Overexertion in pushing, pulling, or turning-single episode · Hernias due to traumatic incidents
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Cincinnati Incorporated, 11202 38th Street South, HORACE, NORTH DAKOTA 58047
on — Hernias due to traumatic incidents, affecting the abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders.
Final narrative
An employee was prepping the pallet gate door for removal. While pulling the center drive piston from the door, the employee sustained an inguinal hernia.
HospitalizedAbdomen, except internal location of diseases or disordersMachine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
An employee was remotely operating a 25-ton gantry crane with a magnet attachment to unload a steel plate (approximately 96'' x 280'') from a semi-truck to the ground in the steel yard. The plate struck the employee as it was being moved, resulting in three fractures to his right arm that required hospitalization and surgery.
An employee was replacing springs in a counter balance unit on a shear machine when something shifted in the machine and his left hand was caught in the machine, resulting in amputation of the left ring fingertip.
An employee was pushing tables together to seat a party of 20 when he felt a sharp pain and experienced difficulty breathing. The employee was hospitalized for a collapsed lung.
An employee was standing on some large wooden storage crates, adjusting a tarp to cover them. He fell from the crates to the parking lot ground, landed on his left side, and suffered several broken ribs. He was hospitalized.
An employee was remotely operating a 25-ton gantry crane with a magnet attachment to unload a steel plate (approximately 96'' x 280'') from a semi-truck to the ground in the steel yard. The plate struck the employee as it was being moved, resulting in three fractures to his right arm that required hospitalization and surgery.
An employee was polishing a guide pin using a CNC lathe when his left glove got caught on the chuck or tool and three of his fingers were pulled in. The employee was hospitalized and underwent reattachment surgery for finger amputations.
On May 2, 2025, two employees were lifting a pallet jack with a built-in weight measuring plate into the bed of a truck when the plate shifted as they were lifting it. The plate crushed and severed the injured employee's middle and ring fingertips. A fingertip was amputated.
An employee was cleaning a camera lens on a wheel dresser, a machine used to correct the shapes of grinding wheels. The employee's right index finger was caught between the wheel dresser and the grinding wheel being serviced. The fingertip was amputated at the first joint.
An employee was on the ground working to close a trailer door. The door was caught by the wind and blew the employee backward. He landed on his back and sustained four fractured ribs, requiring hospitalization.
An employee was walking on top of boiler to close a valve. The employee fell off the boiler and landed on the floor, sustaining fractured ribs. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was exiting a loader and coming down the ladder. His hand slipped off the railing and he fell backward onto sandy ground, landing on his side. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured pelvis and a rotator cuff tear.