| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-16 | Leavenworth | Ks | Indiana Industrial Services | Fingertip(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was leveling and anchoring racking uprights using a plumb bob level (attached magnetically to the upright about 3 feet above the ground). The employee was down on the ground tapping the foot of an upright into place with a small sledgehammer when the plumb bob level detached from the upright and fell/slid down, amputating his left index fingertip just past the last knuckle. | |||||
| 2021-05-05 | Houston | Tx | Reaction Group Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was working on a machine that filters concrete into smaller pieces by tapping the outside of a feeder box with a rubber mallet. He then opened the door at the bottom of the feeder box and was unclogging the filter when the rotating paddles amputated two of his fingers. | |||||
| 2021-04-13 | Baton Rouge | La | Sulzer | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was power-tapping a hole in a pump stuffing/packing box using a vertical knee mill. The employee was wiping away metal debris with his gloved hand when the glove became entangled on the rotating tap and pulled the employee's fingers around, cutting through the glove. The employee's left pinky finger was amputated. | |||||
| 2021-04-08 | Bozeman | Mt | Darigold | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was loading milk into the milk tanker from the silos. The employee noticed a leak on the valve stem and went to stop the leak by tapping it. The valve closed on his left ring fingertip and amputated it. | |||||
| 2021-02-21 | Elmendorf | Tx | Mechanical Dynamics and Analysis | Fingertip(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| Two employees were manually tapping holes after destructive removal of studs. They were using a pneumatic ratchet, placed on the socket over the tap, with a stop bar in one of the existing studs. When the injured employee activated the pneumatic wrench, it pulled the employee toward a neighboring stud. The employee's left ring finger was pinched between the tool body and the stud, causing an amputation at the fingertip. | |||||
| 2020-06-20 | Grapevine | Texas | Great Wolf Lodge of Grapevine, LLC | Eye(s) | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
| An employee was installing a new damper actuator on an air handler unit. He was using a cordless impact driver while working from a step ladder. While driving a self-tapping screw into a bracket, the screw bound up in the bracket causing the bracket to spin. The bracket knocked off the employee’s prescription safety glasses and struck his right eye. | |||||
| 2020-03-23 | La Salle | Illinois | Unytite, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was operating a nut tapping machine, that cuts screw threads inside the nut, when the nut became jammed. As he tried to clear the jam, his gloved left hand became caught in the rotating nut tap. He suffered at least one fractured finger requiring surgery, with other fingers receiving lacerations. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-08-30 | Marston | Missouri | MAGNITUDE 7 METALS, LLC | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was tapping the crucible of a bath when the crucible became full. The employee removed the looking glass and molten bath flowed out, contacting the employee. The employee received second degree burns to the arm and abdomen, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2019-07-29 | Beaumont | Texas | Aspen Rayn Enterprises, LLC | Multiple trunk locations | Other fall to lower level 21 to 25 feet |
| An employee was on a roof guiding insulated roof panels into place to secure them into steel beams with self-tapping bolts. He was working with two other employees who were in a scissor lift. The roof panel slipped from the beam at the peak before being secured and fell to the scissor lift below. This caused the other end of the lift to teeter upward, making contact with a 7,620-volt powerline. All three employees were shocked and received electrical burns. The employee on the roof fell approxi | |||||
| 2019-07-01 | Lake Buena Vista | Florida | Bernhard MCC, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was holding 1-inch by 2-foot stainless steel duct strapping. The strapping spun when a self-tapping screw was set into it; the employee suffered a laceration at the base of the left thumb. He was hospitalized, undergoing surgery. | |||||
| 2019-06-18 | Cleveland | Ohio | ArcelorMittal | Nonclassifiable | Fall through surface or existing opening 21 to 25 feet |
| An employee working on an elevated platform fell 25 feet through the oxygen load opening, landing on the lower level of a basic oxygen furnace. The employee was attempting to arrest flames while tapping steel. The employee suffered multiple fractures and second degree burns. | |||||
| 2019-06-06 | Santa Fe | Texas | Dayton Lease & Pipeline Services, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
