Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-10-21 | Hamilton | Nj | ISC Structures | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Overexertion and bodily reaction |
An employee was strapping steel beams onto a truck bed when they suffered a back injury and became immobilized. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2021-10-12 | Hamilton | Nj | BJ's Wholesale Club | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
An employee was reassembling a deli slicer. The slicer cut the employee's finger, causing a partial amputation. | |||||
2021-10-11 | Hamilton | Oh | The Hydaker-Wheatlake Company | Fingertip(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in roadway |
An employee was guiding the bucket of a backyard machine as it was being offloaded from the trailer on a residential street. The bucket caught the trailer as it was unloaded, causing the bucket to rotate and create a pinch point between the bucket mount (a steel bracket) and a hydraulic strut. The employee's left hand was caught between the top of the bucket and the hydraulic strut, and his index fingertip was amputated. | |||||
2021-09-11 | Hamilton | Oh | Neturen America Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
An employee was wire drawing when two wires overlapped. The employee was working to unwrap the wires when his fingers were pinched by the draw-line machine. The employee's right index, middle, and ring fingertips were amputated. The machine was running at the time of the incident. | |||||
2021-08-26 | Hamilton | Nj | Walmart | Arm(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee was watering plants. The employee tripped over a garden hose and fell to the ground, suffering a broken arm. | |||||
2021-08-02 | Hamilton | Oh | Hamilton Rural King Supply, Inc. | Foot (feet) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
An employee was on their hands and knees going through a pallet of products. A forklift backed into the employee, who suffered a broken foot. | |||||
2021-06-30 | Hamilton | Nj | SDB Package and Delivery | Nonclassifiable | Pedestrian vehicular incident |
An employee was hospitalized after being struck by a forklift. | |||||
2020-08-31 | Hamilton | Nj | Sunoco | Brain | Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving |
A customer punched an employee, who hit his head on the ground (causing contusions) and lost consciousness. | |||||
2020-08-13 | Hamilton | Nj | Fairway Architectural Railing Solutions | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was picking up a dropped part near a drill press when the press caught and lacerated the employee's right ring finger. | |||||
2020-07-24 | Hamilton | Texas | C&F Steel Company, Inc. | Pelvis | Struck by discharged object or substance |
An employee was walking past a machine-operated press when it ejected material, which struck the employee and broke the employee's pelvis. | |||||
2020-04-20 | Hamilton | Ohio | Millwood, Inc. | Knee(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee was walking from a trailer to an office with paperwork when the employee's knee gave out. The employee fell onto the concrete ground and broke the kneecap. | |||||
2020-03-19 | Hamilton | Ohio | United Performance Metals, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was strapping product to a skid. The employee's gloved left middle finger was caught between the strap and the product, and the fingertip was amputated. | |||||
2020-01-31 | Hamilton | Ohio | Kettering Health Network | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Self-inflicted shooting-unintentional |
A security officer was attending to an aggressive dog(s) by the patient entrance to the hospital. During the intervention with the dog(s), the officer was bitten. At that point, the officer discharged a firearm at the dog and the discharged round struck the officer in the left little finger area. | |||||
2019-03-28 | Hamilton | New Jersey | Ted Dolci, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by rolling object or equipment being pushed by injured worker |
An employee was rolling a 15-inch by 12-foot pipe off a trailer. When the pipe started to roll, a band clamp on it bent. The pipe caught the employee's glove and pulled the employee off the trailer. The employee's wrist and hand were crushed under the pipe; the employee's thumb was amputated and other fingers were crushed, with skin torn off exposing bone. | |||||
2018-09-10 | Hamilton | Ohio | Rent A Center East | Wrist(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was standing on a lift gate and engaged the gate's controls. As the lift approached the bed of a box truck, the employee's right wrist was caught between the control box and the lift. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured right wrist and had surgery. | |||||
2018-06-19 | Lake Hamilton | Florida | Rush Truck Center | Brain | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was conducting maintenance on a truck while standing on a ladder when the employee fell 6 feet to the ground, head first. The employee suffered a concussion and cut above the right ear. | |||||
2017-07-28 | Hamilton | Georgia | H&G Electric Company, Inc. | Skull | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
The injured employee was inside the plant in the basket of a 60' aerial lift with another employee at the lift controls. The injured employee's head was pinned between the basket and the ceiling beam resulting in a fractured skull and bleeding from the nose and mouth. The injuries will require surgery. | |||||
2017-06-05 | Hamilton | Ohio | Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park and Museum | Brain | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was struck on the head by a falling tree limb while cutting branches. | |||||
2017-04-27 | Hamilton | Alabama | Cavalier Home Builders, LLC | Lower leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee was sitting on the ground when a loaded trailer pulled forward and rolled over his leg, resulting in hospitalization for a fracture to his leg. | |||||
