Downers Grove | Il | Commonwealth Edison | Multiple body parts | Direct exposure to electricity |
| An employee and a co-worker were getting ready to splice underground wires when a screwdriver that had put on a wall made contact with the old wire, causing a flash. The employee suffered burns to their arm, hand, leg, and face that required hospitalization. | |||||
| 2021-06-02 | Swedesboro | Nj | Neshaminy Electrical Contractors, Inc. | Eye(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was using a screwdriver to clean out a hole saw attached to a drill. The drill was activated and the blunt end of the screwdriver struck the employee in the right eye. The employee suffered bleeding to the eye and permanent vision loss. | |||||
| 2021-02-01 | Wichita | Ks | Pratt Industries | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| The injured employee was manually moving a belt into position on a four belt gear pulley. The machine was locked out at the time. While walking belt #1 over onto the pulley where belt #2 had broken off, the injured employee had a co-worker manually rotate the shaft on the other side of the machine to help walk the belt into position. The injured employee was pulling up on the belt with his right hand and was using a screwdriver with his left hand to move the belt. The rotating shaft then reverse | |||||
| 2020-09-17 | Orange | Ct | U-Haul Company of Connecticut | Wrist(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was changing a blade on a utility knife/scrapper. As he was tightening the screw that holds the blade in place, the screwdriver slipped, causing his wrist to slide across the blade. He suffered a laceration and puncture wound on his wrist. | |||||
| 2020-05-26 | Stevens Point | Wisconsin | Ortho-Molecular Products Inc | Eye(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was disassembling a cubicle with a screwdriver when the screwdriver slipped and impaled the employee right below the right eye. | |||||
| 2020-04-20 | Orange Beach | Alabama | Brett/Robinson Gulf Corporation | Wrist(s) and arm(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was using a flat-bladed screwdriver to remove a screw out of a concrete wall in preparation to paint the wall. As he applied force to remove the screw, the screwdriver slipped and lacerated his left arm/wrist area, causing a vascular bleed that required surgery and hospitalization. | |||||
| 2019-09-17 | Big Lake | Texas | West Texas Utility Services LLC | Hand(s) | Direct exposure to electricity |
| While performing a break-out and disassembling equipment on-site, an employee removed the meter cover. Then, while removing the bypass blades with pliers and a screwdriver, the screwdriver contacted the meter box, causing an arc flash. The employee sustained second degree burns on his face, chest, and left hand, and sustained a second/third degree burn on his right hand. | |||||
| 2019-06-19 | Austin | Texas | ATX Environmental Solutions | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning a 3-way valve (ball type), using a 10-inch screwdriver to remove process powder. A vacuum hose was attached to the other end of the 3-way valve to suck out the powder removed by the screwdriver. While he was cleaning, the screwdriver became stuck inside the valve. After several attempts to remove the screwdriver from the valve, the employee then placed his hand on the side of the valve to generate force to remove the screwdriver. Once the screwdriver was freed from the v | |||||
| 2019-04-18 | Victoria | Texas | TOFV, LLC | Eye(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was working in an oil lube area and pulled on a bungie cord attached to an oil drain pan stand. The cord dislodged a flat tip screwdriver that was in the nipple valve of the oil drain pan. The screwdriver flew and hit the employee in the eye, causing an injury that required hospitalization. | |||||
| 2019-02-11 | Fort Myers | Florida | Conditioned Air Company of Naples, LLC | Eye(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was breaking loose a sheet metal duct connection that was sealed with pure duct seal using a flat head screw driver. The screwdriver slipped and struck his left eye. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-01-26 | Menomonee Falls | Wisconsin | Harley-Davidson, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was clearing a jam in a gear machine. The employee cleared the jam using a small torque wrench, but another part jam occurred right behind the original jam. After unjamming those parts, the employee used a screwdriver to hold the parts back and his left index finger to prevent the next parts from coming down the track. One of the parts was released and caused the sensor to call for another part. The gate came down and cut his index finger resulting in a partial amputation. | |||||
