Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-06-16 | Loganville | Ga | TOMCO Systems | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
Two employees were lifting a refrigeration unit's aluminum frame off a work table. The frame slid and pinched one employee's right middle fingertip against a bench. The last joint of the finger was amputated. | |||||
2020-07-06 | Logan Township | New Jersey | Amazon TEB 8 | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Overexertion in lifting-single episode |
An employee suffered back pain while lifting a box and collapsed. | |||||
2020-06-24 | Logan | Ohio | Shelly and Sands | Nonclassifiable | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in work zone |
An employee was working as a flagger on a highway project. While directing northbound traffic, he was struck by a motorist heading northbound. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2020-04-15 | Loganville | Georgia | Superior Industries, Inc. - Fesco Division | Elbow(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was using a metal grabber and overhead crane to assemble a chute out of various pieces of steel. The employee had positioned a sheet of steel in a vertical manner and then climbed onto an 8-foot step ladder to remove the metal grabber from the top of the sheet of steel. The metal grabber moved away from the employee, and the employee lost balance and fell to the floor, landing on the right side. The employee sustained a contusion to the right elbow. | |||||
2020-02-27 | Logan | West Virgini | Logan Regional Medical Center | Brain | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was moving furniture on a loading dock. The employee felt dizzy and fell backwards three feet off the loading dock to the ground. The employee sustained bleeding on the brain. | |||||
2019-09-19 | Logan | Ohio | Mennel Milling | Multiple body parts | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee tripped over fixed equipment, falling to the floor and striking the equipment. His face and shoulder were injured, and he was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-05-06 | Loganton | Pennsylvania | Nicholas Meat, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
On May 6, 2019, at approximately 7:00 AM, an employee was pulling bones from a conveyor and stacking them on the table of a bandsaw. The employee turned to retrieve more bones and his left pinky finger struck the running saw blade causing a partial amputation. | |||||
2019-05-06 | Logan Township | New Jersey | Capstone Logistics | Ankle(s) and leg(s) | Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object |
An employee loaded pallets onto a pallet jack. When he started moving the jack his leg was pinned between the pallet jack and a cinder block wall. The employee sustained a fracture to the lower leg and ankle, and a laceration to the heel. | |||||
2019-01-29 | Logan | Ohio | U.S. Postal Service | Lower leg(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was delivering mail on a rural route and fell on an icy surface after exiting the car. The employee sustained a fracture to the lower left leg. | |||||
2019-01-17 | Logan | West Virgini | LOWE'S HOME CENTERS INC. | Foot (feet) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee was walking next to a forklift being operated by another employee. When the employee stopped walking, the forklift struck and injured the employee's foot. | |||||
2018-09-25 | Loganville | Georgia | Publix Super Markets, Inc. | Elbow(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was overseeing the changing out of product on the end of aisles after store closing. She was walking on the sales floor when she slipped and fell in the front speedway, falling to the ground and breaking her right elbow. | |||||
2018-08-02 | Logan Township | New Jersey | Penske Logistics | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
A temporary employee was placing baking racks into a row when a cart hit her from behind and caused her to fall, fracturing her femur. | |||||
2018-05-15 | Loganton | Pennsylvania | Nicholas Meat, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee's fingers were inside a machine when a second employee activated the two-hand controls, powering the machine's hock cutter. The hock cutter then amputated the employee's fingers. | |||||
2018-02-13 | Loganville | Georgia | Quik'n Tasty Foods, Inc | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was taking trash to the dumpster. The wind caught the dumpster door and pinched the employee's finger resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
2016-08-01 | Loganville | Georgia | Superior Industries, Inc. - Fesco Division | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was tack welding with an automatic MIG welder. The employee was holding the steel part with one hand and engaged the pneumatic clamp with the other hand. The clamp smashed and amputated his left middle finger. | |||||
2016-04-28 | Logan | Ohio | Amanda Manufacturing | Foot (feet) | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee had just parked and exited his forklift to look for parts. When he stepped out from behind his forklift, an oncoming forklift ran over and crushed his right foot. | |||||
2016-04-15 | Loganton | Pennsylvania | Nicholas Meat, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
At approximately 11:00 AM on April 15, 2016, an employee was cutting cow bones using a band saw. The employee's right hand came into contact with the band saw, amputating the right pinky finger just below the first joint (distal phalanx). | |||||
2015-11-13 | Loganville | Georgia | ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR INCORPORATED (E.C.I) | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee fell from a 10-foot fiberglass A-frame ladder while setting up to drill a hole in the wall. The employee suffered a concussion, thoracic sprain, lumbar sprain, laceration to the face and forehead, nasal bone fracture, and two broken wrists. | |||||
2015-11-04 | Logan | Ohio | The Logan Clay Products Co. | Leg(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
An employee's leg was injured after side swiping a barrier guard while riding in a golf cart. | |||||
2015-07-31 | Loganville | Georgia | Donan Engineering | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
An employee fell 13 feet, 6 inches, to the ground while inspecting a roof. The employee cracked several ribs and was hospitalized. | |||||
2015-02-04 | Logan | Ohio | Amanda Manufacturing Incorporated | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
At approximately 3:45 PM on 3/4/15, an employee was operating a pneumatic assembly fixture with two handed controls. The fixture's drive cylinder pinched off the tip of his left ring finger. The cylinder pulled off half the employee's fingernail and tissue, leaving the bone. | |||||
2015-01-29 | Logan Township | New Jersey | Rehig Pacific Company | Ankle(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
An employee was sweeping the facility when a stack of pallets fell and broke the employee's ankle. | |||||
2015-01-27 | Logan Township | New Jersey | Qualawash Holdings, LLC. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
Employee lost a fingertip in the closing lid of an internal valve when removing the trailer's internal valve. |