Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-11-02 | Akron | Oh | Grapevine Masonry Construction, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by other person |
The injured employee was assisting another employee who was using a hand-held hammer drill. The drill bit caught the injured employee's glove and twisted his index finger causing a fingertip amputation. | |||||
2021-09-17 | Akron | Oh | The Ruhlin Company | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was helping to move a concrete form. The employee climbed on top of the 7-to 8-foot tall form to readjust the lifting device. The employee connected a positioning hook onto the form. The form tipped over and the employee jumped off, but they were still connected to the form. The form struck and broke the employee's lower right leg. | |||||
2021-07-19 | Akron | Ny | Whiting Door Manufacturing | Hip(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee was trying to manually untangle wire from a rack when the coil of wire became unsteady and fell toward employee. The employee fell to the concrete floor and the coil fell on their lower body. The employee sustained a fractured hip. | |||||
2021-07-16 | Akron | Oh | AT&T | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was working from a ladder when it slid out from under him. He fell to the ground and suffered broken teeth and a fractures to the jaw, forearm, and thumb. | |||||
2021-07-15 | Akron | Oh | AT&T | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was removing his tools from the basket of his bucket truck. When he turned to step down, he fell to the pavement and landed on his hip, resulting in a broken hip that required hospitalization. | |||||
2021-07-14 | Akron | Oh | KLE Construction Company | Multiple body parts | Ignition of clothing from controlled heat source |
An employee was using a cut-off saw to cut rebar when sparks from the saw caught the employee's clothes on fire. The employee sustained burns to the left side of his body. | |||||
2021-06-29 | Akron | Oh | Amazon DCL2 | Brain | Struck by falling object or equipment |
An employee bent down to pick up packages on the floor. While doing so, a package fell out of a bag above the employee and struck her on the back of her head and neck. | |||||
2021-05-11 | Akron | Oh | Akron Foundry Company | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
An employee was finishing the prep work on a mold in a low-pressure tilt machine. The machine started up and cycled, causing amputation and crushing injuries to the employee's fingers and hand. | |||||
2021-02-25 | Akron | Oh | Akron Foundry Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was performing maintenance on a pneumatic lathe when he sustained an amputation to the ends of three fingers. | |||||
2021-02-04 | Akron | Oh | Dicks Sporting Goods | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was taking the trash out when they slipped and fell on ice, resulting in a right ankle fracture. | |||||
2020-08-05 | Akron | Oh | Bath Manor Special Care Centre | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was using a router to complete the assembly of a picnic table for staff use when his finger got caught in the blade, resulting in amputation of a left-hand fingertip. | |||||
2020-07-30 | Akron | Ohio | United Salvage Company Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Indirect exposure to electricity |
An employee was running an excavator with a grapple magnet. The magnet swung back and hit the cab and power box, and the employee was shocked. | |||||
2020-05-22 | Akron | Ohio | Landmark Plastic Corporation | Brain | Struck against stationary object or equipment while rising |
An employee was working on a former. The employee stood up into a rail, fell, and suffered a concussion. | |||||
2020-03-16 | Akron | Ohio | BEMIS COMPANY, INC. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was operating a press when her fingers were caught in the rollers. Her left index and middle fingertips were amputated. | |||||
2020-02-20 | Akron | Ohio | Bridgestone Americas, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was loading material into a cure press using a mobile ladder. While descending the ladder at a height of 3 feet, the employee tripped and fell into a nearby forklift, suffering broken bones. | |||||
2020-02-11 | Akron | Ohio | The Fishel Company | Hand(s) | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
An aerial crew was lashing a span of fiber telecommunications line when the fiber rose under tension and contacted the overhead primary electrical line. An employee working out of the bucket sustained burns to both hands and was hospitalized. | |||||
2020-02-08 | Akron | Ohio | Health Care Services Group | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping |
An employee was working the tray line and turned to reach for an item when she tripped and fell sustaining a broken hip. | |||||
