Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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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. | |||||
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. | |||||
2019-01-30 | 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. | |||||
2017-01-04 | 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. | |||||
2016-07-25 | 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. | |||||
2016-06-22 | 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. | |||||
2016-05-17 | 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." |