2017-03-29 | Hamilton | Ohio | Interstate Warehousing | Lumbar region | Overexertion and bodily reaction |
An employee was loading a climate controlled trailer with palletized product and experienced back pain. The employee suffered a slipped disc in the lower back resulting in a pinched nerve. | |||||
2017-03-20 | Hamilton | Ohio | Matandy Steel & Metal Products, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was using a battery-powered plastic banding tool to wrap a coil of steel. As he tightened the band, his left index fingertip was caught between the band and the coil, resulting in a deep laceration. His left index fingertip had to be amputated. | |||||
2017-02-27 | Hamilton | New Jersey | ISC Structures | Lower leg(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was unloading blocks when his leg got caught in the groove of the block as it lifted resulting in a fractured left tibia and fibula. | |||||
2017-02-01 | Hamilton | Ohio | Innovative Solutions | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
On 2/1/17, an employee was operating the printing press when his left hand was pulled into a pinch point. The employee was hospitalized due to his injury. | |||||
2016-10-14 | Hamilton | New Jersey | UPS | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was unjamming a piece of equipment and two fingers were caught resulting in a deep laceration to one finger and a fingertip amputation on the other. | |||||
2016-09-09 | Hamilton | Ohio | Takumi Stamping Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
On September 9, 2016, an employee attempted to remove a part from a welding machine while a setup person was making adjustments on the machine. The welding tip came down and amputated the employee's right thumb. | |||||
2016-07-08 | Hamilton | Ohio | Bowlin Group, LLC | Foot (feet) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee stepped off the back of a truck bed and slipped, breaking his left foot. | |||||
2016-06-10 | Hamilton | New Jersey | UPS | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee took packages off a conveyor, stepped back, and fell, severely fracturing the ankle. | |||||
2016-06-01 | Hamilton | Ohio | Auto Zone, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was checking brakes on a customer's vehicle in the parking lot. The car rolled and the employee's finger was caught in the wheel resulting in amputation of the right index fingertip. | |||||
2016-05-24 | Hamilton | Ohio | Connector Manufacturing Company | Hand(s) and finger(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
On May 24, 2016, at 6:30 a.m., an employee was helping to guide a platform into position while a coworker used a crane to lift it. While guiding the platform, the employee's fingers entered the open walking surface grating. He suffered hand and finger injuries, including possible broken bones and/or finger amputations. | |||||
2016-05-05 | Hamilton | New York | Den Kelly Chevrolet Buick GMC | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was using a manual power mower when he slipped going down into a ditch. The employee suffered a right second toe amputation when his foot went under the mower deck and made contact with the cutting blade. | |||||
2016-03-09 | Hamilton | New Jersey | Big Lots Inc. | Foot (feet) | Struck by object or equipment rolling freely |
An employee was pulling a pallet of water when she stopped on a ramp with the pallet. The pallet continued to move and rolled onto her leg, fracturing her left foot. | |||||
2015-11-13 | Hamilton | Ohio | United States Postal Service | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was delivering mail to a private residence and stepped up one step to put mail in a mailbox. As he was turning around to step down, he lost his balance and fell, breaking his right hip. | |||||
2015-11-11 | Hamilton | Mississippi | Farmer's Gin, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was cleaning the feed section of a lint cleaner. The machine was running at the time. While he was removing lint, his left hand got caught by the machine and was pulled in up to his forearm. A coworker working about 10 feet away ran over and turned off the machine. The employee's middle and index fingertips were smashed between two rollers. | |||||
2015-10-11 | Hamilton | Mississippi | Farmer's Gin Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
An employee got both hands caught into a series of rotating chains and sprockets resulting into the amputation of four fingers on his left hand and the tips of three fingers on his right hand. | |||||
2015-09-05 | Hamilton | Texas | Pederson's Farms | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Overexertion in lifting-single episode |
An employee injured her back while lifting packaging film. | |||||
2015-08-07 | Hamilton | Texas | Pedersons Natural Farms | Leg(s) | Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c. |
An employee was operating a pallet jack and ran into a conveyer that fell on the injured employee's left leg. | |||||
2015-07-01 | Hamilton | New Jersey | PSE&G | BODY SYSTEMS | Stings and venomous bites |
An employee was stung by a bee and had an allergic reaction. | |||||
2015-06-15 | Hamilton | Ohio | AK Steel Corp | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee working in an airplane hanger from a 10' portable ladder fell and hit the ground, injuring his hip, wrist, and spine and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2015-05-27 | Hamilton | Mississippi | Layne Christensen | Lower leg(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee was removing a section of pipe when the wrench slipped and the employee fell backwards breaking his right leg just above the ankle. | |||||
2015-01-22 | Hamilton | Ohio | Thyssenkrupp Bilstein of America, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
Employee was unjamming a part from a company-made machine when the employee amputated a finger. |