| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-09 | Pensacola | Fl | Gat Airline Ground Support | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
| An employee was helping marshal a UPS truck back into a trolley. His thumb was pinned and crushed between the trolley and the truck, and he was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-08-14 | Canton | Oh | Fresh Mark Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee had just checked the temperature of some product on a trolley and was trying to pull the trolley back into a chiller. The trolley instead followed the overhead rail system to a different chiller, hit the rail stop mechanism there, derailed, and fell to the ground. The employee was pinned under it and suffered a broken left tibia. | |||||
| 2021-07-24 | Gibbon | Ne | Gibbon Packing, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| A meat hook trolley fell, catching an employee's hand on a tray. The employee's right little fingertip was amputated. | |||||
| 2021-06-22 | Fayetteville | Ga | Thine Selves Productions, LLC | Multiple body parts | Struck by object or equipment |
| An employee was moving a chain and trolley while preparing to hoist a wooden set wall into position. The chain broke and the trolley hoist struck the employee, resulting in a contusion on their back left shoulder blade, as well as a laceration to the medial aspect of the left orbit. | |||||
| 2021-03-10 | Sioux Falls | Sd | Smithfield Foods, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| An employee had been observing the trolley line. His hand came in contact with a pinch point on the trolley where the carcass changes direction to proceed into the deep chill cooler. The employee sustained a partial amputation of his left ring finger. | |||||
| 2020-09-09 | Loudon | Nh | Pleasant View Gardens Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was loading a trolley full of plants onto a truck. The trolley rolled off the truck and the employee was pulled over with it, falling to the ground and suffering a broken left tibia. | |||||
| 2020-05-25 | Mcgehee | Arkansas | Helena Agri-Enterprises, LLC | Head and trunk | Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet |
| An employee was on the roof of a fertilizer storage building, shoveling fertilizer that had spilled out through the hole in the roof. He slipped and fell down 20 feet of roof, then dropped 12 feet straight onto a trolley rail, then fell from the rail to the ground 18 inches below. The employee suffered three brain bleeds, a broken fractured left wrist, stomach injury, a kidney injury, a fractured eye socket, a pelvis fracture, a gash in the forehead (requiring stitches), and a cut that left skin | |||||
| 2020-01-10 | Cartersville | Georgia | Shaw Industries Inc. Plant 12 | Hand(s) and finger(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was applying plastic stretch film to a roll of carpet using a trolley-mounted stretch film head. The film tore and retracted back into the head of the film machine, wrapping around some small middle tension rollers. The employee was removing the film from the rollers with scissors when the machine activated and fed more film. His gloved left hand was caught between the small rollers and the lid of the stretch wrap machine, causing friction burns to the back of the hand, the little fi | |||||
| 2019-09-20 | Bellmawr | New Jersey | United States Postal Service | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was moving mail from a flat sorter area to a trolley. As he left the flat sorter area, he tripped over an all-purpose-container and fell to the ground, breaking his left hip. | |||||
| 2019-07-16 | Amarillo | Texas | Tyson Fresh Meats | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was working on the harvesting floor as a steamback operator. The trolley came into the room and the employee removed it from the track. The employee's fingers were pinched by the trolley wheel and rail and a fingertip was amputated. | |||||
| 2019-07-09 | Atlantic City | New Jersey | Caesars Entertainment Group | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by rolling object or equipment being pushed by injured worker |
| An employee was pulling a steel trolley. The employee's left thumb was caught between the trolley and a door frame, causing a loss of tissue and the nail. | |||||
| 2019-05-01 | Monaca | Pennsylvania | ATI Flat Rolled Products | Lower leg(s) | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
| Employees were lifting the top plate from a stack of finished steel plates using an overhead crane. The plate hooks were inserted and positioned for hoisting. The crane’s trolley travel button was pressed. The steel plate began to slide off the stack and contacted an employee below the left knee, pinching the lower left leg between the plate and an adjacent stack of plates. The employee sustained a laceration to the left lower leg. | |||||
| 2019-04-22 | Bridgeview | Illinois | Micron Metal Finishing, LLC | Foot (feet) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was standing inside a scissor lift changing a trolley on a hoist. The scissor lift came down and pinched both of the employee's feet. | |||||
| 2018-09-07 | Delaware | Ohio | Liberty Technology | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee of Liberty Technology was setting a pattern on a trolley using a hoist. His fingertip was caught between the form and the carriage and amputated. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-08-27 | Sugar Land | Texas | ACCREDO PACKAGING, INC. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was letting air out of a shaft with his finger when a second employee engaged the roll handling trolley. The first employee's finger was pinched between the core of the roll and the shaft, resulting in a left middle fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2018-08-14 | Amarillo | Texas | Owens Corning, LLC | Wrist(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was installing electric cables to an overhead conveyor (vertical trolley) for an e-stop when his sleeve was caught on a sprocket, causing his hand to be drawn into the area. He suffered a fractured left wrist. | |||||
| 2018-05-14 | Princeton | West Virgini | Princeton Community Hospital | Leg(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| On May 14, 2018, an employee was manually moving a laundry trolley system and became caught and crushed between the system and the trolley. The employee suffered abrasions to the legs and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-05-08 | Decatur | Arkansas | Simmons Prepared Foods Inc | Arm(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| The injured employee was wiping off condensation from a drip pan located above the poultry processing machine. The employee reached his hand above the machine and his hand became wedged between a trolley rail and the machine resulting in a fracture to the employee's right arm and lacerations to the right hand. | |||||
