| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-23 | Pottsville | Pa | Ashley Furniture Industries LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| A maintenance employee was attempting to unclog a bag sealer when his left index finger was caught between the heating element and clamp device, resulting in a partial amputation of the fingertip. | |||||
| 2021-08-07 | Pottsville | Pa | Wegman's Food Markets | Lower leg(s) | Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle |
| An employee was operating a ride-on pallet jack when it collided with a metal storage rack. The employee suffered a broken right tibia and fibula. | |||||
| 2021-06-01 | Pottsville | Pa | Lowe's Home Centers, LLC | Leg(s) | Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c. |
| An employee was operating a reach truck in the reverse position and lowering the forks. The truck struck a wood pallet, a piece of which broke off. The employee's right leg was pinned between the piece of wood and the truck's cab. The leg was broken, and the employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-02-21 | Scottsville | Tx | General Cable Industries, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was removing aluminum stuck in a cable stripping machine that had just been turned off. A still spinning blade in the machine pulled in the aluminum and the employee's right index finger. The fingertip was amputated, with the loss of the nail bed. | |||||
| 2021-01-09 | Pottsville | Pa | Lowe's Home Centers, LLC | Ankle(s) | Nonroadway incident involving motorized land vehicle |
| An employee was driving a stand-up forklift when he suffered an injury to his left ankle. | |||||
| 2020-10-01 | Pottsville | Pa | Walmart Stores, Inc. | Foot (feet) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee's right foot was caught between a powered industrial truck and a curb at the receiving dock. The foot was injured, requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2020-06-16 | Pottsville | Pennsylvania | Northeast Prestressed Products LLC | Forearm(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
| On June 16, 2020, at approximately 5:00 PM, an employee reached to use controls to lower a hydraulic part of a trailer. The truck was on a hill and the unmovable part of the trailer moved and pinched his forearm against a concrete beam. He was hospitalized with injury to the right forearm. | |||||
| 2019-08-22 | Scottsville | Texas | Prysmian General Cable | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was handling and assembling extruding equipment when his fingertip entered the side port of a head body while inserting the flow divider. This resulted in a left index fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2019-07-31 | Pottsville | Pennsylvania | Lehigh Valley Hospital - Schuylkill | Neck and back | Overexertion in lifting-single episode |
| An employee was moving heavy floor mats out of a building and into his car. He suffered neck and back strains due to the heaving lifting. | |||||
| 2019-04-14 | Scottsville | Texas | General Cable Industries, Inc. | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee slipped and fell while walking near a water cooling tank that had just overflowed. The employee suffered a broken left femur. | |||||
| 2018-09-04 | Pottsville | Pennsylvania | Walmart Distribution Center | Foot (feet) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| At about 3:40 a.m., on September 4, 2018, an employee was operating a stand-up forklift. The employee's left foot was caught between the forklift and a curb; she suffered a long bone fracture and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-08-08 | Pottsville | Pennsylvania | Lowe's | Brain | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was repairing a loading dock plate when the plate slipped and struck the employee. The employee was hospitalized with a severe head injury. | |||||
| 2018-04-21 | Pottsville | Pennsylvania | Horizon Mental Health Management, LLC | Brain | Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving |
| An employee was providing psychiatric care to a patient that was undergoing a blood draw. The patient became aggressive, kicked the employee, and pushed her across the room. She fell and hit her head on the floor, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2018-04-11 | Pottsville | Pennsylvania | Hudson's Bay Company | Brain | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee tripped on the leg of a whiteboard, fell, and hit their head on the floor. The employee remained alert but experienced a seizure after a few minutes and lost consciousness, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2018-02-03 | Pottsville | Pennsylvania | Hoss's Steak and Sea House | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was bent down checking the burner of a stove. A second employee was carrying a pot of hot soup to place in the soup jacket on the stove. He lost his grip on the soup pot due to a weak spot on the glove. The hot soup poured onto the first employee's head and right shoulder, causing burns. | |||||
| 2017-09-18 | Ottsville | Pennsylvania | Treesmiths, Inc. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level 26 to 30 feet |
| An employee was performing utility line tree trimming and fell out of a tree approximately 30 feet to the ground. The employee sustained a cracked pelvis, broken rib, and a punctured lung. | |||||
| 2017-05-03 | Pottsville | Pennsylvania | Hillside SPCA Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Other animal bites, nonvenomous |