2020-01-22 | Akron | Ohio | US Census Bureau | Knee(s) | Fall while sitting |
An employee fell out of a chair and landed on his knees. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-09-17 | Akron | Ohio | Goodwill Industries of Akron | Nonclassifiable | Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving |
An employee was hospitalized after a fight in a parking lot. | |||||
2019-08-27 | Akron | Ohio | Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company | Brain | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was working at a policyholder's residence responding to their insurance claim. He was on their outside deck and began to climb up a ladder. He was on the 2nd rung from the ground when the ladder lifted back towards him, hitting his forehead area. He continued to fall backwards, hitting the back of his head on the deck and knocking him unconscious. | |||||
2019-08-21 | Akron | Ohio | GOJO INDUSTRIES INC. | Multiple body parts | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee was passing through the atrium area of the facility to another area where she tripped over a floor mat and fell to the floor. She experienced a concussion, wrist fracture, and vertebral compression. | |||||
2019-08-14 | Akron | Ohio | JO-ANN STORES, LLC | Thigh(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was climbing down a ladder after putting material away on shelves. She fell to the ground, hitting her hand and head and twisting her ankle and leg. She was hospitalized with a broken femur. | |||||
2019-08-12 | Akron | Ohio | Nathan Contracting, L.P. | Nonclassifiable | Fall through surface or existing opening |
An employee was removing paint in a stairwell where the floor had been removed and fell through a hole in the floor, suffering broken bones. | |||||
2019-07-08 | Akron | Ohio | U.S. POSTAL SERVICE | Foot (feet) and ankle(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee was kneeling down to retrieve parcels from a pallet. The employee's knee gave out and the employee fell to the ground, suffering a broken foot/ankle. | |||||
2019-07-07 | Akron | Ohio | LANDMARK PLASTIC CORP. | Hand(s) and arm(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was operating a plastic extrusion line. The employee was using a hand tool to scrape excess plastic from the end of the line when a pocket of hot gas and plastic erupted and burned the employee's hands and forearm. | |||||
2019-06-06 | Akron | Ohio | JW Didado Electric | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was pulling utility poles with metal chains. The chain got stuck and as the employee was freeing the snag with his hand, the chain snapped back and struck the employee's left thumb causing a partial amputation. | |||||
2019-06-03 | Akron | New York | Whiting Door Manufacturing Corp. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was feeding steel into the die of a press. The tip of the employee's left pointer finger was amputated. | |||||
2019-05-08 | Akron | Ohio | Caliber Mold and Machine | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
An employee was blowing chips off his machine when the machine was turned on and started to spin. The employee was repeatedly struck by the table chucks and suffered six broken ribs. | |||||
2019-03-19 | Akron | Ohio | AKRON ENERGY SYSTEMS, LLC | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was on an A-frame step ladder, rebuilding an inverted bucket trap. After loosening the six bolts holding the trap door in place, the employee was hit by hot condensate steam and suffered burns to the neck, upper arms, and chest area. | |||||
2019-03-19 | Akron | Ohio | METALICO AKRON, INC. | Nonclassifiable | Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire |
An employee was cutting an aluminum oxygen cylinder when it exploded. The employee suffered broken fingers and burns. | |||||
2019-02-22 | Akron | Ohio | Ohio Pure Foods, Inc. | Foot (feet) | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
An employee was operating a stand up forklift and attempted to go through an elevated door way. The top mast of the forklift struck the brick wall of the doorway causing the forklift to tip over and land on the employee's foot. The employee was hospitalized for a foot injury requiring surgery. | |||||
2019-02-04 | Akron | Ohio | Splash Car Wash | Multiple head locations | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was repairing the overhead dry and shine automatic towel dryer of the car wash when it fell onto the employee. The employee sustained severe head and facial fractures and lacerations including a broken jaw and teeth. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-01-29 | Akron | Ohio | Lowe's Home Improvement | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was hospitalized for a broken ankle after slipping and falling on snow and ice in the parking lot. | |||||
