Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-05-15 | Brodheadsville | Pennsylvania | ShopRite of Brodheadsville | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level |
A maintenance employee was fixing a refrigerator diffuser in a produce cooler that was leaking water. The produce cooler has dock doors for truck deliveries. The employee was squeegeeing the water out of the produce cooler when he slipped on the water and fell off the dock onto the concrete below. He suffered a broken hip. | |||||
2019-09-12 | Horseheads | New York | Studco Buildings Systems US, LLC | Head and trunk | Other fall to lower level |
While adjusting material on a delivery truck's flatbed trailer, an employee fell from the trailer to the ground. The employee suffered a broken hip, broken ribs, and cranial bleeding. | |||||
2019-01-23 | Sneads | Florida | SunSouth Builders, LLC. | Head and trunk | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was on the roof of a new one-story house installing fascia and a drip cap when he lost his footing and fell 10 feet to the ground below. He was hospitalized with a broken back and head trauma. | |||||
2017-04-06 | Eads | Colorado | Dresser Rand | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was using a pneumatic chipping gun to demolish a concrete foundation when the chipping gun fell from the employee's hands. As he tried to catch it, he fell 8 feet to the ground, suffering fractured vertebrae and a head laceration. | |||||
2015-05-26 | Horseheads | New York | RIMCO PLASTIC CORPORATION | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
An employee was setting up the in-line vacuum forming machine line. The guard was off at the time of the incident and the interlock held down with a clamp. At the trim press stage, the employee came in contact with the steel rule die and amputated the index and middle fingers on the right hand. |