Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-07-23 | Cambria | Il | Ameren Illinois | Upper and lower limb(s) | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
A substation employee was removing bolts from a recloser bushing. The employee's hand made contact with an energized wire, causing electrical burns to the employee's hand and leg. | |||||
2020-09-09 | Cambria | Wi | Seneca Foods Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was attempting to grab a can of corn from a palletizer when the magnetic palletizer arm came down and partially amputated the top of the employee's left index finger. | |||||
2020-06-24 | Cambria | Wisconsin | Seneca Foods Corporation | Multiple body parts | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee was weighing cans and placing gallon-sized cans on a small cart. While pulling the cart, the cart caught the employee's foot, causing the employee to trip and fall on the floor. The cart and three cans fell on her. She was hospitalized with a fractured wrist and hip. | |||||
2020-02-29 | Cambria | Wisconsin | Didion Milling | Multiple body parts | Fall through surface or existing opening |
On February 29, 2020, an employee was on an elevated platform to perform routine cleaning activities and fell through an open access hatch in the floor of the platform. The employee fell onto a metal grate and sustained fractures to both arms and a rib requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2019-04-29 | Northern Cambria | Pennsylvania | United State Postal Service | Ankle(s) | Climbing or stepping up or down-single episode |
An employee was delivering a package and suffered a dislocated ankle while stepping off a porch. The injury required surgery. | |||||
2017-04-12 | Cambria | Wisconsin | Didion Milling, Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was mixing mortar with a battery powered drill. The employee's glove was caught in the drill chuck pulling his hand into the drill resulting in amputation of the thumb. | |||||
2016-08-09 | New Cambria | Missouri | MFA INCORPORATED | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was helping a customer to move feed sacks on the back of the customer's flat bed truck. The employee stumbled and fell approximately four feet to the ground fracturing the left hip. | |||||
2015-10-01 | Cambria | Wisconsin | Del Monte Foods, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee and a coworker were installing a drive pin on a filler machine. The employee was holding the equipment while the coworker manually turned the filler. The employee's finger got pinched between the motor casing and the filler drum, amputating the left middle fingertip. | |||||
2015-07-03 | Northern Cambria | Pennsylvania | Comcast | Knee(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
An employee rolled his knee while kneeling in his work truck, resulting in a knee infection that required hospitalization. |