2019-01-18 | Akron | Ohio | Frito Lay | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level |
On January 18, 2019, an employee tripped/slipped while walking through a parking lot. The employee fell to the ground, suffering a broken right ankle, and was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-01-10 | Akron | Ohio | Advanced Resources, LLC | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
On 1/10/2019, an employee fell from a portable staircase while picking orders and suffered bleeding on the brain, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2018-09-19 | Akron | Ohio | RJS Corporation | Elbow(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was using a lathe to machine a steel bar. The bar struck him, breaking his elbow. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2018-08-17 | Akron | Ohio | EMCOR Facilities Services | Knee(s) | Overexertion in holding, carrying, or wielding-single episode |
Two employees were moving a one-man lift into a traveling position. The employees leaned the lift backwards 45 degrees in order to move it. The injured employee thought it was going to fall on him and he lifted his right leg to kick the lever down and his leg buckled causing the lift to fall on him. His left leg buckled resulting in a dislocated patella and torn ACL. | |||||
2018-07-24 | Akron | Ohio | ACME FRESH MARKET#2 | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee slipped and fell on a wet floor fracturing her right ankle. She was hospitalized. | |||||
2018-07-23 | Akron | Ohio | Akron Polymer AProduct | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was adjusting a tube-bending machine when the machine cycled, causing a partial amputation to the tip of the employee's right ring finger. The machinery was not locked out at the time of the incident, and blocks designed for it were not being used. | |||||
2018-05-18 | Akron | Ohio | Pioneer Tool & Die Co. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
On 5/18/2018, a temporary employee was operating a punch press when it amputated the employee's finger(s). | |||||
2018-04-21 | Akron | Ohio | Caliber Mold and Machine | Eye(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
An employee was cleaning a part with an air hose when part of the air hose broke off and struck him in the face, fracturing his right eye socket. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2018-04-16 | Akron | Ohio | The Smithers Group | Leg(s) | Walking, without other incident-single episode |
An employee was walking across the parking lot when his left leg snapped/broke, causing him to fall to the ground. | |||||
2018-03-20 | Akron | Ohio | Cleveland Clinic Akron General | Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee was demonstrating an exercise to a patient during a physical therapy session when the employee fell onto the carpeted floor, suffering a neck fracture that required surgery. | |||||
2018-02-08 | Akron | Ohio | The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was prying rubber from a four-roll calender machine when his prying tool and glove were caught in the calender, pulling his hand inside. His right middle finger was amputated before he could get his hand loose. The machine was operating at the time of the incident. | |||||
2018-01-17 | Akron | Ohio | Giant Eagle Supermarket | Foot(feet) and leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
On January 17, 2018, an employee exited the front of the store and was walking on the outside designated walkway toward the parking lot when a pickup truck ran over and fractured her feet, knees, and legs. | |||||
2017-10-09 | Akron | Ohio | COUNTRY PURE FOODS, INC. | Foot (feet) | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
An employee was troubleshooting the cleaning process on a malfunctioning tank. When he attempted to correct the flow of chemicals, the chemicals sprayed him and ran down his apron, contacting and burning his foot. Foot protection was not worn at the time. | |||||
2017-09-18 | Akron | New York | Chittenden & Dylag LLC | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet |
On 9/18/2017, an employee was installing a residential roof and tearing off layers of the roof's pitch. While throwing a bundle of shingles to the ground, the employee fell about 17 feet to the ground, injuring the wrist and lower back. Fall protection was not used at the time of the incident. | |||||
2017-07-11 | Akron | Ohio | YMCA | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee slipped and fell while cleaning a swimming pool area. He tore a right hip ligament/muscle and was hospitalized. | |||||
