Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-09-27 | Golden Meadow | La | Superior Shipyard and Fabrication, Inc. | Head and trunk | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment 16 to 20 feet |
While an employee was using a gangway to access a barge, the gangway collapsed and the employee fell 18 feet to the dry dock floor below. The employee suffered multiple injuries, including punctured lungs and severe head trauma. | |||||
2021-05-27 | East Longmeadow | Ma | East Longmeadow Management Systems, Inc. | Brain | Fall on same level |
An employee was sanding an elevator door and fell striking their head on the elevator doorway. | |||||
2021-01-25 | New Meadows | Id | Tamarack Mill, LLC | Head and neck | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was operating a restacker machine. The employee accessed the outfeed area, immediately to the right of the yellow guardrail, and the hoist came down hitting the employee and pinning him to the floor. The employee was found unconscious having suffered head and neck injuries. | |||||
2020-09-05 | East Longmeadow | Ma | Cartamundi, LLC | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
While wrapping a bundle of board games on a pallet an employee jumped up to tap a box into position. The employee landed on their feet, but fell to the concrete floor and sustained a broken right femur and was hospitalized. | |||||
2020-02-14 | Rolling Meadows | Illinois | Public Storage, Inc. | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee slipped and fell on ice while walking toward a self-storage unit, suffering a broken femur. | |||||
2020-02-05 | Fresh Meadows | New York | Collins Building Services, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was on an A-frame ladder, changing a light ballast. The ballast broke free and hit his right eye, cutting it; he fell off the ladder and suffered a broken right leg. | |||||
2020-02-04 | Golden Meadow | Louisiana | Delmar Systems, Inc | Fingertip(s) | Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate |
An employee was returning to work from lunch. While talking to another employee on the other side of a closing access gate, the employee leaned against the gate before it completely stopped. His left hand was caught in the top roll bar of the gate, crushing the left fourth digit and requiring an amputation of the tip. | |||||
2019-07-19 | Golden Meadow | Louisiana | Tetra Technologies | Leg(s) | Fall onto or against object on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee was completing a fluid treatment process. The employee had just closed a 4-inch valve on a "T" manifold when he tripped and fell forward, striking the shin of his right leg against a valve handle and then landing on the ground. The employee's right leg sustained a spiral fracture requiring hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
2019-02-12 | East Longmeadow | Massachusett | U. S Postal Service | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was delivering mail on her route. While walking up to an address to deliver a parcel, she slipped and fell on accumulated snow and ice breaking an ankle. | |||||
2019-01-31 | Meadow Lands | Pennsylvania | IGS Industries, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was operating a punch press when his finger was caught in the press, resulting in an amputation to his left index finger. | |||||
2019-01-25 | Longmeadow | Massachusett | JEWISH NURSING HOME OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS, INC | Pelvis | Other fall to lower level |
On January 25, 2019, an employee was on a step ladder changing a lightbulb. The bulb dropped and as he tried to catch it, he lost balance and fell from the step ladder onto the floor. He was hospitalized with a broken pelvis. | |||||
2019-01-15 | Golden Meadow | Louisiana | Louisiana Machinery Company, LLC. | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was looking for a crescent wrench and dropped his flashlight. He reached for the falling flashlight and his hand contacted the fan blade of a running generator engine. The employee sustained an amputation to the right index fingertip and a laceration between the thumb and index finger on the right hand. | |||||
2018-07-10 | East Longmeadow | Massachusett | Irwin Industrial Tool Company | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was aligning a grinding wheel when the employee's right middle finger was pinched between the wheel and flywheel, resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
2018-06-26 | New Meadows | Idaho | Tamarak Mill, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
An employee's left middle fingertip was caught, crushed, and amputated by a stacker/rake machine. | |||||
2018-06-15 | East Longmeadow | Massachusett | Dynamic Dock & Door, Inc. | Thigh(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
