Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-07-03 | Freehold | New Jersey | US Postal Service | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was sitting on a stool after working a shift. He lost consciousness and fell off the stool due to dehydration. | |||||
2020-04-22 | Freehold | New Jersey | Staples | Head and trunk | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was taking down or placing chairs in storage while standing on the top platform of a rolling stair ladder when he fainted and fell to the concrete floor. He was hospitalized with a fractured skull, fractured spine, and a broken rib. | |||||
2019-02-23 | Freehold | New Jersey | Jako Enterprises LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
An employee's finger was caught in shelving and was hospitalized after sustaining a partial finger amputation. | |||||
2017-02-07 | Freehold | New Jersey | Waste Management | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
An employee fell to the ground while exiting a truck cab, hitting and injuring his head. | |||||
2016-09-22 | Freehold | New Jersey | Red Lion Insulation | Knee(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee on stilts slipped on plastic while installing insulation in a building and fell, tearing a knee tendon and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2016-07-05 | Freehold | New Jersey | The Manor | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee passed out while preparing trays in the kitchen due to the heat. | |||||
2016-06-15 | Freehold | New Jersey | Ram Trucking & Rigging Inc. | Head and trunk | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee was moving a switch gear into place when it fell on him. He was hospitalized with a head gash and broken ribs. | |||||
2015-08-06 | Freehold | New Jersey | Arbon Equipment | Hand(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
A worker was servicing a dock door that was out of track when he got his hand caught in the door cable. | |||||
2015-08-06 | Freehold | New Jersey | Shore Point Distributing | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle |
An employee's foot was run over by a forklift after he stepped off of the lift resulting in a fractured fourth toe and broken pinky toe. The parking brake was not set on the lift. | |||||
2015-07-30 | Freehold | New Jersey | International Vitamin Company | Multiple body parts | Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c. |
An employee was operating a motorized pallet jack when he bumped into a stack of adjacent pallets. The pallets fell on him, causing contusions to his head, arms, legs, and hands. | |||||
2015-07-14 | Freehold | New Jersey | Freehold Cartage Inc | Nonclassifiable | Contact with hot objects or substances |
A worker was welding the underside of a truck when the flame flashed back through a stress fracture in the fitting causing slag to hit the torch. The torch fell into his lap causing 2nd and 3rd degree burns. | |||||
2015-02-06 | Freehold | New Jersey | JBL Electric | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level |
Employee was preparing his truck to do electrical work on a pole. When he turned around, he missed the stairs and fell to the ground. |