Salt Lake City is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. The population was 203,927 at the latest census. It is the county seat of Salt Lake County and the most populous city in Utah. In Salt Lake City, Utah, machinery accidents are not common. In fact, there were only 9 accidents in the city between 2015 and 2021.
Manufacturing Companies
Salt Lake City is a major center for manufacturing, with over one-third of Utah’s manufacturing employment located within the city limits. Major manufacturers include
| Reh Company Sinclair Oil LLC Longyear Holdings, Inc. Dyno Nobel Inc. Dyno Nobel Holdings USA Inc Usana Health Sciences, Inc. Nutraceutical International Corporation |
Varex Imaging Corporation Traeger, Inc. Myriad Genetics, Inc. Huntsman-Cooper, L.L.C. Thatcher Group, Inc Young Electric Sign Company Inc Biofire Diagnostics, LLC |
Salt Lake City is also home to Eccles Institute of Engineering and Technology (formerly known as Brigham Young University Engineering School), which has been ranked among the top 20 engineering schools in the United States.
Machinery Accidents
Machinery accidents can happen in any city, and Salt Lake is no exception. In Salt Lake City, there have been a number of machinery accidents that have resulted in injuries or death. All of these accidents illustrate the importance of using safe machinery in order to prevent injuries or death. If you are involved in any kind of machinery accident, contact an attorney right away to make sure you have all of your legal rights protected.
The Following Accidents have been recorded in Salt Lake City, however, many machinery accidents go unreported:
| AccidentDate | Employer | City | State | Description | Injury | Body Part | Event | Injury Source | Other Injury Source |
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| 27/10/2021 | Allied Waste Services of North America, LLC | Salt Rock | Wv | On October 27, 2021, an employee was walking behind a trash truck to direct it while it was backing up. The employee slipped and fell and the rear passenger-side tire came into contact with the front of his upper left thigh. | Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury | Thigh(s) | Pedestrian vehicular incident | Garbage, recycling, or refuse truck | |
| 29/09/2021 | U.S. Dept. of Justice-Bureau of Prisons | Salters | Sc | An employee was operating a grommet machine when it amputated the tip of his right thumb. | Amputations | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation | Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery | |
| 14/09/2020 | United States Postal Service | Salt Lake City | Ut | An employee was delivering mail when a low hanging branch struck his left eye. The eye injury required surgery. | Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds | Eye(s) | Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c. | Trees | |
| 07/02/2020 | U.S. Dept. of Justice-Bureau of Prisons | Salters | South Caroli | An employee was placing a 4-inch by 8-inch piece of sheet metal in a punch press. When the press was activated, the metal shifted and pinched his glove and the tip of his right index finger against the fiberglass guard on the machine. He suffered an amputation to the finger. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation | Punch presses | |
| 29/01/2020 | Harvey Bloch Ortiz Bailer | Salt Point | New York | An employee was removing nitrogen from a system when a tool malfunctioned and a Schrader pin hit the employee's hand and nitrogen gas got under the skin on the employee's left arm and hand. | Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds | Hand(s) and arm(s) | Exposure through unintentional needlestick or sharp injury | Nitrogen | |
| 12/07/2019 | Habitat for Humanity of the Roaring Fork Valley, Inc. | Basalt | Colorado | An employee standing on a step ladder was struck in the chest by a truss jib and fell 12 feet onto a boulder retaining wall. The employee was hospitalized with multiple fractures to the right arm, broken ribs, a partially collapsed lung, and lacerations to the head. | Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet | Step ladders | Boulders |
| 21/05/2019 | Defense Contract Management Agency | Salt Lake City | Utah | An employee was leaving the facility when the employee slipped and fell on a wet floor, injuring the left knee. | Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury | Knee(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping | Floor | Liquids |
| 24/04/2019 | Hill Air Force Base | Salt Lake City | Utah | An employee was walking to a conference and crossing the street when the employee tripped on a curb and fell to the concrete, breaking the left arm. The employee was hospitalized. | Fractures | Arm(s) | Fall on same level while climbing stairs, steps, or curbs | Curbs | |
| 07/09/2018 | SUMMIT TRANSPORT & ENVIRONMENTAL, INC. | Saltwell | West Virgini | An employee was pulling a piece of drill stem when the drill stem dropped. The employee's finger was caught between the drill stem and a metal grate, resulting in an amputation of the distal left ring finger. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker | Machine and appliance parts | |
| 12/06/2018 | U.S. DEPT OF JUSTICE | Salters | South Caroli | An inmate was slicing a turkey loaf in an electric meat slicer. When the turkey loaf was trimmed down to a small piece, the employee tried to reposition the meat in the running slicer and suffered the amputation of soft tissue and part of the nail on the end of the right thumb. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment | Food slicers | |
| 19/02/2018 | Industrial Timber, LLC | Saltillo | Mississippi | An employee was removing a small piece of wood that was stuck between the table saw guard and fence. While reaching for the wood, the employee pressed the foot pedal resulting in amputation of the right thumb, index and middle fingers. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation | Table saws | |
| 22/08/2017 | U.S. Postal Service | Salt Lake City | Utah | An employee climbed up four stairs to a landing, handed a survey to an employee, turned around to go back down, lost his footing, and fell down the four stairs, breaking his right ankle and requiring surgery. | Fractures | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet | Stairs, steps-indoors | |
| 23/06/2017 | U.S. DEPT OF JUSTICE | Salters | South Caroli | An employee was trying to lift a dock plate when a truck backed into the dock plate gate, pinching his left ring finger in a gate hinge and amputating his fingertip. | Amputations | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment | Ramps, loading docks, dock plates | Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility |
| 29/05/2017 | VA Salt Lake City Healthcare System | Salt Lake City | Utah | An employee was unloading a truck to deliver laundry to a hospital. The tommy gate on the truck he was unloading was approximately 2 inches above the dock. He tripped over the edge of the gate and hit his head against a linen cart. | Intracranial injuries | Brain | Fall on same level due to tripping on uneven surface | Ramps, loading docks, dock plates | Delivery truck or van |
| 14/02/2017 | Tri State Coating and Machine Company, Inc. | Salt Rock | West Virgini | An employee was loading a part onto a machine when his hand was caught between a boat sleeve and a cone. His hand suffered possible broken bones and a severe burn. | Burns and corrosions | Hand(s) | Exposure to harmful substances or environments | Painting, priming, metal coating machinery | |
| 08/08/2016 | U.S. POSTAL SERVICE | Salt Lake City | Utah | An employee felt dizzy and lightheaded while delivering mail. The employee was hospitalized due to heat stress and kidney failure. | Effects of heat and light | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat | Heat-environmental | |
| 18/02/2016 | Halverson Company | Salt Lake City | Utah | An employee went into the silo to make adjustments on the grain sweep. A coworker did not know that the employee was in the silo and turned on the grain sweep, which lacerated the employee's leg. | Cuts, lacerations | Leg(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation | Feed grinders, crushers, mixers-agricultural | |
| 23/11/2015 | US Postal Service | Salt Lake City | Utah | A maintenance employee was investigating a suspected defective roller on a conveyor belt. The machine must be running to hear defective rollers. His hand was pulled into the machine, and the rollers rolled up onto his forearm. He suffered compound fractures to his radius and ulna and required surgery. | Fractures | Forearm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning | Conveyors-belt | |
| 25/08/2015 | U.S. POSTAL SERVICE | Salt Lake City | Utah | On August 25, 2015 an employee was admitted to the hospital due to heat stroke. | Heat stroke | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat | Heat-environmental | |
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