Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-04-02 | Garfield | New Jersey | Primex Plastics Corporation | Wrist(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was standing on a pallet that a forklift operator had lifted approximately 10 feet in the air to remove an exhaust pipe. The employee fell from the pallet while attempting to remove the exhaust pipe and struck his left wrist on a water pipe as he fell to the floor. He suffered a severe fracture of his left wrist resulting in hospitalization. | |||||
2019-01-29 | Garfield Heights | Ohio | Dominion Energy Ohio | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An inspector was at a private residence performing general job duties, slipped on snow and ice and fell breaking the left hip. | |||||
2019-01-04 | Garfield | New Jersey | PRIMEX PLASTICS CORPORATION | Wrist(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was at a machine loading plastic film on a cardboard tube when the employee's wrist was fractured in the machine's roller. | |||||
2018-04-10 | Garfield | New Jersey | Kuiken Brothers Company Incorporated | Hip(s) | Struck by powered vehicle-nontransport |
An employee was operating a boom truck. He went to retrieve the outriggers from the driver's side and was caught in between the outrigger and the building wall. The employee suffered a fractured hip and internal bleeding. | |||||
2017-03-19 | Garfield Heights | Ohio | Daves Supermarkets | Leg(s) | Fall on same level |
An employee was walking down a grocery aisle when she fell and broke her leg, requiring hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
2016-10-04 | Garfield | New Jersey | Cid Construction Services, LLC | Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
An employee was hit by a mini-excavator bucket while walking, suffering a right shoulder injury. | |||||
2016-06-22 | Garfield | Arkansas | NATIONAL PARK SERVICE | Leg(s) | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
While driving down a park road in a utility vehicle, an employee lost control of the vehicle and hit a ditch. The vehicle fell on its side and pinned the employee's leg underneath. | |||||
2016-06-07 | Garfield Heights | Ohio | Time Warner Cable | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level |
On or about 6/7/2016, at approximately 1425, an employee was working from a ladder to access a cable TV lock box when the ladder kicked out, causing the employee to fall. As he fell, he struck a stairway railing and injured his left wrist/hand and ribs. |