Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-09-28 | Highspire | Pa | Plouse Machine Shop Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee slipped on grass near a break patio. He fell to the ground, broke his right fibula, and was hospitalized, requiring surgery. | |||||
2019-03-12 | Highspire | Pennsylvania | Homestat Farms | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was moving a 55-gallon drum of malt liquid weighing 655 pounds. The employee's right middle finger was caught between the drum and a frame, causing a partial fingertip amputation. | |||||
2018-07-03 | Highspire | Pennsylvania | Plouse Machine Shop Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee hand-fed parts into the mechanical power press. His arm was resting on the bolster plate when his right hand and fingers went underneath the light curtain at the front of the press. While either loading or unloading a part from the die, the press activated and the die then closed on his right index fingertip, resulting in a fingertip amputation down to the distal interphalangeal joint. |