| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-02 | Lakeland | Fl | Finzer Roller, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was using a CNC lathe to finish-grind a small urethane roll. His right hand contacted the rotating grinding wheel and was pulled in. He suffered amputations to the ring fingertip (at the first knuckle) and the middle finger (at the second knuckle). | |||||
| 2021-02-19 | Richland Hills | Tx | Advanced Foam Recycling | Upper and lower limb(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was walking in an aisle past bales of stacked polyurethane foam. The stack fell over and the top bale (weighing about 1,200-1,500 pounds) landed on the employee, pinning her under it. She suffered multiple ankle, leg, and arm fractures and possible face injuries. | |||||
| 2019-09-09 | Winter Park | Florida | GENICON, INC. | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| An employee was using a laser cutter to cut polyurethane when she felt sick and had difficulty breathing. She was hospitalized with carbon monoxide poisoning. | |||||
| 2019-05-03 | Paterson | New Jersey | Kohler Industries Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee had been manually loading a wooden shoe holding device with a die-cut urethane foam piece. As the employee moved the shoe into the cutting machine along a fixed pathway, one of the saw blades came in contact with the shoe, causing the 4" blade to break into many small pieces. One or more of these pieces struck the employee’s fingers. The right-hand pinky and ring fingers sustained cuts that required stitches. The ring finger also required surgery for a cut ligament and blood vessel. | |||||
| 2019-04-12 | Cranberry Township | Pennsylvania | CUE, Inc. | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Overexertion in lifting-single episode |
| While using pliers to lift a urethane anvil cover, an employee suffered a slipped disc. | |||||
| 2019-04-04 | Dayton | Ohio | Dayton Molded Urethanes, LLC | Wrist(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was operating a polyurethane machine. When the employee was detaching the water line, the teeth of the polyurethane machine caused a laceration to the left wrist requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2019-02-28 | Seguin | Texas | Berridge Manufacturing Company | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was running a sheet metal panel forming machine. The employee's right glove was pulled into the urethane feed-in rollers and crushed. | |||||
| 2018-01-02 | Canton | Ohio | SRT LLC | Head | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was spray painting polyurethane onto a tank from an extension ladder. The ladder slipped on wet paint, causing the employee to fall approximately 5 to 6 feet onto the concrete below. He suffered a head laceration, requiring hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
| 2017-09-27 | Marshfield | Wisconsin | Prepolymer Products Inc | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was manually moving 55-gallon drums full of polyurethane off a pallet when his right little fingertip was pinched and amputated (no bone loss) between two drums. | |||||
| 2017-04-13 | Lake Geneva | Wisconsin | Stellana U.S., Inc. | Thigh(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was scrapping off polyurethane from rollers on a machine using a sharp tool. The employee was scraping towards himself and the tool slipped off the rollers and punctured the employee's right inner thigh. The employee was admitted to the hospital. | |||||
| 2015-10-22 | Hattiesburg | Mississippi | Deep South Foam, LLC | Hand(s), except finger(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| An employee was clearing a spray gun when the 1100 psi pressure injected a component of urethane foam into his finger causing a buildup of material under the skin in the palm of his left hand. | |||||
| 2015-02-04 | Saint Louis | Missouri | L.E. Sauer Machine Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On 2/4/15, worker was operating a Trumf press brake when the punch came down on his fingers while he was setting the press up to operate. Specifically, the worker was placing a polyurethane cover over the die so that the part to be processed would not be damaged. The worker stepped forward on the foot pedal, which activated the press and injured multiple fingers. The worker was hospitalized following surgery to place pins in the injured fingers. | |||||