| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-03 | Indianapolis | In | United States Postal Service | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was dumping mail from an all-purpose container onto a culling belt. The employee was reaching with their right hand to remove a package stuck in the container while their left hand was on the bar that holds the container in place when it's turned upright to dump the contents. The container shifted and crushed the employee's left middle finger between the bar and metal frame of the container, resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2020-09-10 | Indiana | Pa | Diversified Gas & Oil | Wrist(s) and arm(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| While working in a crane truck, an employee lost balance and fell out of the bed of the truck, suffering injuries to the wrist and arms that required surgery. | |||||
| 2019-08-22 | Indiana | Pennsylvania | Urban Outfitters | Skull | Fall on same level |
| An employee had been moving materials and was found laying on their stomach on the floor with a fractured skull and laceration requiring 2 staples. It is believed that the employee had a seizure and fell striking their head on a lag bolt that holds a guardrail in place on the concrete. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-08-08 | Indiana | Pennsylvania | Specialty Tires of America, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was using a clam-shaped curing press to vulcanize tires. The employee had to hold a tire in the press as a bladder inflated. The employee's right hand got stuck between the tire and the bladder; the curing press cycled while the employee's hand was stuck, causing open fractures to the middle and ring fingers. | |||||
| 2018-07-10 | Indiana | Pennsylvania | Indiana Regional Medical Center | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping |
| An employee tripped and fell while leaving his car in the workplace parking lot. He suffered a fractured right hip and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-10-03 | Indiana | Pennsylvania | Charles Gerthoffer Masonry Contractors | Arm(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was using a gas-powered cut-off saw when it cut the employee's arm near the elbow, requiring overnight hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-01-08 | Indianapolis | Indiana | U.S. POSTAL SERVICE | Elbow(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee fell while climbing truck steps to close the trailer door, suffering a broken left elbow. The steps were slick and icy at the time. | |||||
| 2016-08-11 | Indianapolis | Indiana | U.S. Postal Service | Hand(s) | Other animal bites, nonvenomous |
| An employee's right hand was bitten by a dog while delivering mail to a resident's door, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2016-02-28 | Indianapolis | Indiana | U.S. Postal Service | Nonclassifiable | Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate |
| An employee suffered an amputation injury while closing a door. | |||||
| 2016-01-28 | Indiana | Pennsylvania | Penn Mechanical Group | Lower leg(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee slipped on ice and broke his right tibia and fibula. | |||||
| 2015-10-23 | Indianapolis | Indiana | U.S. POSTAL SERVICE | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
| An employee was lowering a mail truck door when their gloved finger was caught in the fold of the door, resulting in a partial amputation of their right middle ring finger just below the finger nail. | |||||
| 2015-09-01 | Indiana | Pennsylvania | Wilson Excavating and Grading, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was installing water lines for PA American Water when he experienced dehydration from the heat, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2015-07-10 | Indiana | Pennsylvania | Indiana Printing & Publishing Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee's fingers were caught between the trimmer and stacker resulting in injuries that led to hospitalization and surgery to repair his injured right ring and pinky fingers. | |||||
| 2015-06-18 | Indiana | Pennsylvania | SPECIALITY TIRES OF AMERICA | Upper arm(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
| An employee suffered a broken forearm while changing a coil on a tire machine. | |||||
| 2015-05-11 | Indiana | Pennsylvania | Schroth Lumber Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee severed his left little fingertip while clearing a wooden block from a horizontal drilling machine. | |||||
| 2015-04-25 | Indianapolis | Indiana | U.S. Postal Service | Fingertip(s) | Other animal bites, nonvenomous |
| An employee's fingertip was bitten off by a Pitbull while the employee was delivering mail on a walking mail route. | |||||