Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-01-13 | Gorham | Me | C.N. Brown Company | Foot (feet) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker |
An employee was moving a crate of milk when it fell on his foot, lacerating it. The wound became infected and he was hospitalized. | |||||
2020-09-24 | Gorham | Me | Isherwood Enterprises, Inc | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
The driver of a full-sized bus was replacing a set of drive belts that had broken/frayed while he was on route with a busload of passengers. While doing so, his hand was caught between the crank shaft pulley and a belt resulting in severe lacerations to fingers and a fingertip amputation. | |||||
2020-03-04 | Gorham | Maine | Shaw Brothers Construction, Inc. | Wrist(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee was working on an excavator bucket, he tripped over a pry bar and fell to the floor, breaking and dislocating his left wrist. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-06-10 | Gorham | Maine | C.M. Cimino, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Struck, caught, or crushed in other collapsing structure or equipment |
An employee was knocking down a cinder block wall when the block wall fell on and injured him, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2019-05-20 | Gorham | Maine | Stanley Black and Decker | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Exposure to other harmful substance-multiple routes of exposure |
An employee felt dizzy and lightheaded while working in the black oxide room with chemicals. The employee was hospitalized with chemical burns to the lungs, chemical irritation, and skin blisters. |