| 2018-09-12 | Orlando | Florida | Bright Future Electric, LLC | Eye(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was using a screwdriver when it slipped from the employee's hand and struck the employee's left eye. Safety glasses were not worn at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2018-08-06 | Wellborn | Florida | Frier Finance, Inc. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| A maintenance employee had just tightened a deer stand's railing using a battery-operated screwdriver. As he was descending the stairs, he slipped, fell 12 feet to the ground, and suffered fractures to the right wrist and ribs and a punctured right lung. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-06-01 | Fonda | New York | Keymark Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| A maintenance employee was working on a bailer compactor. He inserted a screwdriver into the chain to give it slack to reset the chain to the sprocket. The screwdriver slipped, and the chain came down catching his left ring finger between the chain and sprocket and amputating a small part of the fingertip. | |||||
| 2018-05-03 | Pittsfield | Massachusett | COGHLIN ELECTRIC | Fingertip(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| On May 3, 2018, an employee was opening the concrete composite cover of a hand hole with a screwdriver when the cover slipped off the screwdriver and fell on the employee's finger, pinching off the fingertip. | |||||
| 2018-04-28 | Rome | Georgia | Syntec Industries, LLC | Fingernail(s), nailbed(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was checking a possible problem with a chain and sprocket while holding a screwdriver with his left hand. He attempted to jog the machine over and the chain caught the screwdriver. The nail and underlying part of one of his fingers was then pinched off. | |||||
| 2018-04-20 | Dallas | Texas | Zalkin Americas | Hand(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was working on a customer's packaging machine when the employee's screwdriver slipped and punctured the employee's hand. | |||||
| 2018-02-05 | Omaha | Nebraska | SUPERIOR LIGHTING INCORPORATED | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was on a ladder removing a light fixture with a screwdriver when he fell backwards off the ladder from approximately 4 feet, injuring his right arm and pelvis. | |||||
| 2017-10-17 | Woodward | Oklahoma | Bruce ELectrical Solutions, LLC | Hand(s) | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| An employee was doing preventative maintenance at a 480-volt motor control center. He was holding a screwdriver in his hand while tightening connections and cleaning at the line side of the breaker when an arc flash occurred. He suffered second degree burns to both hands. | |||||
| 2017-05-25 | Hazleton | Pennsylvania | Multi-Plastics Extrusions, Incorporated | Hand(s) | Struck against object or equipment |
| An employee was using a large screwdriver to clean hot plastic from the stationary cutting head of an operating repellitizer when the employee's right hand slipped and struck the cutting head blades, severing two tendons and lacerating the hand. | |||||
| 2017-01-21 | Florissant | Missouri | NPC International, Inc. | Head and trunk | Stabbing, cutting, slashing, piercing |
| An assailant used a screwdriver to stab an employee's eye and back in the parking lot. The employee was hospitalized overnight. | |||||
| 2016-08-16 | Duluth | Georgia | Gerdau Ameristeel US, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was feeding rebar coil into a coil bender machine. He was trying to free a jammed coil from the measuring wheel with a screwdriver when the tool became jammed in the measuring wheel. This caused the coil to snag his glove and drag his thumb and index finger back into the transport wheels. His right index finger was partially amputated. | |||||
| 2016-08-05 | Houston | Texas | ECO-STAFF, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee hurt his finger while using a screwdriver to perform electrical work. | |||||
| 2016-06-05 | Green Bay | Wisconsin | TNT Crust | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was repairing dough dividers and was releasing tension on the sprocket and chain using a screwdriver. The screwdriver slipped, and the employee's thumb tip was caught and amputated in the chain and sprocket assembly. | |||||
| 2016-04-21 | Middletown | Delaware | M Auger Enterprises, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| An employee was working with a screwdriver to remove a screw from a 480-volt circuit breaker when he hit an energized switchboard. An arc flash occurred, burning the employee's face and arm and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2016-03-30 | Fort Irwin | California | Engineering Remediation Resources Group | Hand(s) | Explosion, n.e.c. |
| An employee was using a screwdriver to clean the dirt from the nose of the fuse. This caused the fuse to detonate and the back end of the fuse punctured his hand. | |||||
| 2015-12-10 | Miami | Florida | Memorial Plan, LLC | Multiple body parts | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was replacing rusted screws on crypt plates using a hand held screwdriver. The employee was struck in the head by a crypt plate that came loose and fell. The employee suffered head and pinky finger lacerations requiring stitches. | |||||