Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-06-30 | Madawaska | Maine | Madtown Logging and Firewood | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was using a log processor to cut a log. He tried to support a cut piece of log with his hand when the weight of the log pushed his hand into the log splitter's blade, resulting in the amputation of his left hand at the wrist. | |||||
2015-03-27 | Madawaska | Maine | Twin Rivers Paper Company | Nonclassifiable | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
On or about 03/27/2015, an employee was hospitalized with injuries sustained from getting caught between a brake and reel while pushing an empty paper spool. | |||||
2015-01-10 | Madawaska | Maine | Twin Rivers Paper Company | Fingernail(s), nailbed(s) | Struck against object or equipment |
Employee was pulling shavings on a winder at the trim chute and contacted the trim slitter suffering an angled cut to the nail bed and tip of the right index finger. |