| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-12 | Mercersburg | Pa | Delamor Enterprises, LP | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was taking sales orders and walking from the back of the building when they tripped over an empty bun tray and fell to the ground, resulting in a displaced left femoral neck fracture. | |||||
| 2021-01-22 | Mercersburg | Pa | WHITETAIL OPERATING COMPANY | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Injury by other person-unintentional or intent unknown, n.e.c. |
| An employee collided with another skier and sustained four broken ribs. | |||||
| 2020-07-16 | Mercer | Pennsylvania | Mercer Forge Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was removing tooling components from a 2,000-ton trim press. He was using a ratchet to loosen the bottom bolts to secure the tooling. The weight of the upper portion of the tooling was secured by a 2 x 2 block of wood. This block failed, allowing the top portion to contact the employee's hand and crush his left middle finger. He was hospitalized for surgery. | |||||
| 2019-01-09 | Mercer | Pennsylvania | Davey Tree Expert Co. | Brain | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
| An employee working as a climber was removing a storm damaged tree that fell on a communication line. The employee was tied to an adjacent tree and the communication line was secured to keep it from snapping back. The climber started making small cuts on the tree to release tension slowly. On the final cut, the communication line released suddenly and struck the employee in the face. The employee was hospitalized with facial contusions, a swollen left hand, and a concussion. | |||||
| 2018-02-05 | Mercer | Pennsylvania | ADESA, Inc. | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was cleaning the inside of a car. As he was exiting the vehicle, his foot became stuck on the door and he fell outside of the vehicle to the concrete, suffering a spinal injury and paralysis that required hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
| 2016-08-08 | Mercer | Pennsylvania | Miller Industries, Inc. Mercer | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On 8/8/16, an employee was cutting metal on a shear. The employee's gloved hands became caught in the metal hold-down pads that push the metal into the shear. The employee suffered a right-hand middle fingertip amputation, as well as left-hand middle and index fingertip amputations. | |||||
| 2015-07-10 | Mercer | Pennsylvania | Auto Dealers Exchange Services of America, Inc. | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee fell backwards off of a ladder while removing labels and decals from the back of a truck and suffered a head injury. | |||||
| 2015-04-27 | Mercer | Pennsylvania | Waste Management of PA, Inc. | Forearm(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker |
| At a residential garbage pick up location, an employee was picking up a toilet to place into a Waste Management Bagster Dumpster Bag tote. The toilet hit the side of the tote and fell from the employees hands. The employee was cut on the right forearm by pieces of the broken toilet. The employee was hospitalized overnight for surgery to repair the cut and muscles damaged by the laceration. | |||||
| 2015-02-16 | Mercer | Pennsylvania | Ergon Trucking, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate |
| Employee was attempting to close a manually propelled gate associated with a fence system. The conditions were cold and icy. The weather conditions were making it difficult for him to close the gate. The employee had to get extra leverage on the gate to get it closed. He reached up around/near the gate's rollers as he applied extra leverage to the gate with his body. The gate suddenly gave way and the employee's finger became trapped in a pinch point created by the gate's roller and the hor | |||||