| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-02-09 | South Hadley | Massachusett | Mount Holyoke College | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Overexertion in lifting-single episode |
| An employee was restocking the ice cream bar and lifting boxes from a lower level to table height and was hospitalized for a back strain. | |||||
| 2018-04-06 | Hadley | Massachusett | Paragus Strategic IT, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was cutting lettuce with a standard chef's cutting knife when the blade amputated the employee's thumb tip. | |||||
| 2017-07-08 | Hadley | Massachusett | DICK'S SPORTING GOODS, INC. | Lumbar region | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee fell off a ladder while trying to get merchandise down from a shelf, fracturing his lumbar vertebrae and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-05-12 | Hadley | Massachusett | Four Seasons Property Maintenance, LLC | Ankle(s) and leg(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was using a string trimmer while standing on an uphill incline when he lost footing as a mower approached from behind. His foot slid backwards and into the path of the mower deck, which severed his Achilles tendon and ligaments and broke bones in his lower leg. A mulching block-off plate was not in place on the mower's discharge opening and pulley guards were not installed at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2017-03-09 | South Hadley | Massachusett | ASSOCIATED BUILDERS, INC. | Hip(s) | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area |
| An employee was grading gravel next to a backhoe when the control lever got stuck and struck him in the hip resulting in a fracture in the ball-and-socket joint area. | |||||
| 2017-01-08 | Hadley | Massachusett | Lowe's Home Centers, LLC | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was ringing out a customer at the cash register when she walked around the shopping cart to scan a product. As she was returning to the register, she struck the corner of the cart and tripped and fell, fracturing her left hip. | |||||
| 2016-06-21 | South Hadley | Massachusett | KEATING-WILBERT VAULT CO., INC. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was lowering a concrete lid onto a vault. As he was adjusting its position, his gloved pinky finger was caught between the vault and the lid, amputating his fingertip. | |||||
| 2016-04-16 | Hadley | Massachusett | Whole Foods Market Group, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| While an employee was cutting product in the deli, the employee's knife came into contact with a hole in the employee's glove, amputating the left middle fingertip and fingernail. | |||||