Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-11-11 | Leola | Pa | 3B Services, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Fall, slip, trip |
An employee was removing bolts from a boiler door. The employee fell to the ground, suffering a chipped bone in the elbow as well as a possible triceps injury and a possible concussion. | |||||
2021-10-25 | Leola | Pa | Dart Container Corporation of Pennsylvania | Ankle(s) | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee was adjusting pallets in a trailer. A forklift moved forward, pinning the employee's right leg above the ankle against the pallets. The employee suffered a laceration and fracture to the ankle. | |||||
2021-08-26 | Leola | Ar | H G Toler & Son Lumber Co | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was repairing a flat tire on a forklift when he began to experience heat-related illnesses and later passed out. He was hospitalized for heat exhaustion. | |||||
2021-04-29 | Leola | Pa | Dart Container Corporation of Pennsylvania | Leg(s) | Fall, slip, trip |
An employee had been walking toward a conveyor. The employee fell and sustained a broken leg. | |||||
2021-04-19 | Leola | Pa | Dart Container Corporation of Pennsylvania | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was troubleshooting a sheet alignment issue on a trim press. The employee's glove was caught on a spline shaft, and the employee's left thumb was injured. The employee was hospitalized and the thumb was amputated. | |||||
2020-07-08 | Leola | Pennsylvania | L&S Sweeteners | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was running a 50-pound bag of sugar through a bag sealer while attempting to correct a problem with the machine. His left index finger was caught in the machine's drive pulleys, and the fingertip was medically amputated. The machine was not guarded at the time of the incident. | |||||
2020-03-14 | Leola | Pennsylvania | L & S SWEETENERS | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee fell while climbing a rack, landing on a pallet about 4 feet below and suffering a broken and dislocated left hip. | |||||
2020-01-14 | Leola | Pennsylvania | H.M. Stauffer & Sons, Inc. | Pelvis | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
A roof truss had stopped moving at the location where the finished trusses come out of the building and go into the finish press. An employee went into the approximately 2-foot wide gap between the wall and the finish press to push the truss into the press. The press engaged, and the truss hit the employee. The employee sustained a hair-line fracture of the pelvis, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2019-06-24 | Leola | Arkansas | ENTERGY CORPORATION | Multiple body parts | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
An employee was performing a repair on a downed utility line. The utility line arced and caused third-degree electrical burns to his left arm and left side of the back. | |||||
2019-05-30 | Leola | Pennsylvania | Skyline Champion Home Builders, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was walking around the plant doing inventory when a 200-pound load lift bar that was leaning against a wall fell onto his right calf, requiring several stitches. | |||||
2019-04-25 | Leola | Arkansas | H.G. TOLER AND SON LUMBER COMPANY, INC | Arm(s) | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
An employee was performing maintenance on an edger when other maintenance employees dropped a collar. The employee went to pick it up and was struck in the arm by a log kicker, suffering right arm fractures. | |||||
2019-01-28 | Leola | South Dakota | AgTegra Cooperative | Brain | Fall on same level due to tripping |
An employee was fixing a frozen sump pump drain. As the employee was walking up two steps, the employee slipped and fell. The employee suffered two brain bleeds and a contusion to the back of the employee's head. | |||||
2018-07-10 | Leola | Pennsylvania | Hommett Corporation | Upper and lower limb(s) | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
An employee was on the roof securing plastic when he went to step off the roof and onto a catwalk. The catwalk was not in place and he fell approximately 13 feet to the floor, suffering a dislocated and fractured left elbow as well as a broken left ankle. | |||||
2018-06-25 | Leola | Pennsylvania | Hommett Corporation | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was climbing down an 8-foot ladder when an air hose became caught. While trying to free it, he fell from the ladder to the floor, suffering several broken vertebrae. | |||||
2018-06-05 | Leola | Pennsylvania | L&S Sweeteners | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was checking a water filter and was doused with 180 degree water causing burns to both thighs and knees and the right side of the abdomen. | |||||
2017-07-18 | Leola | Arkansas | West Frazier | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was changing out a cutter head on a planer and was using a lifting device to hoist the 100-pound blades from the machine. The lifting device has an adjustable balance so the blades can be tilted as they are removed from the machine. As the employee was removing the blades, his left hand was on the hoist between the collar and the end plate. The collar slid back toward the end plate, pinching and crushing his index finger between the collar and end plate. His index fingertip had to be | |||||
2016-09-22 | Leola | Pennsylvania | H M Stauffer and Sons | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee stepped off a forklift onto a 4x4 wood block used for spacing trusses, which rolled his ankle and cracked the base of the tibia on his right foot. He was hospitalized for surgery. | |||||
2016-07-08 | Leola | Pennsylvania | Dart Container | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
While reloading the stock on the plastic film winding machine, an employee's hands were caught in the in-going nip point, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2016-04-14 | Leola | Pennsylvania | Dart Container Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was replacing heat tape on the head of a plastic film bagger when the machine head cycled and pinched his left hand, partially amputating his third and fourth fingertips. | |||||
2016-01-25 | Leola | Arkansas | West Fraser Leola | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee slipped and fell in the parking lot while going to work, fracturing the neck of the right femur. | |||||
2015-11-09 | Leola | Pennsylvania | Fisher and Thompson, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling part of powered vehicle still attached |
An employee pulled the chain to lower the lift gate on a truck about to be unloaded. The gate caught his finger, partially amputating the side of his left third digit. | |||||
2015-10-22 | Leola | Pennsylvania | Skyline Homes | Lumbar region | Bending, crawling, reaching, twisting-single episode |
An employee was bending over to inspect a modular home and suffered a lower back sprain. | |||||
2015-04-28 | Leola | Pennsylvania | H.M. Stauffer & Son, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
On 4/28/15 at approximately 6:30am a forklift operator was traveling in reverse down a ramp when he struck and ran over another employee . | |||||
2015-04-15 | Leola | Pennsylvania | H.M. Stauffer & Son, Inc. | Multiple trunk locations | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
On or about April 15, 2015, at 3:30 p.m., an employee climbed up on a 4-foot railing to cut the banding off of a bundle of lumber when he slipped and fell on his back. He sustained five broken ribs and five cracked vertebrae. |