2017-06-27 | Akron | Ohio | Goodman Networks Incorporated | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was installing a satellite dish on a residential home. He was working from a ladder when he fell approximately 10 feet, breaking his left leg and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2017-06-09 | Akron | Ohio | Cleveland Clinic Akron General | Multiple body parts | Fall on same level due to tripping over self |
An employee tripped and fell into a refrigerator, breaking her nose and leg. | |||||
2017-05-09 | Akron | New York | Adesa NY LLC | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was attempting to get into the driver's seat of a pickup truck that had a suspension lift kit installed on it. This kit raised the normal height of the doors above street level. The employee was holding onto the steering wheel to hoist himself up into the drivers' seat when he lost his grip on the steering wheel, fell backwards to the pavement, and landed on his back. He was hospitalized with a back injury and had surgery. | |||||
2017-05-04 | Akron | Ohio | NABHOLZ CONSTRUCTION | Foot (feet) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
On 5/4/17, an employee was installing production equipment (conveyor) when the equipment fell 6 inches onto his left foot, breaking and lacerating it. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2017-04-28 | Akron | New York | TruGreen | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was operating a spreader/sprayer machine to apply fertilizers and herbicides to turf. He was attempting to repair/replace a belt in the machine when his right hand was caught and pulled into its pulley system, amputating his index fingertip. The machine was not locked/tagged out at the time. | |||||
2017-04-24 | Akron | Ohio | Terrace Construction Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
While attempting to align fiber cement boxes weighing 300-400 lbs. on a forklift, the boxes shifted, catching the employee's left hand between the edges of the top and bottom boxes. The employee's left middle finger was amputated at the first knuckle joint and the left ring finger was crushed. | |||||
2016-10-04 | Akron | Ohio | WMK, LLC | Brain | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was sitting in her chair at her work desk and rolled backwards to talk to a fellow co-worker when her chair tipped over, causing her to fall to the ground and strike her head. She hospitalized with a concussion. | |||||
2016-09-10 | Akron | Ohio | The Fred W Albecht Grocery Company | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was using a band saw to cut pork loins when his right middle finger entered the blade, amputating the fingertip. | |||||
2016-08-17 | Akron | Ohio | Covro Inc. | Multiple trunk locations | Other fall to lower level |
An employee on a ladder was running cable through the drop ceiling when she began to spin around the ladder, became unstable, and fell. She fell to the ground and suffered multiple contusions, two broken ribs, and a chipped bone in the back. | |||||
2016-08-13 | Akron | Ohio | AT&T | Hand(s) and arm(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee fell while ascending a ladder to replace a service drop, breaking the right arm and left hand. | |||||
2016-08-12 | Akron | Ohio | Crown Lift Products | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level |
An employee fell off the shipping dock and broke several ribs. | |||||
2016-08-09 | Akron | Ohio | Goodman Networks - Field Services Inc. | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was climbing a ladder to cut tree limbs that were blocking the customer's view of the satellite dish. The employee fell off the ladder and struck a galvanized pole. The employee was hospitalized with kidney and abdominal trauma. | |||||
2016-07-26 | Akron | Ohio | Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
While setting up a curing work area, an employee was exposed to extreme heat from the curing operation and steam, requiring hospitalization for heat exhaustion. | |||||
2016-06-17 | Akron | Ohio | PROGRESSIVE STAMPING | Fingertip(s) | Struck against object or equipment while moving it |
An employee was loading steel coil into a cradle when the coil severely lacerated his left middle finger. His left middle fingertip was surgically amputated. | |||||
2016-05-12 | Akron | Ohio | Summit Tool Co. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
An employee was showing a coworker how to operate a forging press and was pointing toward the machine's operations. To get a better view, the coworker leaned forward and accidentally made contact with the foot pedal, actuating the press. The employee's right index finger was amputated by the machine. | |||||
2016-05-11 | Akron | New York | NOCO Energy Corp. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was unloading propane tanks from a delivery truck. As the employee dismounted the truck's lift gate, his ring finger was caught and de-gloved in the channel of the lift gate. | |||||
