Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-10-10 | Duncan | Ok | Dollar Tree, Inc. | Ankle(s) | Collision between a moving and standing vehicle, nonroadway |
An employee driving a forklift and struck a parked forklift. The employee's left ankle was pinned between the two forklifts, resulting in three fractures. | |||||
2021-10-07 | Duncan | Ok | Dollar Tree, Inc. | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was walking down a flight of stairs when she slipped on the third step from the bottom and fell, resulting in a fractured right hip. | |||||
2021-09-16 | Duncanville | Tx | Life Storage 265 | Upper and lower limb(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee went to get merchandise out of a unit when her foot was caught in a door rope and she tripped and fell hitting her right knee and left shoulder. The employee sustained a broken kneecap and a dislocated shoulder. | |||||
2021-08-17 | Duncannon | Pa | Noaker¿s Auto Body LLC | Eye(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
An employee was dismantling a vehicle. When the employee struck a bolt with a hammer, a piece of metal went into the employee's eye. | |||||
2021-03-24 | Duncansville | Pa | Veeder-Root | Leg(s) | Indirect exposure to electricity |
An employee was moving a metal manifold with a jib hoist. The employee lowered the manifold onto the cart and was using both hands to position the manifold. The pendant struck the metal manifold and hoist lifting hook and broke the back cover off which exposed the live electrical terminals. The terminals then contacted the metal and shocked the employee resulting in a burn to the back of their left leg. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2021-03-23 | Duncansville | Pa | DN Tanks LLC | Foot(feet) and leg(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee lost his balance on a straight ladder and fell. He sustained fractures to a leg and foot. | |||||
2021-02-03 | Duncansville | Pa | Veeder-Root | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was operating a press to manufacture parts. The employee activated the press with a two-hand control and then reached into the area where the part was located before the ram returned to the top. The employee's left ring finger was caught between the guard and the plate, resulting in a fingertip amputation without bone loss. | |||||
2020-06-22 | Duncanville | Texas | Cabinet Works Group LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
A maintenance mechanic was replacing a wheel on a machine and sustained the amputation of the right index finger. | |||||
2019-07-20 | Duncan | Oklahoma | AT & T | Upper and lower limb(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee fell from a ladder while cutting a tree branch. The employee struck the ground and suffered a broken left femur and dislocated left shoulder. | |||||
2019-05-23 | Duncanville | Alabama | Dominion Construction Co., Inc. | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was climbing a ladder to adjust the tarp on his dump truck when he fell from the top of the dump truck to the ground, injuring his head and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2019-05-15 | Duncanville | Texas | Winco Foods | Nonclassifiable | Intentional injury by other person |
An employee was involved in an altercation with a shoplifter and was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-02-19 | Duncanville | Texas | Red Lobster | Brain | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee slipped in a kitchen and fell to the floor, striking his face and hand. He was hospitalized, having suffered lacerations requiring sutures, a concussion, and a cheekbone injury that required surgery. | |||||
2018-02-06 | Duncanville | Texas | Longhorn Sign Company, LLC. | Brain | Pedestrian vehicular incident |
An employee was struck by a moving vehicle while setting up a traffic control plan to install a sign. The employee suffered a head injury. | |||||
2017-03-17 | Duncansville | Pennsylvania | Spherion Staffing | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was troubleshooting one of the vacuum cleaners and contacted the motor fan blade resulting in amputation of his right middle fingertip. | |||||
2015-12-10 | Duncan | Oklahoma | Lynden Transport | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was standing on the back of a highway van trailer, pulling on a pallet with a hook. The hook disconnected from the pallet, causing the employee to fall off the trailer and hit the ground. He was hospitalized with broken ribs, a punctured lung, and a displaced ribcage. | |||||
2015-08-14 | Duncanville | Texas | Masco Cabinetry, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee's finger was partially amputated after getting caught between a wood part and work table while feeding parts into a gusset machine. | |||||
2015-06-19 | Duncansville | Pennsylvania | Veeder-Root | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee sustained an amputation of the left ring fingertip while operating a drill press. | |||||
2015-03-06 | Duncanville | Texas | DeFord Lumber Company | Nonclassifiable | Struck by falling object or equipment |
An employee was unloading a truck with trusses. He was unbanning the metal band on the side of the truck when the band broke and caused a bundle of trusses to fall on the employee. | |||||
2015-01-12 | Duncanville | Texas | Masco Cabinetry, LLC | Hand(s) | Struck against object or equipment |
Employee was changing drill bits on a pocket boring machine. He set his hand down on the machine to look under it and his hand engaged with the drill bit. | |||||
2015-01-07 | Duncanville | Texas | Rice Tunneling & Boring Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level |
Employee was operating a horizontal drilling machine when the drive shaft came loose and hit the guard. This broke the guard, which then hit the employee's seat. The employee was knocked off the machine. |