Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-09-05 | Brewster | Ny | Ace Endico Corporation | Foot (feet) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
An employee was operating a pallet jack to select product for an order. The employee was maneuvering the pallet jack around a steel bollard in the warehouse when his feet were pinned between the bollard and the pallet jack resulting in a right foot fracture and a laceration on the left foot requiring stitches. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2021-05-11 | Brewster | Ny | United States Postal Service | Arm(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping |
An employee was walking through a post office when they tripped and fell to the floor. The employee was hospitalized with broken bones in the right knee. | |||||
2021-04-02 | Brewster | Ma | WHITCOMB BUILDING & REMODELING, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was using a saw that was binding. He was holding a board with his right hand and reaching with his left hand when the saw amputated his left thumb from the knuckle up. | |||||
2020-02-26 | Brewster | New York | Materion Corp. | Nonclassifiable | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was operating a surface grinder and suffered an amputation. | |||||
2018-09-24 | Brewster | New York | Dunmore International Corporation | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was preparing a metallizer machine to insert a new roll of material to run for production when their right arm was caught inside the machine and lacerated. | |||||
2017-04-05 | Brewster | Ohio | Brewster Cheese, Inc. | Hand(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was removing a 360 lb. block of cheese from the cutting harp and suffered an amputation injury to the left hand. | |||||
2017-02-16 | Brewster | Massachusett | Apex Solar Power LLC | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
While descending from a roof, an employee fell 8 feet to the ground and injured his left lower leg. | |||||
2016-04-08 | Brewster | New York | Sears In-Home Services | Upper arm(s) | Overexertion in lifting-single episode |
An employee was lifting a dryer off of another appliance with a coworker when she tore her bicep, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2016-02-11 | Brewster | New York | Lamothermic Precision Investment Casting Corp. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was cutting castings off of trees with a saw when the sawblade caught or broke and pulled his hand into the blade. His right-hand ring finger was amputated, and the back of his hand was lacerated. |