2016-04-15 | Akron | Ohio | AKRON PORCELAIN & PLASTIC CO. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
While an employee was wiping debris from a plastic compression mold press, the vertical injector plate came down and partially amputated the employee's left middle and index fingertips. | |||||
2016-04-11 | Akron | Ohio | Installed Building Products | Hand(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was working from a portable ladder when the employee slipped and fell. The employee's hand became caught on the metal garage door and was lacerated. | |||||
2016-03-24 | Akron | Ohio | Landmark Plastic Corp | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
On or about 3/24/2016, an employee's finger was amputated while feeding a thermal former machine. | |||||
2016-03-01 | Akron | New York | Whiting Door Manufacturing Corp. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was running the profile in a door panel shaper machine. When he attempted to clean out the sawdust, his left-hand pinky finger contacted and was amputated by the cutter on the machine. | |||||
2016-02-16 | Akron | Ohio | SUMMA HEALTH SYSTEMS | Head, neck, and trunk | Stabbing, cutting, slashing, piercing |
An employee was struck several times by a patient with a knife. The employee suffered puncture/laceration wounds to the neck, face and abdomen. | |||||
2016-02-15 | Akron | Ohio | AVI Food Systems Inc. | Pelvis | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
On February 15, 2016, an employee was pushing a cart and tripped over pallet wrapping resulting in a fall to the floor and a fractured pelvis. | |||||
2016-02-01 | Akron | Ohio | Ohio Pizza Delievery | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Shooting by other person-intentional |
An employee was delivering a pizza to a private home. After he delivered the pizza and collected the cash, he walked back to his vehicle. Prior to entering his vehicle, the employee was shot in the bladder and was hospitalized. | |||||
2015-11-23 | Akron | New York | Whiting Door Manufacturing Corp. | Fingertip(s) | Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate |
An employee was painting a door and pinched a finger in the door hinge amputating the fingertip. | |||||
2015-10-22 | Akron | Ohio | Belenky Inc. | Arm(s) | Direct exposure to electricity |
A worker was at a customer's facility repairing a commercial washing machine that was not properly de-energized. The worker came into contact with a live transformer and burned his right arm, resulting in hospitalization. | |||||
2015-08-30 | Akron | Ohio | NELSON TREE SERVICE, INC. | Multiple body parts | Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
During a power outage, an employee was helping to clear a line of tree branches at an electrical substation using a pole pruner. A branch fell after it was cut, striking a live line and the employee. The employee got shocked and was burned on his hands and torso. | |||||
2015-08-21 | Akron | Ohio | Ohio Edison Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was stringing new power line using pools of wire that are carried on a reel mounted on a trailer. His finger got pinched in the reel, and his left ring finder was crushed and amputated. | |||||
2015-07-29 | Akron | Ohio | City Scrap & Salvage | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was hospitalized for heat stress after leaving work early. | |||||
2015-07-19 | Akron | Ohio | Landmark Plastics Corporation | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee in the thermal forming department was troubleshooting a trim press when the employee sustained a left hand amputation. The equipment was not locked out and the guards were bypassed at the time of the incident. | |||||
2015-07-06 | Akron | Ohio | Akron Porcelain & Plastics Co. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
While attempting to remove a part from the mold of a ceramic press, an employee sustained an amputation of the left middle and ring fingers. | |||||
2015-06-05 | Akron | Ohio | Ohio Gasket & Shim Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
On June 5, 2015, an employee using a press reached for a part; the press came down on his left hand, amputating three fingers above the knuckles. | |||||
2015-05-27 | Akron | Ohio | Grimco Inc. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee received an amputation of the right hand while operating a mechanical power press. | |||||
2015-02-19 | Akron | Ohio | THE R.C.A. RUBBER COMPANY | Nonclassifiable | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee received a crushing injury while servicing a chain and sprocket drive system. | |||||
2015-02-16 | Akron | Ohio | TIME WARNER CABLE | Arm(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee was walking in the hallway when she tripped on a mat. She fell to the floor, hitting her arm on the wall on the way down. She fractured her right arm. |