Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-06-14 | Black Hawk | Co | Jacobs Entertainment Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was restocking a soda vending machine when her finger was pinched in the door resulting in a 1/4 inch amputation of the right middle finger. | |||||
2020-10-12 | Houston | Tx | Canteen Vending Services | Multiple trunk locations | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
While delivering vending machine products to a worksite, an employee's foot got caught in a dolly-cart that was leaning up against the inside of the box-truck. While attempting to get his foot unstuck the employee lost balance and fell, striking his ribs and spleen on the back opening-lip of the box-truck. He sustained three fractured ribs and a bruised spleen. | |||||
2019-08-27 | Oakland | Florida | Bottling Group, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
While restocking a vending machine at a customer site, an employee began to fell unwell and suffered cramping. The employee was hospitalized for dehydration. | |||||
2019-04-24 | Chicago | Illinois | Pepsi Beverages Company | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was trying to move a vending machine when his right little finger became lodged between a cooler and the frame of a truck. The fingertip was amputated. | |||||
2018-08-13 | Canton | Massachusett | Jubilant Draximage Radio Pharmacies Inc. | Hip(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker |
An employee was moving a vending machine when it tipped over on him. He injured his hip and was hospitalized. | |||||
2018-07-04 | Tulsa | Oklahoma | Direct Energy | Arm(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was walking to the kitchen area when she slipped and fell, striking and bruising her head on a vending machine and then falling on her left arm and breaking it in multiple places. | |||||
2017-08-11 | New York | New York | Isabella Geriatric Center | Fingertip(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
Employees were moving a soda vending machine with a pallet jack. The vending machine became unstable. An employee attempted to stabilize the vending machine at the bottom. The vending machine slid off the pallet jack, crushing the employee's left second digit and amputating the fingertip. | |||||
2017-08-09 | Nampa | Idaho | Pepsico, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was using a dolly to unload a vending machine from a truck to the loading dock when the dolly wheels became lodged, tipping the vending machine over and onto the employee. He broke his right shin. | |||||
2015-11-10 | Taunton | Massachusett | Pepsi Beverage Company | BODY SYSTEMS | Overexertion in pushing, pulling, or turning-single episode |
An employee had a heart attack while moving a vending machine. |