Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-05-30 | Lyndhurst | New Jersey | Oldcastle APG/Anchor Concrete Products | Nonclassifiable | Struck by object or equipment |
An employee was struck by a steel board moving on a conveyor. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2020-05-05 | Lyndhurst | New Jersey | Hillside Cemetary | Multiple trunk locations | Excavation or trenching cave-in |
An employee was in a newly dug grave, measuring it, when its walls gave way and the employee was trapped. The employee suffered lower back and chest pain and was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-05-31 | Lyndhurst | New Jersey | Omega Plastics Corporation | Wrist(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
An employee was taping empty tubes on a bar when the bar started to rotate grabbing the tape and the employee's left arm. The employee suffered a broken left wrist. | |||||
2019-03-05 | Lyndhurst | New Jersey | Sigma Stretch Film of NJ | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was clearing a jam in a grinder. The machine started up and amputated four of the employee's fingers. | |||||
2017-07-13 | Lyndhurst | Ohio | Cleveland Clinic Lyndhurst Campus | Fingertip(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was chopping cilantro when the knife amputated her fingertip. | |||||
2016-08-27 | Lyndhurst | New Jersey | SIGMA STRETCH FILM | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was threading plastic through a winder machine and amputated the middle and ring fingers on the left hand. | |||||
2016-07-26 | Lyndhurst | New Jersey | Grand Supercenter Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was lowering a dock leveler to unload a truck when the dock leveler closed unexpectedly, breaking the employee's finger. | |||||
2016-07-05 | Lyndhurst | New Jersey | DALTILE CORPORATION | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee was walking alongside a forklift when the forklift turned and pinned the employee between it and the wall. He suffered abdominal pain and difficulty breathing, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2015-08-25 | Lyndhurst | New Jersey | Omega Plastics Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was cleaning the rubber plates on the printing press and crushed three fingers between the printing cylinders. The machine was running at the time and was not locked out. | |||||
2015-03-26 | Lyndhurst | New Jersey | Omega Plastics Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee's right index finger was crushed between printing press rollers. |