Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-01-18 | Millinocket | Me | Pelletier Manufacturing Inc. | Brain | Struck by object or equipment |
A log broke through the window of a crane, hitting the operator in the head. The operator suffered severe head trauma. | |||||
2018-01-09 | Millinocket | Maine | GERALD PELLETIER, INC. | Hip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was removing a boom from a de-limber machine when another employee inadvertently hit the controls to squeeze the machine's grab arm together. The employee was caught in the grab arm and suffered a broken hip. | |||||
2018-01-08 | Millinocket | Maine | Dead River Company | Nonclassifiable | Explosion of nonpressurized vapors, gases, or liquids |
An employee was servicing a propane truck in a garage when a leak from the truck ignited and caused an explosion. The employee was burned severely and hospitalized. | |||||
2016-07-01 | Millinocket | Maine | Tolman Construction | Multiple body parts | Explosion of nonpressurized vapors, gases, or liquids |
An employee was transferring diesel fuel from the middle tank of a fuel truck to the forward tank using a barrel pump when a fire/explosion occurred. The fire/explosion threw the employee off the tanker to the ground and ignited his clothing, causing second and third degree burns to his body and arms. |