Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2019-02-21 | Glen Rock | Pennsylvania | Adhesives Research, Inc. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was cleaning a slitter machine with a rag. The rag got caught on the rollers pulling his right hand into the machine. The employee sustained a degloving injury to the hand and a right thumb fracture. | |||||
2019-02-03 | Glen Rock | Pennsylvania | Penn-Mar Organization | Multiple body parts | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee had jacked up a car to change the front driver's side tire. While loosening the rim from the rotor, the car fell off the jack and struck the employee. The employee sustained fractures to the left shoulder and head. | |||||
2018-09-26 | Glen Rock | Pennsylvania | BIMAX, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
An employee was transporting a chemical tote when it began to leak. He then slipped and fell to the ground that was covered with the chemical. The employee suffered chemical burns that required hospitalization. | |||||
2017-04-25 | Glen Rock | Pennsylvania | Adhesives Research, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was wiping a bearing on the 50-gallon reactor with a rag when the rag was caught by the rack and pinion pulling the employee's left hand into the moving gears. The employee's left thumb tip was partially amputated. | |||||
2016-02-16 | Glen Rock | Pennsylvania | Adhesives Research, Inc. | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
As an employee walked to his truck in the parking lot of building 5, the employee slipped on snow and ice. The employee suffered a fractured left ankle requiring surgery. | |||||
2015-06-29 | Glen Rock | Pennsylvania | O' Shea Lumber Company Inc | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was clearing a clogged dust collector pipe. The employee was standing on a home-made platform that had been elevated approximately 10 feet in the air by a forklift. The platform measured approximately 12-feet long by 42-inches wide. The employee stepped off to the side of the platform where the platform was not supported by the forks, and the platform tipped from the forks. The employee fell approximately 10 feet to the ground below. The employee sustained nine broken ribs and a |