Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2016-04-21 | Orrtanna | Pennsylvania | Edwin L. Heim Company | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was threading some 3-inch conduit when he identified burrs that needed removal. He was using his channel locks to get rid of the burrs when the channel locks grabbed and pulled his left hand into the machine. The fingertip of his left pinky finger was surgically amputated above the fingernail. | |||||
2016-03-09 | Orrtanna | Pennsylvania | Penn Line Corporation, Inc. | Arm(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was removing a tree limb with a chainsaw when the chainsaw kicked up and cut his left arm, requiring surgery | |||||
2015-01-08 | Orrtanna | Pennsylvania | Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc. - Orrtanna Faciltiy | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
On or about January 8, 2014, at 10:40 p.m., an employee was hospitalized for burns after cleaning the juice processing tank. He was burned on his forehead, abdomen, hands, thighs, and ankles when hot steam blew out of the tank, struck him, and forced him off the 8-foot ladder that he was using to perform his daily task. |