| An employee was holding and moving a house cat when it bit her right index finger. Her finger and hand became swollen due to an infection, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-04-25 | Pottsville | Pennsylvania | U.S. Postal Service | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was on a delivery route when she stepped out of her truck and onto the edge of a culvert and fell fracturing her left ankle. | |||||
| 2017-03-02 | Scottsville | Texas | GENERAL CABLE | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was about to weld a piece of cable from the east side cable to the west side cable. The west side was already clamped off and the employee was putting the east side into the clamp on the cable welder. As he was lowering the guard, the clamp guard actuated catching his right middle finger in the clamp and amputating the fingertip. | |||||
| 2016-09-27 | Pottsville | Pennsylvania | Northeast Prestressed Products, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| On September 27, 2016, an employee was unhooking the safety chain from the hauling trailer when the truck driver started to pull ahead. The employee's right-hand middle finger was pinched and amputated between the safety chain and the trailer's hitch. | |||||
| 2016-09-22 | Pottsville | Pennsylvania | Northeast Prestressed Products, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| A temporary employee was lining up a concrete form during a changeover. His left middle finger was in a bolt hole when the concrete form slid into position and amputated his fingertip. | |||||
| 2016-08-02 | Pottsville | Pennsylvania | Walmart Distribution Center #7030 | Foot(feet) and leg(s) | Fall, slip, trip |
| While opening a dock door, an employee slipped on a wet dock plate and suffered a severe laceration from the heel to the calf, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2016-07-07 | Pottsville | Pennsylvania | Wal-Mart DC 7030 Inc. | Foot (feet) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was operating a high-reach stand-up forklift. When he lost control of the lift and stuck his foot out to control the impact, his left foot was pinched between the lift truck and a pallet, breaking bones. | |||||
| 2016-06-16 | Pottsville | Pennsylvania | Northeast Prestressed Products, LLC. | Foot (feet) and ankle(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was helping to rig a spanner beam to a form so the gantry crane could lift it. One side of the beam was unshackled. The crane operator reeled in the crane, and the un-shackled side of the spanner beam became dislodged from the form's lifting lug. The beam then flipped off the form and fell on the nearby employee's foot and ankle, breaking them. | |||||
| 2016-04-20 | Pottsville | Arkansas | Gator Joist | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was preparing to change a table saw's blade. Before doing so, he cut another piece of wood. As he finished cutting the board, the lumber shifted and his left hand was caught in the blade, amputating the last three fingertips on his left hand. The saw's automatic feed guard was removed at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2016-02-03 | Pottsville | Pennsylvania | Schuylkill Community Action | Multiple trunk locations | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was walking down a flight of stairs to the basement while carrying equipment in his hands. He tripped and fell fracturing five ribs and chipping vertebrae. | |||||
| 2015-12-07 | Scottsville | New York | SABIN Metal Corporation | Multiple body parts | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee tripped and fell over a bucket containing a sodium hydroxide (10-15%) solution. The employee suffered chemical burns to the arms, back and legs. | |||||
| 2015-10-23 | Pottsville | Arkansas | Peterson Concrete Septic Tanks & Storm Shelters | Eye(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was using a hoist to lift a steel lid for a concrete septic tank. The hook slipped out of the chain hoist and struck the employee in the eye resulting in the loss of the eye and a fractured eye socket. | |||||
| 2015-10-08 | Pottsville | Pennsylvania | Cresswell Brothers General Contractors Incorporated | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee sliced the top of the pointer finger while using a power saw to cut wood. The employee was treated in the emergency room, but was not admitted. | |||||
| 2015-08-14 | Pottsville | Pennsylvania | Weiner Iron and Metal Corporation | Leg(s) | Ran off driving surface, nonroadway |
| An employee was driving a forklift up a ramp to the truck scale when he drove off the ramp, fell off the forklift, and broke his leg. | |||||
| 2015-04-22 | Pottsville | Pennsylvania | Monro Muffler Brake & Service | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was mounting a tire when his finger was caught between the rim and the caliper. The employee's right index fingertip was amputated. | |||||
| 2015-04-21 | Pottsville | Pennsylvania | JELD-WEN, Incorporated | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was performing maintenance (cleaning) on the top and bottom roll coater machine at the end of his shift. During the cleaning process, the employee touched the roller and his left arm was pulled into the machine. The employee was transported to the hospital. | |||||
| 2015-04-13 | Pottsville | Pennsylvania | Lift Inc. | Multiple body parts | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
| An employee was performing maintenance on a scissor lift at a customer's facility. The lift slid on gravel on an incline, causing the employee to lose control. The lift tipped over, and the employee sustained a broken femur and pelvis. | |||||