| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-10 | Canon | Ga | Canon Egg Farm | Fingertip(s) | Struck by rolling object or equipment being pushed by injured worker |
| Employees were moving bird carts from the bird truck into the layer house. An employee's left middle finger was caught between the cart he was moving and the metal housing for the load bar. The employee's left middle fingertip was partially amputated. | |||||
| 2021-02-25 | Canonsburg | Pa | Pennsylvania Transformer Technology, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was moving a steel coil that was 4.5" in width and weighed 1,340 lbs. from where it was being stored to the machine using an overhead crane. As the employee was attempting to roll the steel coil out from where it was stored to attach it to the crane, it started to become off balance and tipped over, landing on the employee's legs. The employee was trapped under the steel coil and sustained a broken tibia and fibula that required surgery. | |||||
| 2020-10-02 | Canonsburg | Pa | Steel Core Construction | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was snipping a piece of wire off of a horizontal, temporary, piece of rebar. The rebar fell and struck the employee's thumb resulting in an amputation. | |||||
| 2020-04-06 | Canonsburg | Pennsylvania | Barr Street Corporation | Multiple body parts | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was transferring a patient from a bed to a wheelchair. The brakes on the wheelchair failed and the employee fell, suffering injuries to her right upper leg, hip, and elbow. | |||||
| 2020-02-27 | Canon City | Colorado | TOAB, Inc. | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was putting tires on a rack. He fell from the rack to the floor, suffering a head injury that caused brain bleeding. | |||||
| 2019-06-06 | Canonsburg | Pennsylvania | PA Transformer Technology, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was cutting winding pins on a band saw when the pin slipped and the employee made contact with the blade. The employee sustained an amputation to one of their fingers. | |||||
| 2019-01-31 | Canon City | Colorado | Interroll Engineering | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was running a vertical milling machine. During the milling process, he was brushing away particles (swarf) near the cutting surface when his glove became caught while the mill was still cutting. The machine then pulled the glove and his left pinky fingertip from his hand, amputating it to the first knuckle. | |||||
| 2019-01-30 | Canonsburg | Pennsylvania | Universal Electric Corporation | Hip(s) | Nonclassifiable |
| An employee was found on the floor with a broken hip, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2019-01-07 | Canonsburg | Pennsylvania | All-Clad Metalcrafters, LLC | Lower leg(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee tripped on a cord and fell on the concrete floor, landing on the right knee. The employee was hospitalized with a right knee contusion and right tibia fracture. | |||||
| 2018-09-25 | Canonsburg | Pennsylvania | FirstEnergy Service Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
| Employees were using two 10-ton hydraulic rams in disassembling a sump pump. The rams slipped from position, hitting an employee's left thumb and causing a comminuted distal phalanx fracture. The thumb was subsequently amputated at the base of the nail. | |||||
| 2018-07-12 | Canonsburg | Pennsylvania | Universal Electric Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| A CNC machine operator suffered an amputation to the left little finger, from the hail to the end of the finger. | |||||
| 2018-01-31 | Canonsburg | Pennsylvania | Sung Ho Ham | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee fell off an 8-foot ladder while performing residential construction, hitting the porch surface below and tearing ligaments in his back. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-01-17 | Canonsburg | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania Transformer Technology, Inc. | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a drill press when his sleeve became wrapped around the bit, fracturing his arm in two places and requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2017-09-28 | Canonsburg | Pennsylvania | Pennsyvlania Transformer Technology, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was testing wire connections on a transformer when an electrical backflow occurred, shocking the employee. He suffered electrical burns to his hand and side. The shock also caused him to fall and fracture his shoulder and T9 vertebra. | |||||
| 2017-08-07 | Canon | Georgia | Canon Egg Farm | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| Two employees conducting maintenance had just installed a new case belt and were working to make sure the belt was tracking correctly. The injured employee's left hand was caught between the belt and the end-roller, partially amputating his ring fingertip. | |||||
| 2017-01-04 | Canonsburg | Pennsylvania | All Clad Metalcrafters, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| On January 4, 2017, an employee was replacing a paper roll on a mill polisher machine when his left thumb was caught in a pinch point on the machine. His left thumb tip was surgically amputated. | |||||
| 2016-09-17 | Canon | Georgia | Rose Acre Farms | BODY SYSTEMS | Ingestion of harmful substance |
| An employee exited the poultry building to take a water break. The employee mistakenly ingested diluted Virocid thinking it was water, suffering stomach pain and vomiting that required hospitalization. | |||||
| 2016-07-25 | Canonsburg | Pennsylvania | Steel Nation Environmental | Lower leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| On 7/25/16, at around 2:30 p.m., an employee slipped and his foot was crushed by construction equipment. He broke his tibia and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2016-07-01 | Canon City | Colorado | Interroll | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was inspecting a conveyor when his hand was caught in a roller and his arm was pulled into the conveyor, breaking it. | |||||
| 2016-06-22 | Canonsburg | Pennsylvania | Universal Electric Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was trying to clear a jam in a cutting machine. When the jam cleared, the machine automatically started back up, amputating the employee's right ring finger. | |||||
| 2016-05-27 | Canon City | Colorado | Cotter Corporation (N.S.L.) Canon City Mill Site | Leg(s) | Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object |
| An employee drove up in his truck to access a standpipe by the road. He got out of the truck and began lowering an electronic probe down on a reel and cable to measure the depth to water. The truck then moved and pinned/crushed his leg between the bumper and the standpipe. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2016-05-17 | Canonsburg | Pennsylvania | Mid-Ohio Pipeline Services | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was trying to unattach the hook from a lifting "eye" on the top of a compressor after it was moved when his pinky fingertip was caught and amputated between the hook and the "eye." | |||||
| 2016-05-09 | Canon | Georgia | COLUMBIA FARMS OF GEORGIA, INC. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| On May 09, 2016, an employee was helping to secure a truck onto a trailer to be towed away when he fell approximately four feet from the trailer to the ground below resulting in three broken ribs and a punctured lung. | |||||
| 2015-10-15 | Canon City | Colorado | CC Fab | Multiple body parts | Ignition of clothing from controlled heat source |
| An employee was welding with a cutting torch when a piece of hot slag landed on his shirt, which caught on fire. He suffered third degree burns to his left arm, hand, shoulder, and torso. | |||||
| 2015-06-10 | Canon City | Colorado | Discover Goodwill of Southern and Western Colorado | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| A retail associate was walking to the front of the store through clothing racks. She tripped on a comforter that was left on the floor by a customer and fell. She fractured her right femur and required surgery to repair the fracture. | |||||
| 2015-01-21 | Canon | Georgia | Rose Acre Farms Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Nonclassifiable |
| An employee was involved in an accident that resulted in the partial amputation of the left pinky finger. | |||||