Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-02-05 | Dalton | Ga | Synthetic Turf Resources | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was trying to straighten the synthetic turf when the turf cutting knife engaged and amputated their right ring and pinky fingers. | |||||
2020-09-16 | Morgantown | Wv | Black Diamond Equipment Rental | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was winding synthetic rope onto the hoist of a chipper machine when his thumb was pinched by the rope. The employee's left thumb was amputated at the first digit. | |||||
2020-08-03 | La Fayette | Ga | The Euclid Chemical Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
The injured employee was assisting an extruder line operator when the synthetic fibers wound tightly around his left thumb and amputated it. | |||||
2018-08-27 | Snowmass Village | Colorado | Luis Ortiz Roofing | Brain | Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet |
An employee climbed onto the fourth story roof of a multi-family structure to begin installing flashing around chimneys. As he stepped to connect his lanyard to a lifeline, he slipped on synthetic felt covering the roof and fell approximately 30 feet onto a porch overhang, before falling about 10 more feet onto a concrete driveway. He was hospitalized with a fractured upper front right rib, a laceration to the back of the head, a concussion, and abrasions to the face. | |||||
2018-07-27 | Wilmington | Ohio | Ahresty Wilmington Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was attempting to pull a 12" die when a synthetic web sling that was being hoisted by an overhead crane slid unexpectedly back down the shaft of the die, catching an employee's left thumb between the sling and the die. The employee's left thumb was amputated. | |||||
2018-04-27 | Abbeville | Louisiana | ACADIAN CONTRACTORS, INC. | Foot (feet) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee was walking next to a pipe that was being moved with a forklift when the synthetic strap slipped off the pipe and one side of the pipe fell onto the top of the employee's foot behind the protective steel toe. The employee sustained a dislocated big toe and open and closed fractures. | |||||
2017-07-18 | Apopka | Florida | Prince Contracting, Inc. | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
An employee was walking as a nearby truck attempted to pull another truck using a hook and a synthetic sling. The hook on the sling broke and impaled the employee's stomach, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2016-09-10 | Jackson | Mississippi | EMB Quality Masonry LLC | Ankle(s) and leg(s) | Fall through surface or existing opening more than 30 feet |
An employee was standing on a scaffold to set a stone in place. The stone panel slipped out of the synthetic webbing sling and struck the scaffold platform, causing the planks to separate. The employee fell through the scaffold about 35 feet, breaking his right leg and right ankle. | |||||
2016-04-28 | Clearwater | Florida | Ancortex, Inc | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was positioning steel casing with a synthetic web sling. As he removed the sling from the casing, the casing shifted and pinched his left middle finger between the casing and the clamp set to receive the next piece, partially amputating his left middle fingertip. | |||||
2016-04-19 | Baton Rouge | Louisiana | Byron E. Talbot Contractor, Inc. | Thigh(s) | Struck by object or equipment rolling freely |
An employee was guiding an 8" PVC water pipe that was attached by a synthetic sling to the bucket of an excavator. The pipe was being set in place when the sling slipped from the pipe. The pipe rolled on the ground and struck the employee in the leg, fracturing the employee's upper thigh bone. | |||||
2015-08-24 | Blytheville | Arkansas | JMC Steel Group | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was on a short step ladder removing a synthetic strap used in binding steel tubing/pipes when he fell off the step ladder fracturing the top left tibia plateau, close to the knee. | |||||
2015-06-11 | Erie | Pennsylvania | Eriez Manufacturing Co. | Foot (feet) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
Two employees were attempting to place a rotor on a pedestal stand while using a forklift and synthetic web sling. The sling slid off the rotor, causing the rotor to fall to the ground and hit an employee's left foot. The employee was hospitalized afterwards for foot surgery. | |||||
2015-04-18 | Mcpherson | Kansas | CUST-O-FAB SPECIALTY SERVICES, LLC | Nonclassifiable | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
Employees were moving a heat exchanger tube bundle with a hydraulic crane. The crane had set the tube bundle down on a crawler and the employee had disconnected the synthetic sling from the bundle and used hand signals to the crane operator to rise the main line. The sling caught the tube bundle and rolled off onto the employee. |