| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-07-30 | Fitchburg | Wisconsin | Klein-Dickert Milwaukee, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Other jump to lower level |
| An employee had been caulking while on an 8-foot ladder. The employee lost balance/footing while descending the ladder and jumped from the ladder. The employee impacted the floor and sustained a lower leg fracture requiring hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
| 2020-04-08 | Fitchburg | Wisconsin | Highway Light and Landscaping, Inc. | Arm(s) | Roadway collision-moving and standing vehicle in roadway |
| An employee was working out of a lineman truck bucket about 18 feet over a coned-off lane, installing traffic light mounts on an under-bridge deck. A semi tractor trailer swung wide and hit the bottom corner of the lineman truck bucket. The impact pinched the employee's arm between the bucket and bridge, breaking the arm. | |||||
| 2020-03-19 | Fitchburg | Massachusett | Avery Dennison Corporation Fastener Division | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was operating a bagger machine line when it became backed up and needed to be cleared. The employee switched the machine to manual and began clearing fasteners with his left hand. The bagger clamps closed on the employee's left ring finger and amputated the fingertip. | |||||
| 2020-01-16 | Fitchburg | Wisconsin | Nations Roof North, LLC | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet |
| An employee climbed an extension ladder with a 5-gallon bucket and was traversing from the ladder onto the roof when the employee's hand slipped while reaching for an upper rung. The employee lost hold and fell 18 feet to a lower roof, suffering fractures and a punctured lung. | |||||
| 2019-05-21 | Fitchburg | Wisconsin | Kraemer Brothers, LLC | Lower leg(s) | Struck, caught, or crushed in other collapsing structure or equipment |
| An employee was dismantling a shore tower at a construction site. The shore tower tipped over and struck the employee causing a compound fracture to the lower left leg. | |||||
| 2018-03-28 | Fitchburg | Massachusett | Fitchburg Paperboard | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was attempting to splice a roll after a blowout. He was bringing the tail from the reel under the rider roll and was positioned on the tending side of the winder as the tail came around the back of the roll. As he attempted to thread the tail under the rider roll, his finger became caught in the nip created by the rider roll and the roll of paper. He suffered an open fracture and amputation of his left index fingertip as a result. | |||||
| 2018-03-18 | Fitchburg | Massachusett | THE NEWARK GROUP, INC. | Pelvis | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was waiting as paper was being fed off a spool at the end of a paper reel into a dry end pulper. As the paper on the spool came to an end, the employee stepped onto the moving paper. As a result, his feet came out from underneath him and he fell fracturing his pelvis. | |||||
| 2016-10-03 | Fitchburg | Wisconsin | The Driller LLC | Lower leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| A worker was moving a piece of material with an excavator when it struck an employee's calf, causing a lateral laceration that required hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
| 2016-07-16 | Fitchburg | Massachusett | Simonds Industries Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was using a drill press and amputated a portion of the left middle finger. | |||||
| 2016-06-20 | Fitchburg | Massachusett | Reitil LLC | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| On 6/20/16, at approximately 10:30 AM, an employee was cleaning an injection molding machine when a coworker turned on the machine, causing a rod to puncture the employee's chest and lung. | |||||
| 2016-04-15 | Fitchburg | Massachusett | Avery Dennison Corporation Fastener Division | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was trying to clear a jam from a degater machine when his right middle fingertip and nail were amputated. He lost approximately one-eighth of an inch of his fingertip. | |||||
| 2016-01-26 | Fitchburg | Wisconsin | Saris Cycling Group | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee placed a carbon steel tube into a hydraulic tube bender and was activating the bar clamps to hold the tube in place when the second clamp crushed and amputated three left-hand fingers. | |||||
| 2015-12-06 | Fitchburg | Wisconsin | Placon Corporation dba Ecostar | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| While troubleshooting a jam on a crystallizer machine, an employee's left-hand middle and ring fingertips were amputated by the rotary airlock. The machine was not locked out at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2015-11-06 | Fitchburg | Massachusett | Installed Building Products, Inc. | Eye(s) | Struck by object or equipment |
| An employee was installing fiberglass insulation in a cellar when the metal hanger that holds the insulation under the floor hit and lacerated the employee's eye, requiring an operation. | |||||
| 2015-05-14 | Fitchburg | Wisconsin | Hammersley Stone Co., Inc. | Brain | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| A crane hook broke, causing its load to fall from the crane onto an employee. The employee's head was pinned between the load and a dump truck. | |||||
| 2015-01-05 | Fitchburg | Massachusett | Avery Dennison Corporation | Face | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| Employee's face was burned by hot plastic exploding from an injection molding machine. | |||||