| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-13 | Johnstown | Oh | New Day Farms | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| On November 13, 2021, at 1:15 PM, an employee was preparing to clean the inedible conveyance system and suffered the amputation of their left middle fingertip. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time. | |||||
| 2021-10-19 | Johnstown | Oh | Anomatic Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was adjusting part placement on a machine. The press head actuated and pinched the employee's left thumb, causing a laceration and amputation to the tip. | |||||
| 2021-07-29 | Johnstown | Pa | Laurel Motors Inc. | Pelvis | Struck by powered vehicle-nontransport, n.e.c. |
| An employee was on their knees with their upper body in a car while attempting to connect scanning equipment to an engine control module. The car went into drive and lurched forward. The driver's door struck a post and pinned the employee between the door and doorframe, resulting in a broken pelvis. | |||||
| 2021-06-20 | Johnstown | Oh | Daybreak Foods, Inc. | Upper arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning off a manure belt when the belt grabbed onto his hand, resulting in an amputation of the right arm above the elbow. | |||||
| 2021-05-14 | Johnstown | Pa | AmeriServ Financial, Inc. | Arm(s) | Fall on same level |
| An employee fell in an elevator, landing on the floor and suffering a compound fracture of the right arm. | |||||
| 2021-04-22 | Johnstown | Pa | Highway Equipment Company | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was working on a piece of machinery. The employee was knocked off the equipment and lost consciousness. The employee was hospitalized for brain swelling and surgery. | |||||
| 2021-01-20 | Johnstown | Oh | Heartland Hospice | Leg(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee slipped and fell on ice in a driveway. The employee's leg was broken in two places, requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2020-06-25 | Johnstown | Colorado | High Country Beverage | Foot (feet) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| An employee was operating a pallet jack. The tine of a forklift struck the employee, breaking the employee's left foot | |||||
| 2020-01-22 | Johnstown | Pennsylvania | DLP Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center | Brain | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| A shuttle bus driver was placing safety cones around a bus in a parking lot. He slipped on ice, fell backwards to the ground, and hit his head, suffering an abrasion and a hemorrhage. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-07-21 | Johnstown | Colorado | Reliance Oilfield Services LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| A wireline operator was rebuilding a hydraulic setting tool. He finished rebuilding the bottom section of the tool and noticed it was partially stroked out. He went to use the weight of the setting sleeve to finish stroking the tool vertically. His finger was in the hole at the end of the setting sleeve and when he hit the ground with the tool, it stroked and amputated his right ring fingertip. | |||||
| 2019-06-10 | Johnstown | Colorado | Mundt Energy Services LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was reinserting a burner tube into a separator when his left index finger was caught between the tube and separator, amputation the top half-inch of his finger. | |||||
| 2019-05-16 | Johnstown | Colorado | Mundt Energy Services LLC | Hip(s) and leg(s) | Struck, caught, or crushed in other collapsing structure or equipment |
| Two employees were welding pipe when the 9x9 steel welding hut blew over due to a microburst. One employee was hospitalized for a fractured leg and hip. | |||||
| 2019-01-14 | Johnstown | Pennsylvania | Conemaugh Health Systems | Arm(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was bringing in equipment to complete a case. The employee tripped over a cord attached to a piece of equipment and fell to the floor. The employee sustained a fractured right arm requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2018-07-01 | Johnstown | New York | FAGE USA DAIRY INDUSTRY, INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was performing maintenance on the multi-port valve in a process line. While he was rebuilding the valve (the valve was out of the valve body), the solenoid was activated. The airline blew off the valve and the valve closed on his left pinky finger, amputating it. | |||||
| 2018-05-23 | Johnstown | Ohio | Trillium Farm Holdings LLc | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was attempting to hitch a box trailer to a pickup truck. As the employee was aligning the ball with the trailer hitch, their fingers were inside the hitch. When the ball aligned with the hitch the fingers were pinched resulting in amputation of the left middle fingertip. The fingertip was reattached at a medical treatment facility. | |||||
| 2018-05-23 | Johnstown | Ohio | Trillium Farm Holdings LLc | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was transferring young chickens from a cage onto a cart. The employee lost balance and slipped from the access step falling backwards about 22 inches against a metal railing. The employee was hospitalized for a rib injury and possible pneumothorax. | |||||
| 2018-03-15 | Johnstown | Pennsylvania | Inframark | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee slipped on ice outdoors and broke his ankle. | |||||
| 2018-03-10 | Johnstown | Colorado | TA Operating LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to other harmful substances |
| An employee was prepping food when she had an allergic reaction and experienced difficulty breathing, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2018-02-24 | Johnstown | Colorado | KLX Energy Services LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was setting a packer on a flatbed trailer to connect and thread the pipe when the employee's hand slipped and the pipe fell on it, trapping a finger between the pipe and the edge of the trailer. The employee sustained a right ring finger amputation. | |||||
| 2017-08-31 | Johnstown | Pennsylvania | Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was making a bed. As she was moving around the bed, her foot became caught around the cord for a fetal monitoring machine. She fell and fractured her left femur. | |||||
| 2017-05-01 | Johnstown | New York | Walmart DC 6096 | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping |
| At approximately 12:45 p.m. on 5/1/17, an employee was holding a case of liquid shortening weighing approximately 20 pounds and was twisting to set it on an order picker when he tripped and fell to the floor, fracturing his right hip. | |||||
