| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-28 | Ellwood City | Pa | Swank Construction Company, LLC | Multiple body parts | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in work zone |
| An employee was flagging in a work zone on the shoulder of a road when they were struck by a motor vehicle, resulting in fractured ankles, legs, and vertebrae. | |||||
| 2020-02-27 | Ellwood City | Pennsylvania | Adams Manufacturing Corporation | Multiple body parts | Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway |
| An employee was in the back of a truck, loading it with product. The truck started and began to pull away from the dock. The employee fell out of the back of the truck and landed on the concrete ground. The employee suffered a broken ankle, a broken left tibia and fibula, and two broken ribs, and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-05-21 | Ellwood City | Pennsylvania | The International Metals Reclamation Company, Inc. | Leg(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was filling a sweeping machine with water using a hose. The employee pulled on the hose, got tripped up, and fell backwards, breaking the right leg and requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2017-06-21 | Ellwood City | Pennsylvania | Ellwood City Forge, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was unloading forgings from a furnace to the floor where they were placed on rails using an overhead crane and lifting chains. As the employee was unhooking the lifting chains from the forgings on the rails, the chain hook became caught on the rail. The employee used a metal bar to attempt to free up the chain hook. When the chain hook was freed, the hook swung back and came into contact with a metal wedge that is used to keep the forgings in place on the rail. When the wedge was mov | |||||
| 2016-06-29 | Ellwood City | Pennsylvania | Hall Industries, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| Two employees were manually handling two pieces of 3" x 3" x 3/8" angle iron that were 20-feet long, attempting to get the pieces on a band saw. As the employees moved the angle iron onto the saw, the injured employee's right pinky finger was caught between the angle iron and the saw table, amputating the fingertip. | |||||
| 2016-02-12 | Ellwood City | Pennsylvania | The International Metals Reclamation Company LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| An employee was walking/working along the casting line as steel was being cast. He was wearing a PAPR unit around his waist line when his PAPR cartridge overheated and started to burn, filling his PAPR mask with smoke. The employee suffered from flu-like symptoms caused by smoke inhalation. | |||||
| 2015-10-31 | Ellwood City | Pennsylvania | Ellwood City Forge, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was using an oxygen acetylene torch to cut a metal side plate/panel, that had been removed from a machine. As the employee was cutting the metal, a part of the plate broke free from the cutting operation and fell onto the employee's left lower leg fracturing it. The employee was hospitalized for surgery on the lower left leg as a result of the incident. | |||||