| 2018-04-25 | Omaha | Nebraska | Gordmans | Brain | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was pulling clothes on an overhead trolley when the overhead trolley jumped on a curb, came off, and hit her head. She was hospitalized with a concussion. | |||||
| 2018-03-14 | Perry | Ohio | SOUTH SHORE CONTROLS | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Nonclassifiable |
| An employee was manually releasing the hand brake on a trolley when his left pinky finger was pinched between the trolley and a rail, resulting in a partial amputation. | |||||
| 2018-03-13 | Mount Orab | Ohio | PJ TRAILERS MANUFACTURING, INC. | Ankle(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was moving a trailer from the blasting area to the paint shop using a hook attached to a trolley. The hook disengaged from the trailer, allowing it to fall on and break the employee's right ankle. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-10-10 | Madison | Wisconsin | Amcor Flexibles Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was rolling a trolley away from a coating press. As he was attempting to wheel the trolley between raw material rolls that were on the floor and a cart holding a cylinder, his right pinky finger was smashed between the corner of the trolley and the end of the cylinder. His fingertip was amputated down to the first knuckle. | |||||
| 2017-10-06 | Hatfield | Pennsylvania | Clemens Food Group | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was pushing a rack of product from one location to another when the trolley of the rack fell off the rail, crushing the employee's big toe and requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2017-09-21 | Darrow | Louisiana | COOPER/T. SMITH STEVEDORING COMPANY, INC | Leg(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
| An employee was descending from an aft crossover to reach bolts on a rig conveyor when a bucket trolley struck his right leg and foot, breaking and lacerating his right leg. | |||||
| 2017-09-08 | Piqua | Ohio | Jackson Tube Service, Inc. | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Overexertion involving outside sources |
| While moving a crane trolley wheel from a catwalk onto an extendable boom lift, an employee suffered back pain and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-08-11 | Wildwood | Florida | Ta Chen International | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was fixing an overhead crane. His right hand was on the crane's trolley rail when the crane operator jogged the trolley, pinching and amputating his small right finger between the wheel and the trolley rail. | |||||
| 2017-03-30 | Sulphur Springs | Texas | FLOWSERVE CORPORATION | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was conducting a test on a valve, located on a trolley system. The valve is hydrostatically tested. The valve fell off the trolley system and landed on the employee, resulting in amputation of the employee's index and ring fingers. | |||||
| 2017-03-09 | Lubbock | Texas | Rush Enterprises, Inc. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by object or equipment |
| An employee was jacking up a vehicle with a bottle jack when the vehicle slipped off the jack, striking the trolley which then struck the employee pushing him up against the wall of the service pit and breaking four ribs. | |||||
| 2016-10-18 | Brundidge | Alabama | SWISSLOG Logistics, Inc. | Thigh(s) | Struck by rolling object or equipment-other than powered vehicle, n.e.c. |
| An employee was evaluating a defaulted/de-energized trolley kart when the trolley kart self-energized and rapidly moved toward the employee. The employee was struck by the trolley kart and pinned between a conveyor and the bumper of the kart causing a laceration to the left inner thigh. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2016-09-13 | Little Rock | Arkansas | Lexicon, Inc | Lower leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was operating an overhead crane. He was moving the overhead trolley into position over the load by trolleying toward his position. The hook of a rigging chain caught on the flange of an I-beam girder to be moved, knocking the 4,600 lb. girder over onto him. The flange of the girder struck his lower left leg, causing a compound fracture just above the ankle. | |||||
| 2016-08-06 | Kennebunk | Maine | York County Community Action Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was attempting to fix air conditioning vents on a trolley when the fan blades inside the air conditioning unit amputated his fingertip. | |||||
| 2016-04-24 | Tulsa | Oklahoma | AAON, INC. | Lower leg(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was operating a sheet metal bender when a part became lodged in the machine. When the employee attempted to remove the part, the trolley that moved it through the machine hit the employee in the leg, breaking the left tibia. | |||||
| 2016-03-24 | West Point | Georgia | MOBIS Alabama LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was putting parts on the trolley conveyor in the sequencing area when his fingers were caught in a chain and sprocket, amputating his right ring and pinky fingers at the second knuckle. | |||||
| 2016-02-24 | Trappe | Pennsylvania | Accellent | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was pushing tubing into a draw bench when a trolley caught the employee's fingertip, causing an avulsion. | |||||
| 2016-02-04 | The Woodlands | Texas | Baker Hughes | Forearm(s) | Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was trying to put a bit in a lifting rig for transport via a trolley crane. As he was extending his right arm it made contact with a sharp edge of the bit causing a laceration to the right forearm. The bit weighs approximately 50 pounds is 12 inches in length and 18-24 inches in width. | |||||
| 2015-11-21 | Youngstown | Ohio | XPO Logistics | Leg(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was manually splitting two trolleys apart, lost his footing and fell. One of the trolley's fell on his leg, breaking it. | |||||
| 2015-08-19 | Amarillo | Texas | Tyson Foods, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was using a winch to rehang beef that had fallen off the hook when his finger got caught between the trolley and the rail, amputating the fingertip. | |||||