Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-09-24 | Bangor | Pa | Martins Creek SES-Talen Energy Corp. | Lumbar region | Overexertion involving outside sources |
An employee was completing housekeeping tasks and moving electrical motors when they began to develop lower back pain. | |||||
2021-03-26 | Bangor | Pa | GIBRALTAR CHIMNEY INTERNATIONAL | Multiple body parts | Fall or jump curtailed by personal fall arrest system |
An employee was performing chimney repairs inside of a chimney. One of the securing lines was severed by the oscillation of the outer concrete covering due to high winds. The employee fell a short distance before being secured by secondary safety lines. This action caused the employee to slam into either the wall or part of the safety cage. The employee sustained a broken rib and a possibly broken shoulder blade. | |||||
2021-01-13 | Bangor | Me | Brookings-Smith | Ankle(s) | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment 6 to 10 feet |
Two employees were riding a lift from a basement to the first floor of a home. A chain link broke and the lift fell about 6 feet back into the basement. One employee suffered a broken ankle. | |||||
2020-09-17 | Bangor | Me | Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee slipped on a wet floor and fractured her hip. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2020-07-02 | Bangor | Maine | Dead River Company | Brain | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee tripped on his cane and hit his head on a cabinet. | |||||
2020-04-18 | Bangor | Maine | St. Joseph Healthcare | Hip(s) | Fall on same level |
An employee fell and fractured her hip, requiring surgery and hospitalization. | |||||
2019-04-25 | Bangor | Maine | Charter Communications, Inc | Wrist(s) | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
An employee was checking the line and fell 15 feet from a ladder onto pavement. The employee sustained a fractured the left wrist and lacerations. | |||||
2019-04-15 | Bangor | Pennsylvania | Apache Industrial Services, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet |
An employee of Apache Scaffold was disassembling a scaffold when he fell 20-40 feet inside a confined space boiler, suffering multiple injuries. | |||||
2019-01-08 | Bangor | Maine | Eastern Area Agency on Aging | Brain | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was in a parking lot, walking into work. The employee slipped and fell on the snow/ice, suffering a head injury. | |||||
2018-07-24 | Bangor | Maine | Meridian Mobile Health | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Exposure to traumatic or stressful event, n.e.c. |
An employee was hospitalized with chest pain due to work-related stress. | |||||
2018-06-25 | Bangor | Maine | Consigli Construction Company, Inc. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee fell from a 47-inch-high baker scaffold to the floor, suffering broken ribs. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2018-05-21 | Bangor | Maine | Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems | Brain | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee suffered syncope twice while walking to a private residence, falling to the ground and suffering a head injury that required hospitalization. | |||||
2017-07-12 | Bangor | Maine | Community Health and Counseling Services | Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) | Fall on same level due to tripping |
An employee tripped on a landing and fell, fracturing her clavicle and dislocating her shoulder. | |||||
2017-01-13 | Bangor | Maine | Freight Liners of Maine | Leg(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee slipped on ice in the parking lot, fell, and broke his right leg. | |||||
2016-06-22 | Bangor | Pennsylvania | Hamon Custodis | Hand(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was placing an empty bucket through an opening when the employee's hand was pinned between a concrete ledge and the bucket. The employee suffered a hand fracture and required surgery. | |||||
2016-03-22 | Bangor | Maine | BSP Trans, Inc. | Ankle(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
A load of steel in a 3x16 foot crate shifted while it was being strapped/secured to a truck, landing on and breaking an employee's ankle. | |||||
2015-09-29 | Bangor | Maine | Eastern Maine Medical Center | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was admitted to the hospital due to dehydration. | |||||
2015-08-20 | Bangor | Maine | St. Joseph Healthcare | Lung(s), pleura | Exposure to other harmful substances |
An employee was exposed to bacteria, became ill, and was hospitalized. | |||||
2015-08-05 | Bangor | Maine | Eastern Maine Medical Center- Neurology Specialists | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure through medical injection |
On 8/5/15, at 7:30 a.m., a new employee received an employer-required vaccination for measles/mumps/rubella. Approximately 30 to 45 minutes after the injection, she experienced an allergic reaction; her neck swelled. She was hospitalized and treated. | |||||
2015-04-06 | Bangor | Wisconsin | Stella-Jones Corporation | Leg(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee was unstrapping packs from an A-frame railcar when a pack of five railroad ties fell from the railcar and struck the employee's leg. |