| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-16 | Lock Haven | Pa | First Quality Tissue, LLC | Knee(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee slipped and fell on a wet spot of the floor created by condensation on overhead ductwork. The employee suffered a broken right patella and was admitted into the hospital. | |||||
| 2020-01-24 | Lock Haven | Pennsylvania | FIRST QUALITY TISSUE LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was clearing a jam in a lamination glue filter. The pneumatic ball valve actuated, catching the employee's left middle finger and amputating the fingertip. | |||||
| 2019-07-09 | Lock Haven | Pennsylvania | First Quality Tissue, LLC | Knee(s) and leg(s) | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
| A forklift operator and two spotters were removing a 600-pound pump from a paper machine's virgin pulper. The pump was being lifted by nylon straps, attached to the tines of the forklift, when it became stuck on a pipe flange. The pump disengaged from the housing and started to swing, striking one of the spotters twice in the right leg. The employee received a laceration to the right thigh and another to the right knee, and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-05-02 | Lock Haven | Pennsylvania | THE SYGMA NETWORK | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was exiting his truck to make a delivery. While he was walking down the truck's ramp he lost balance, fell off the ramp and broke his left hip. | |||||
| 2019-03-27 | Lock Haven | Pennsylvania | Harger Utility Contractors, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was using a vacuum to suction sand out from the bottom of an air filter bed used to filter fiberglass during paper production. The employee stepped down from a plywood plank being used as a temporary work platform; the employee's foot got caught between two dividers in the filter bed, causing the employee to fall. The employee suffered a torn anterior inferior tibiofibular ligament and was hospitalized, requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2019-03-26 | Lock Haven | Pennsylvania | VFP Fire Systems | Brain | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| A bundle of piping was being moved with a crane, with an employee holding onto the tagline to guide the bundle through an opening. A pipe was dislodged from the bundle and struck the employee in the forehead, knocking the employee unconscious and causing an open laceration and a small skull fracture above the eye. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-02-27 | Lock Haven | Pennsylvania | Weis Markets, Incorporated | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was walking in the back room to retrieve supplies for the deli. The employee tripped on a baler wire as it was being fed into the baler. The employee fell and suffered a fractured left hip. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-05-30 | Lock Haven | Pennsylvania | Somerset Steel Erection Company, Inc. | Leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was going back through and tightening bolts on the girt that was recently placed. While sitting on and tightening a girt, a bolt snapped causing the girt to slide down. The employee's left leg was pinched between the girt and beam. The employee was hospitalized with a leg fracture. | |||||
| 2015-04-07 | Lock Haven | Pennsylvania | First Quality Tissue, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was working on a line that manufactured two-ply paper towels in the converting area. While attempting to rethread a sheet to create the two-ply, he fingers got pinched between two rollers. He sustained a laceration of the third and fourth digits and a partial amputation of the distal tips; no digits were fully amputated. | |||||