Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2019-08-02 | New Brighton | Pennsylvania | Valley Waste Service | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was hooking the latch from a truck to a dumpster. The truck's lifting lever was engaged, and the employee suffered a partial thumb amputation in the pinch point. | |||||
2017-07-13 | New Brighton | Pennsylvania | Col-Fin Specialty Steel II Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was pulling wire through a die on a draw block machine when the employee's left ring finger was caught and amputated between the machine's jaws and the drum. | |||||
2017-04-27 | New Brighton | Pennsylvania | Damascus Steel Casting Company | Nonclassifiable | Explosion, n.e.c. |
An employee was melting steel in a furnace when the molten steel contacted piping carrying circulating water and caused an explosion. The employee was burned by steam and molten metal and was hospitalized. |