Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-01-29 | Jonestown | Pa | SUPREME MID-ATLANTIC CORPORATION | Fingertip(s) | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
An employee was preparing to install the horizontal track for an overhead door inside a refrigerated truck while working from a 4-foot platform ladder. The safety screw that maintains the pre-spring-loaded overhead door in the down position had been removed and the door was ejected from the vertical door track. As the door moved upward, the employee's left index finger was caught between two panel sections resulting in the removed of skin from the fingertip. | |||||
2020-10-09 | Jonestown | Pa | Love's Travel Stops and Country Stores | Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment less than 6 feet |
An employee was on the third rung from the top of a 6-foot-high ladder, putting a wooden pallet into an open dumpster. The employee fell from the ladder to the ground, suffering a broken right shoulder and a bruised right hip. | |||||
2020-08-07 | Jonestown | Pa | Supreme Mid-Atlantic Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An assembler was using a cordless drill with a 3/8" bit to drill through a fiberglass reinforced panel on a truck when the drill bit went through the steel wall of the truck cab and grabbed onto his glove. The right index fingertip was amputated. | |||||
2019-06-30 | Jonestown | Pennsylvania | Mastromardi Produce | Hip(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee was manually wrapping a pallet when the wrap broke. He lost his balance and fell to the floor, injuring his left hip. | |||||
2019-01-10 | Jonestown | Pennsylvania | Elwood Staffing Services Inc | Foot (feet) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
An temporary employee 's foot was run over by a forklift, fracturing it and requiring surgery and hospitalization. | |||||
2018-07-26 | Jonestown | Mississippi | Cottonseed Co-Op Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
On 7/26/2018, an employee's finger was caught in an auger, resulting in a right middle finger amputation at the first digit. On 7/28/2018, an employee's fingers were caught in a belt and pulley powered by an electric motor, resulting in an amputation of the left index and middle fingers at the second knuckle. This record contains two separate events that were reported simultaneously to OSHA by the employer. These events are captured as one report. | |||||
2018-05-30 | Jonestown | Pennsylvania | Supreme Mid-Atlantic Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate |
An employee was entering the paint booth and was closing the door when the negative pressure of the paint booth caused the door to close quickly catching the employee's left ring finger and amputating the fingertip. | |||||
2017-08-25 | Jonestown | Mississippi | Cotton Co-Op Corp. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
On 8/25/2017, an employee was using a wooden stick to unclog a de-seeding machine's blade drum when the rotating blade grabbed the stick and caused the employee's hand to strike the rotating blades. The blade cut all of his left-hand fingers, and several had to be surgically amputated. | |||||
2016-02-24 | Jonestown | Pennsylvania | Tyco Electronics Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee's fingertip was amputated while clearing a jammed production part from an assembly machine. | |||||
2015-06-02 | Jonestown | Pennsylvania | SUPREME MID-ATLANTIC CORPORATION | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was working on a trailer door and pinched the end of his finger in between two of the panels of the trailer door, amputating the tip of his right ring finger. The employee took the clamp off the track before attaching a horizontal bracket. After removing the bracket the employee was unable to hold the door while trying to retrieve a ladder. |