Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-05-21 | Frackville | Pennsylvania | Cracker Barrel | Multiple upper extremities locations | Other fall to lower level |
An employee climbed a ladder to hang a banner for Memorial Day and fell off the ladder, resulting in a dislocated shoulder and a splinter in the hand. The splinter had to be surgically removed. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2017-05-13 | Frackville | Pennsylvania | Boyer's Food Markets Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
On Saturday, May 13, 2017, at approximately 10:45 AM, an employee was slicing meat using a meat slicer. She placed her right hand on the slicer hold-down knob but her right thumb moved to the side of the hold-down/guard. As she proceeded to slice the lunch meat, her right thumb contacted the blade, amputating the thumb tip. | |||||
2016-09-13 | Frackville | Pennsylvania | Hollander Sleep Products, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Overexertion and bodily reaction |
While unloading a trailer by hand an employee suffered a possible heart attack. The employee was admitted to the hospital. | |||||
2015-06-11 | Frackville | Pennsylvania | Hollander Sleep Products | Skull | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was in the back of a trailer attempting to remove product when he either tripped or his foot caught on the trailer, resulting in him falling to the pavement and hitting his head. The employee suffered a closed head skull fracture. |