| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-13 | Dunmore | Pa | Barry Callebaut USA LLC | Head | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was wrapping plastic around a pallet when they tripped over a leg of a conveyor system, fell, and hit their head on the concrete floor, resulting in hematoma. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-06-29 | Dunmore | Pa | Rite-Temp Group, LTD | Head and neck | Fall through surface or existing opening 21 to 25 feet |
| An employee was on the roof to perform preventative maintenance on an air conditioning system. As the employee moved to a higher section of the roof, they fell approximately 25 feet through a skylight to the concrete below, resulting in a brain bleed, facial fractures, and a laceration to the carotid artery. | |||||
| 2021-05-13 | Dunmore | Pa | DUNMORE MATERIALS | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee's right hand was caught and crushed in the pulley of an asphalt conveyor. | |||||
| 2020-09-10 | Dunmore | Pa | McGregor Industries Inc. | Forearm(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was using an angle grinder when it kicked back and lacerated the employee's forearm, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2018-05-03 | Dunmore | Pennsylvania | Avanti Cigar Company, Inc. | Hand(s) and arm(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was unloading the hot melt glue from a heated reservoir of a glue application machine. He unloaded the unit into a medium-sized cardboard box. The volume of material was about 2 gallons. He then immediately carried the open-top cardboard box outside to the dumpster. He attempted to cleanly throw the box into the dumpster, but the box hit either the edge of the dumpster or something else and bounced back towards him. The hot glue was expelled from the box and landed on both of his bar | |||||
| 2017-04-12 | Dunmore | Pennsylvania | Gertrude Hawk Chocolates, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning grease from a sprocket with a rag when the rag got caught in the sprocket and pulled the employee's fingers into the sprocket and chain. The employee's right index and middle fingers were partially amputated. | |||||
| 2015-09-29 | Dunmore | Pennsylvania | Wildcat LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Nonclassifiable |
| An employee cut their left thumb on September 29, 2015. On October 1, 2015 the employee was hospitalized for a severe infection in the thumb. | |||||
| 2015-04-28 | Dunmore | Pennsylvania | East Coast Logistics & Distribution Inc | Hip(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was seriously injured when cases of paper products fell and knocked the employee down fracturing the employee's hip. | |||||