Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-11-03 | Bedford Hills | Ny | SavATree LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
An employee and co-workers were doing core aerations when one of the machines got stuck in a slightly sloped area of the property. The employee attempted to put a strap on his machine to pull the other machine out. As he searched for a place to hook the strap to, he put his hand under a plate on the machine when his middle and ring fingers contacted a pulley underneath, resulting in 1/8 inch fingertip amputations. | |||||
2017-04-13 | Bedford Hills | New York | Nature's Trees, Inc | Nonclassifiable | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment 16 to 20 feet |
An employee was climbing a tree to prune it when the tree failed about 5 feet below his tie-in point and he fell 20 feet to the ground, suffering a fracture that required hospitalization. |