| Employees were using a tapping machine to perform a hot tap on a natural gas line. As the employees began a three-way bypass, a flash fire occurred. Two of the employees were hospitalized for burns. | |||||
| 2018-05-01 | Fort Collins | Colorado | Transpro Inc | Cheek(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was walking through the shop when she stopped to watch a mechanic doing maintenance on a truck. The mechanic was changing the rear spring axle on the front of the vehicle. The bottle jack was keeping the spring open to pull out the pins. As the mechanic was tapping the pins out, the bottle jack shifted and shot out, hitting the employee and injuring her right cheek. | |||||
| 2018-04-30 | Wheeling | West Virgini | American Electric Power Company | Hand(s) | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| On April 30, 2018, at approximately 3:00 p.m., an employee was in a bucket truck tapping up a new service on a secondary 120/240 volt line when two hot wires made contact, causing an electrical flash. The employee received a second degree burn to his left hand, which was ungloved at the time. | |||||
| 2018-03-09 | Houston | Texas | Advance Auto Parts | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was troubleshooting to find a squeaking noise beneath a conveyor in the shipping area. He was tapping on a bad bearing when his right hand was pulled into the rollers and frames. He suffered a hand fracture and was hospitalized. The conveyor was not locked/tagged out at the time. | |||||
| 2018-01-19 | Hughesville | Pennsylvania | Latex Construction Company | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was attempting to separate a hex socket from the sleeve of an adapter that was used to link a bore machine to an auger. The employee was supporting the hex socket with a finger while tapping the socket with a small hammer to unseat it from the sleeve. The socket gave way, amputating the employee's fingertip with a guillotine action. | |||||
| 2017-02-07 | Plattsburgh | New York | Mold Rite Plastics | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was working on a locked-out machine, which had a chain with slack. He then unlocked the machine and activated it. He was tapping the machine to see if it would speed up when his left distal finger was caught and partially amputated by the chain and sprocket. | |||||
| 2017-01-30 | Palm Beach Gardens | Florida | Florida Power & Light Company | Face | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| An employee tapping in a set of electrical cables into the secondary side of a pad mounted transformer received second and third degree burns to the face when an arc flash occurred. | |||||
| 2017-01-11 | Hardtner | Kansas | Woolsey Operating Co. LLC | Lower leg(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was tapping on the valve. A 3-inch valve fell off the load line and struck the employee's right shin resulting in a broken lower leg. | |||||
| 2016-08-25 | Madison | Wisconsin | Sub-Zero, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was reversing the right-angle pneumatic driver equipped with a tapping bit when the driver caught his glove and twisted it around the tapping bit, damaging his left pinky finger. The pinky finger was amputated at the first joint in the emergency room. | |||||
| 2016-05-23 | Jacksonville | Florida | Malnove Incorporated of Florida | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning the rollers on the printer machine while a coworker was moving the rollers forward inch by inch by tapping the jotting button. The employee's right pointer and middle fingers were pinched between the rollers, amputating the fingertips without bone loss. | |||||
| 2016-03-04 | Lynn | Massachusett | General Electric Aviation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was tapping a part on a milling machine when his glove became caught on the rotating tap. His left thumb was partially amputated under his fingernail. | |||||
| 2016-02-19 | La Salle | Illinois | UNYTITE, INC. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| A maintenance employee was repairing a tapping machine. He was working underneath the machine. To access the conveyor belt, he was moving a product tray out of the way by pushing it. The tray came off the guides and tilted, and his finger was caught between the tray and the machine, amputating his left middle fingertip. | |||||
| 2015-02-03 | Newark | New Jersey | PSE&G Metropolitian Division | Head | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| At approximately 8 PM, 2/3/2015, a worker was struck by a hand-hole cover, sustaining unspecified injuries to the head/face. He was part of an Underground Trouble team assigned to investigate a manhole explosion/no power condition. The initial report is that he was in the process of tapping the cover with a hammer to loosen it when the cover was blown up into his head/face. | |||||