Pocahontas, AR

Employers with the most severe injuries in Pocahontas

Example incidents

• Arkansas Electric Cooperatives, Inc POCAHONTAS, ARKANSAS · 2025-03-21 · Struck by other falling object n.e.c.

  On March 21, 2025, an employee was clearing trees and brush from a utility right-of-way. The employee was bucking (cutting) a fallen tree that was approximately 40-inches off the ground when the tree fell onto their left leg. The employee sustained a compound fracture of the left leg requiring hospitalization and surgery.

• Peco Foods, Inc POCAHONTAS, ARKANSAS · 2025-01-05 · Exposure through intact tissue

  An employee was gravity feeding a chemical cleaner from a forklift into a fryer using a hose when the hose came disconnected. The chemical sprayed onto the employee, resulting in chemical burns to their neck, back, and pelvic area.

• Black River Commodities, LLC POCAHONTAS, ARKANSAS · 2024-05-06 · Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing

  An employee was cleaning a grain bin when his left foot was caught by the pull-off auger, resulting in the amputation of the foot.

• Peco Foods, Inc POCAHONTAS, ARKANSAS · 2022-05-17 · Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet

  An employee was on a 90-inch high cantilever ladder inspecting a mobile blood trailer at the facility. The employee and the ladder fell to the concrete ground. The employee sustained a fractured L1 vertebra and was hospitalized.

• Peco Foods, Inc POCAHONTAS, ARKANSAS · 2022-05-13 · Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified

  At approximately 8:30 AM, a maintenance team was troubleshooting a metal detector that was continuously rejecting product. The directional air valve and piping had been disassembled during sanitation and were not re-installed correctly. Maintenance team members disassembled a 3-foot section of piping to visually identify the issue. The injured employee was removing some product from the pipe when the directional air valve actuated. The employee's left little finger was pinched by the valve, amputating the fingertip.

• PECO FOOD'S POULTRY HATCHERY POCAHONTAS, ARKANSAS · 2021-10-14 · Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker

  An employee was holding birds that were being vaccinated when the vaccination gun injected his left middle finger.

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Source: federal OSHA Severe Injury Reports, inspections, and ITA Form 300/301 filings. Counts reflect federal jurisdiction only.