| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-09-30 | Spring Hill | Ks | Premier Building Products | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| An employee was assembling truss components with a pneumatic stapler. He was moving the stapler across the truss pieces when he crossed his foot and activated the stapler. The staple went through his leather work boot into the joint of his big toe. | |||||
| 2020-06-29 | Cudahy | Wisconsin | Emerson Electric Company | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was building a box to hold an order for shipping. The employee stapled the first half of the box and spun the box around to staple the other half, but the flap of the box got caught on the platform of the stapler. The employee was freeing the flap when the stapler activated and amputated his left middle fingertip. | |||||
| 2019-09-16 | Atlanta | Georgia | Andersen Logistic | Thigh(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| An employee was putting a wood crate together with a pneumatic stapler. The staple gun came into contact with his thigh and went off, embedding a 2-inch staple in his leg between the knee and the thigh. | |||||
| 2019-04-18 | Minotola | New Jersey | Arizona East Distributors | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was assembling corrugated boxes and was operating a pneumatic stapler when he attempted to move a box that was stuck. His fingertip was then caught in the stapler, resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2018-07-30 | Rice Lake | Wisconsin | BIRCHWOOD MANUFACTURING COMPANY | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was using an air stapler to staple bands on pallets. He tripped on the stapler's air hose and fell to the ground, fracturing his left femur. | |||||
| 2018-04-10 | Tulsa | Oklahoma | Stand-By Personnel, Inc, | Thigh(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| An employee was using an industrial stapler to construct a shipping crate when a 2-inch staple punctured the employee's right leg above the knee, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2016-03-31 | Mansfield | Texas | SKYLINE CORPORATION | Hand(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| An employee was cleaning oil off the pneumatic stapler gun and a staple penetrated the employee's right hand. | |||||
| 2015-06-25 | Omaha | Nebraska | Global Industries | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| While placing cardboard pieces into a stapler to create a box for shipping, an employee stapled their right-hand index fingertip, requiring surgical amputation. | |||||
| 2015-04-16 | Hesston | Kansas | Excel Industries, Inc. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by other person |
| An employee standing adjacent to the process to affix a tag to a wood crate was struck with the stapler nail from another co-worker as they assembled the wood crate using a pneumatic stapler. The nail struck the left side of his chest under his arm. | |||||