Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-09-17 | Aberdeen Proving Ground | Md | Jacobs Technology, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was helping to install an M256 tube with a bearing assembly into a recoil mount in preparation for testing. While guiding the tube (which was being held by a crane) into the recoil mount, his gloved hand became caught, resulting in the amputation of two left-hand fingertips. | |||||
2018-07-17 | Aberdeen Proving Ground | Maryland | Aberdeen Proving Ground | Upper extremities | Explosion of nonpressurized vapors, gases, or liquids |
An employee was mixing lithium aluminum hydride with dioxane when a reaction occurred, causing an explosion. He suffered a torn tendon in his upper extremities among other injuries. | |||||
2015-07-08 | Aberdeen Proving Ground | Maryland | Ulliman Schutte Construction | Leg(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
An employee was using a grinder when a piece of the grinding wheel broke off and struck him in the leg, causing a laceration and fracture. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2015-04-24 | Aberdeen Proving Ground | Maryland | U.S. Army, Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center | Elbow(s) | Rubbed or abraded by friction or pressure, n.e.c. |
On April 21, 2015, an employee suffered an abrasion of the right elbow while doing computer animation. |