| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-10 | North Berwick | Me | Hussey Seating Company | Hip(s) | Fall on same level |
| An employee was exiting a room when she fell onto the concrete floor and landed on her hip, resulting in a broken hip. | |||||
| 2021-04-22 | Berwick | Pa | Don E. Bower Inc. | Lumbar region | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was tying down a crane boom onto a flatbed trailer. As he was on the flatbed, securing the boom with tiedowns, he lost his grip and fell about 5 feet. He hit a box trailer and then the gravel ground, suffering damaged vertebrae in the lower back. | |||||
| 2021-02-03 | Berwick | Pa | IG Design Group Americas, Inc. | Thigh(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was moving a newly constructed jig horizontally across the floor. The jig broke apart and the employee fell to the concrete floor. The employee sustained a broken right femur. | |||||
| 2020-10-20 | Berwick | Pa | Dollar Tree Distribution, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Ingestion of harmful substance |
| On October 20, 2020, at approximately 7:35PM, an employee was placing boxes of bleach onto a conveyor system. The bottom of a box broke causing bottles of bleach to fall out. One bottle struck the conveyor and broke open splashing bleach into the employee's face. The employee was hospitalized for treatment. | |||||
| 2019-09-09 | Berwick | Pennsylvania | Marc Maset Contracting, LLC | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall through surface or existing opening 21 to 25 feet |
| An employee was walking between tie-off points and fell through a roof opening to the concrete floor 23 feet below. The employee suffered broken ribs, a collapsed lung, a displaced left hip, a shattered left wrist, and a broken pelvis and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-04-07 | Berwick | Pennsylvania | Wise Foods, Inc. | Hip(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was cleaning up the processing floor with water and cleaning solution when he turned and lost his footing, falling to the ground. He was hospitalized with a left hip injury. | |||||
| 2019-03-28 | Berwick | Pennsylvania | Wise Foods, Inc. | Foot (feet) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| Two employees were walking down an aisle in a warehouse. A forklift's rear wheel ran over the left foot of one of the employees, causing crushing injuries. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-07-12 | Berwick | Pennsylvania | Ultra-Poly Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| At about 3:45 p.m. on July 12, 2018, an employee was replacing seals on a plastic extrusion machine. As the employee was installing a pin to connect the screen change plate to the hydraulic cylinder, the cylinder actuated causing the shaft to move outwards and crush his fingers against the extruder. One finger was amputated. | |||||
| 2018-02-16 | Berwick | Pennsylvania | Cheetah Chassis Corporation | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was walking through his department between two trailers to retrieve tools. The employee tripped and fell over a cable that is on a winch to remove trailers from the paint booth. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery for a hip injury. | |||||
| 2017-09-15 | Berwick | Pennsylvania | Wise Foods, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was working on a heat exchanger when the filter for the drain line overflowed with a water/oil mix and exploded on the employee. He sustained burns to his upper body and knee. | |||||
| 2017-05-31 | Berwick | Louisiana | D&M TANK LLC | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was climbing a stationary ladder when he fell and landed on his back. | |||||
| 2017-03-23 | Berwick | Pennsylvania | Wise Foods, Incorporated | Head | Fall on same level |
| On March 23, 2017, at 4:30 AM, an employee was packing snacks at a packing table when the employee fell and struck an adjacent table, suffering head lacerations that required hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-02-15 | North Berwick | Maine | Hussey Seating Company | Hip(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was watching an operator load materials with a forklift. The operator tilted the forks slightly, which caused the material to break its straps and roll off the forks. The employee jumped to get out of the way and fell on the cement floor, fracturing his hip. | |||||
| 2016-03-19 | North Berwick | Maine | Pratt & Whitney, North Berwick Parts Center | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee on a ladder was unwiring a spindle motor from a grinding machine. The employee fell from the ladder to the concrete floor, fracturing the left wrist and left hip and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2016-02-05 | Berwick | Louisiana | Berry Bros. General Contractors, Inc. | Leg(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| The injured employee was part of a crew that was off loading a barge of 10' scrap pipe encased in concrete. One of the joints was not lying straight, so the injured employee stood on top of the pile of pipe kicking it in order to roll it into place. It rolled into place, and when it moved, he fell and another piece of pipe rolled up onto the back of his leg fracturing it. | |||||
| 2016-01-12 | Berwick | Pennsylvania | CARETTI INC | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee performing masonry work on a scaffold stepped back and fell 6 feet to the concrete floor, suffering a compound fracture to the lower right leg that required surgery. | |||||
| 2015-01-26 | Berwick | Pennsylvania | DELTA FABRICATING INC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
| On January 26, 2015, at approximately 6:15 AM, an employee sustained a severe left-hand injury while operating a metal roll forming machine. The employee was hospitalized and required surgical amputation of three fingers. | |||||
| 2015-01-11 | North Berwick | Maine | Varney Crossing Nursing Care Center | Nonclassifiable | Nonclassifiable |
| A CNA developed an abscess. The abscess was surgically removed and tested. The results of the test showed that it is MRSA. | |||||