Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker · Multiple traumatic injuries and disorders, n.e.c.
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at JOHN DEERE & COMPANY, 700 Horizon South Pkwy, MOLINE, ILLINOIS 61265
on — Multiple traumatic injuries and disorders, n.e.c., affecting the jaw, chin.
Final narrative
An employee was installing a seat on a tractor. While she was torqueing the seat base with a 90-degree torque gun, the rear of the tool rotated toward her in reverse. The tool and its battery struck her face, causing a dislocated jaw and torn ligaments requiring surgery.
An employee parked a forklift on a ramp. When the employee got off the forklift to close an overhead door, the forklift started rolling. The employee got on to stop it; it hit a tier rack and the rack fell on the employee, catching his left foot and ankle. The employee developed a muscle injury that required surgery.
On January 16, 2019, at approximately 1:30 p.m., an employee was cleaning a storm drain when the J-hook attachment used to pick up and move the storm drain became disengaged from the grate and the 300-pound iron storm grate dropped on his left foot. He was hospitalized with fractures to his three smallest toes and required surgery.
On May 29, 2018, the injured employee was standing between two automated guided vehicle (AGV) train cars adjusting a crate. Another employee drove alongside the injured employee's AGV in his own AGV. Cargo on the second employee's AGV struck a car on the injured employee's AGV train. This caused the cars to fish tail and the injured employee's left leg was caught between two cars fracturing the fibula.
Employees were using a 100-ton hydraulic press to separate a bearing from a drive shaft. While removing the bearing, the outer bearing race of a ball bearing assembly failed under pressure from the hydraulic press. The part struck the employees.
An employee was using a saw to cut a piece of concrete when the piece gave way and pushed the saw into the employee's leg. The employee's leg was lacerated, requiring stitches and hospitalization.
An employee was grinding some hardfacing on a bulldozer blade when the 9-inch grinder kicked back and lacerated his left leg above the knee. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.
An employee was operating a rotating tool to place thread protectors on the end of pipe. Her left hand was on the rotating part of the tool when the tool engaged, resulting in a left forearm fracture and a thumb laceration.
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An employee was climbing up a fixed ladder alongside a building to inspect a roof leak. The employee fell off the ladder and landed on the ground about 15 feet below. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to both wrists.
On September 16, 2025, an employee went to pull a weld stand when he tripped and fell, landing on the floor on his right hip. The employee suffered hip and fibula fractures that required hospitalization and surgery.
An employee was accessing a tensioned hook that required a hoist mechanism to be engaged. He was unhooking the lift hook from a shelf column when the "up" button was pressed, which released the tension on the pneumatic air hoist. The employee's right index finger was caught between the hook and the column, resulting in a soft tissue amputation and fracture to the fingertip.
A crane was lifting a pole out of a zinc bath in the galvanizing department when the chain attached to the pole broke. The pole fell back into the bath and liquid zinc splashed onto an employee, who suffered third-degree burns to an arm, the abdomen, the torso, the upper left side of the chest, an ear, the neck, and a hand.
An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.
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