| 2017-04-27 | Johnstown | Pennsylvania | JWF Industries | Nonclassifiable | Nonclassifiable |
| An employee was performing chemical titration just before he was found lying unresponsive. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-02-24 | Johnstown | Pennsylvania | Artutus Park Manor | Wrist(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee slipped on a wet floor while she was mopping it and fell breaking her right wrist. | |||||
| 2017-02-15 | Johnstown | Ohio | Apeks, LLC | Multiple face locations | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| On February 15, 2017, an employee was performing a leak check on a stainless steel vessel. A nut had become stripped, allowing a bolt to fly off and hit the employee in the nose and forehead. The employee was hospitalized with lacerations, a broken nose, and a broken eye socket. | |||||
| 2016-09-23 | Johnstown | Pennsylvania | HRI Inc. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was removing material in the bed of a dump truck. While using the access ladder to descend from the dump truck, the employee fell approximately 5 feet, fracturing both wrists and one vertebra. The employee required surgery. | |||||
| 2016-09-01 | Johnstown | Colorado | L&L Acoustical | Leg(s) | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was hanging drywall when planking from the scaffold attached to the wall gave way. The employee fell approximately 10 feet and broke both legs. | |||||
| 2016-08-28 | Johnstown | Colorado | Visions Express Inc | Wrist(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was gauging a crude oil tank through a thief hatch and may have been exposed to vapors from the tank or oxygen depletion. The employee became ill and fell down the stairs breaking the right wrist. | |||||
| 2016-08-17 | Johnstown | Colorado | LeFors Energy Services, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| On 8/17/16, an employee was helping to remove swabbing tools from an oil well when the swab lubricator pipe fell onto his hands, amputating his right thumb and injuring his left thumb and pinky finger. | |||||
| 2016-08-10 | Johnstown | Ohio | Tech International | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was attempting to pull a long piece of material through a rotary cutter when two of his fingers were caught in the machine. His right index and ring fingertips were amputated. | |||||
| 2016-08-05 | Johnstown | Colorado | Magna Energy Services, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| An employee was performing tank gauging on a produced water tank. After opening the tank's thief hatch, the employee was exposed to hydrogen sulfide, suffering headaches and nausea. | |||||
| 2016-08-03 | Johnstown | Pennsylvania | PA Army National Guard | Foot(feet) and leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by aircraft or propeller |
| An employee was ground handling a helicopter on the aircraft flight line. He was walking beside the helicopter when the helicopter wheel rolled over his left foot, ankle, and lower leg, causing compound fractures to his tibia and breaking bones in his foot. He was hospitalized and required surgery. | |||||
| 2016-06-27 | Johnstown | Pennsylvania | JWF Industries | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
| On 6/27/16, at approximately 11 a.m., an employee was walking upstairs on the way to clean the bathroom when he passed out and hit his head on the concrete floor possibly due to overheating. He was hospitalized with a concussion. | |||||
| 2016-04-12 | Johnstown | Ohio | ODW Logistics | Nonclassifiable | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area |
| An employee was walking out of the parking lot through a man door when he was struck by a yard truck. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2016-03-31 | Johnstown | Colorado | Northern Colorado Concrete | Leg(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| The employee was placing a concrete blanket over the newly poured concrete. The wind picked up the blanket causing the employee to fall and break his left leg. | |||||
| 2016-02-21 | Johnstown | Ohio | Trillium Farm Holdings, LLC | Head and trunk | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| On or about February 21, 2016, an employee fell approximately 2 feet from a feed trough and sustained head and back injuries. | |||||
| 2016-02-16 | Johnstown | Pennsylvania | W.C. McQuaide Inc. | Hip(s) | Fall, slip, trip |
| An employee was getting out of a vehicle and slipped on ice injuring his left hip. | |||||
| 2016-01-29 | Johnstown | Pennsylvania | American National Red Cross | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
| One employee was hospitalized after falling off a ramp at the loading dock. | |||||
| 2015-12-09 | Johnstown | Pennsylvania | PA Army National Guard | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was installing a ballistic windshield on an armed security vehicle. The employee was working from a ladder, which fell out from under him. The windshield, weighing approximately 60 pounds, fell on top of him and injured his spine. | |||||
| 2015-11-06 | Johnstown | Pennsylvania | Johnstown Wire Technologies | Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was working on a crane that was out of service. He went and got a ladder and put the ladder on the spreader bar of the crane. He climbed about 8 to 10 feet up the ladder when it slipped out from under him. He fell and broke his right shoulder. | |||||
| 2015-09-30 | Johnstown | Colorado | Bayou Well Services | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was using elevators to latch pipe. While pulling the elevators back to latch another joint of pipe from the trailer, his fingertip got caught between the horn and bale. He sustained a right index fingertip avulsion. | |||||
| 2015-09-22 | Johnstown | Pennsylvania | Quaker Sales Corporation | Face | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was pumping hot (310 degrees F) liquid asphalt into a tar kettle and was burned on his face. | |||||
| 2015-04-16 | Johnstown | Pennsylvania | GALLIKER DAIRY COMPANY | Forearm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee reached into a trim press to clear a jam and suffered a fracture to left forearm. The employee was hospitalized and underwent surgery to repair the fracture. | |||||
| 2015-03-06 | Johnstown | Ohio | TP Mechanical Contractors | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| An employee was welding black iron pipe for stem lines at the new Limited Brands facility under construction in Johnstown, Ohio. The employee left work early due to an extreme headache. He was taken to the hospital where he was diagnosed with carbon monoxide intoxication. | |||||