An employee was attempting to remove a compressed spring and tension rod assembly from a dock leveler when the spring and tension rod came loose and struck the employee's left femur, breaking it and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2018-05-16 | Golden Meadow | Louisiana | Gulf Coast Tanks | Skull | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was putting nuts and washers on bolts while standing on an 8-foot A-frame ladder that was in the closed position when the ladder slipped. The employee fell and struck his head on the concrete below, suffering head trauma and a skull fracture. | |||||
2018-04-03 | Rolling Meadows | Illinois | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | Brain | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee lost his balance and fell, hitting his head. | |||||
2017-09-28 | East Longmeadow | Massachusett | A&R Logistics, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Struck by discharged object or substance |
An employee was opening a pipe cap on a pneumatic trailer to unload plastic pellets when the pipe cap and plastic pellets released under pressure and struck him. He suffered contusions and lacerations to the chest, arms, and legs. | |||||
2016-09-20 | Little Meadows | Pennsylvania | Patterson-UTI Drilling Company LLC | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
While tripping pipe on a derrick, an employee's left index finger was pinched between a metal beam and a driller collar, amputating the fingertip. | |||||
2016-06-23 | East Longmeadow | Massachusett | Big Y Foods, Inc. | Knee(s) | Fall, slip, trip |
On June 23, 2016, an employee was found unconscious on the ground and was hospitalized with a knee injury. | |||||
2016-06-15 | Longmeadow | Massachusett | Berkshire Rentals, Inc. | Thigh(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was removing tables from a truck when the pile of tables collapsed on the employee, breaking the left femur and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2016-05-30 | East Longmeadow | Massachusett | Suddekor LLC | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee's arm was pulled into nip rollers while working at a drying rack, requiring hospitalization for tissue damage. | |||||
2016-02-22 | Golden Meadow | Louisiana | EXPERT RISER SOLUTIONS | Ankle(s) | Entangled in other object or equipment |
An employee attached a tagline on some pipe casing. When the pipe was picked up, his foot was tangled in the tagline, ultimately breaking his ankle. | |||||
2016-02-22 | Golden Meadow | Louisiana | Cameron Solutions | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was loading a filter into a casing while a coworker pushed the other end. The employee's fingers were pinched and his right-hand index and middle fingertips were amputated. | |||||
2015-12-29 | Meadow | Texas | Meadow Farmers CO-OP Gin | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee slipped on the ice and fell fracturing the left hip. | |||||
2015-09-15 | New Meadows | Idaho | Tamarack Mill, LLC | Multiple head locations | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
An employee was checking lumber sizes in a "safe zone" about 18-20 ft from the board edger when a board broke while being processed. The wooden pieces were ejected, striking and injuring the employee 20 ft away. The employee sustained a broken nose, injuries to the face and loss of consciousness. | |||||
2015-08-13 | Meadow Bridge | West Virgini | Townsend Tree Service, LLC | Brain | Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet |
An employee climbed a tree and tied off during tree trimming activities. The employee cut a limb, which fell and broke the limb he was tied off onto. He fell approximately 40 feet to the ground, suffering a fractured skull, a blood spot on the brain, and fractured bones around his right ear. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2015-07-28 | Golden Meadow | Louisiana | Superior Shipyard and Fabrication, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee passed out due to heat illness. | |||||
2015-07-08 | Golden Meadow | Louisiana | WEEKS MARINE, INC. | Fingertip(s) | Entangled in other object or equipment |
An employee was handling deck lines when his left ring fingertip got caught in a bit of the rope. There was no bone loss. | |||||
2015-05-27 | Rolling Meadows | Illinois | Northrop Grumman | Ankle(s) | Nonclassifiable |
An employee injured the right ankle while exiting a stall in the restroom. The employee required surgery and hospitalization as a result. | |||||
2015-04-07 | East Longmeadow | Massachusett | LENOX | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
On or about April 8, 2015, an employee amputated the tip of his right index finger when reaching into a peen machine to clear a jam. His index finger got caught between the plastic and the blade. The machine was still running. Protective gloves were not worn at the time of the incident. |