Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-03-15 | Guilford | Me | PURITAN MEDICAL PRODUCTS COMPANY, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was adjusting a machine when it cycled and its parts caused the amputation of the employee's middle fingertip. | |||||
2020-04-10 | Guilford | Maine | Central Maine Power | Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
During power restoration work after a storm related outage, a crew was assigned to clear a broken pole and low wires from a roadway. An employee was removing the remaining primary take off conductor. The pole dropped straight down, but then bounced back up and towards him. The telephone cable struck him in the neck region, knocking him unconscious, and pinning him in the bucket. The employee was hospitalized with a contusion to the right side of the neck and possible injuries to his thyroid and | |||||
2018-02-23 | Guilford | Connecticut | Rea Magnet Wire Company, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was setting up a three-stand mill machine. As he placed his right hand on the block, his left hand pressed the jog forward button instead of the tension off button, causing the block to rotate counterclockwise and amputate his right middle and ring fingertips. The jog button was unguarded at the time. | |||||
2016-06-22 | Guilford | Maine | Hardwood Products Company, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was attempting to clean a molding machine when the rotating dowel knife blade amputated his thumb and forefinger. The machine was unguarded at the time of the incident. | |||||
2016-05-13 | Guilford | Connecticut | Rea Magnet Wire Company, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
A maintenance employee was troubleshooting a machine when his right middle and ring fingertips were amputated by the machine's unguarded chains and sprockets. | |||||
2015-12-01 | Guilford | Connecticut | KMK Insulation Inc. | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
While climbing a fixed metal ladder (ship's ladder) to the high roof of a high school building, an employee slipped and fell approximately 12 feet to the ground, landing on his back and fracturing two vertebrae. |