Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-06-02 | Gloucester City | New Jersey | World Pack | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was clearing debris from a machine. Power was turned back on, and his right arm was pulled under a roller and broken. | |||||
2018-08-10 | New Gloucester | Maine | McCann Fabrication | Brain | Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c. |
An employee was driving a forklift when he struck a pallet of pipes. A pipe then hit his head, causing head trauma that required hospitalization. | |||||
2018-07-28 | Gloucester | Massachusett | BOMCO, INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was forming aluminum sheets in a press brake when he suffered the amputation of the tip of the fingernail and skin on right index finger. | |||||
2017-10-17 | New Gloucester | Maine | MCCANN FABRICATION | Fingertip(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
An employee was removing or changing three dies on a hydraulic press brake when the top die, weighing approximately 250 pounds, fell and crushed the employee's left index fingertip. The fingertip had to be surgically amputated to the bottom of the nail. | |||||
2017-08-18 | Gloucester City | New Jersey | Gloucester Terminals, LLC. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee began to experience arm and leg cramps while slinging slabs in the hold of a ship, requiring hospitalization for possible heat exhaustion. | |||||
2017-08-12 | Gloucester City | New Jersey | Thermoseal Industries LLC. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was cutting a piece of metal with a shear machine when the machine amputated the employee's thumb tip. The machine was unguarded at the time. | |||||
2017-04-12 | Gloucester City | New Jersey | Holt Logistics | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was hospitalized after his fingers were crushed when a slab was lowered onto them. | |||||
2017-02-10 | Gloucester | Massachusett | Applied Materials | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level |
An employee fell from a ladder while cleaning snow from a vent. The employee sustained several injuries and was hospitalized. | |||||
2017-01-11 | Gloucester City | New Jersey | Gloucester Terminal LLC | Foot (feet) | Entangled in other object or equipment |
An employee was signaling a load into the terminal when his foot got caught in the chain rigging as it moved. The employee suffered multiple foot fractures. | |||||
2016-09-14 | Gloucester | Massachusett | National Fish & Seafood, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
On 9/14/16, an employee was transferring cleaning chemical from a 55-gallon drum into a larger tote when the chemical transfer pump blew a hose off the hose bar and sprayed chemicals on the employee's face, arms, and torso. The employee was hospitalized with chemical burns. | |||||
2016-07-29 | Gloucester City | New Jersey | Gloucester Terminals, LLC. | Leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was helping to place chocks under a rail loaded on a truck. The rail fell off the truck and fractured his left leg. | |||||
2016-06-18 | Gloucester City | New Jersey | Universal Supply Co. | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was attempting to retrieve something from on top of a racking system when the employee fell through the racking and suffered a head injury, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2016-03-08 | Gloucester | Massachusett | Dave Grondin | Eye(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
An employee was pulling a nail with a pair of 6" channel lock pliers when the nail broke and released from the pliers. A nail fragment went under the employee's safety glasses and punctured the globe of the employee's left eye. | |||||
2015-12-07 | Gloucester City | New Jersey | GLOUCESTER TERMINAL, LLC. | Foot (feet) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee was hospitalized when a forklift ran over his foot. | |||||
2015-05-27 | Gloucester City | New Jersey | Gloucester Terminals | Nonclassifiable | Fall through surface or existing opening 6 to 10 feet |
An employee performing diagnostic tests on a crane fell approximately 7.5 feet through an open hatch and was hospitalized. | |||||
2015-02-02 | Gloucester City | New Jersey | Gloucester Terminals LLC | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
Employee fell from a deck at a height of approximately 8 feet and broke an ankle. |