| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-02 | Pittston | Pa | Ball Metal Beverage Container Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| Two employees were replacing a guard chute on a printed scrap baler. One of them was lining up the guard using his left hand when the counter door cycled into the open position, resulting in amputation of the tip of his middle finger. | |||||
| 2021-09-15 | Pittston | Pa | Ball Metal Beverage Container Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
| As an employee was stepping down from a step ladder, their right middle finger got caught between the employee's tool holder and the ladder. The employee's fingernail was removed and the finger was fractured. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2020-06-30 | Pittston | Pennsylvania | Corning Lifesciences | Multiple trunk locations | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| On June 30, 2020, at approximately 3:45 PM, a temporary employee picking orders in the warehouse was struck in the back of the neck by a stack of boxes that fell from stacked pallets. The employee sustained fractures to the back, ribs, and pelvis, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2019-08-08 | Pittston | Pennsylvania | Conbraco Industries | Pelvis | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was operating a stock picker and got caught between the stock picker and a pallet rack resulting in a fractured pelvis. | |||||
| 2019-05-04 | Pittston | Pennsylvania | Linde Corporation | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
| A maintenance employee was working alone on May 4, 2019. The employee may have been performing a sanding operation in an office and fallen from a 6-foot step ladder. He was found with head trauma and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-01-03 | Pittston | Pennsylvania | Romark Logistics of PA, Inc. | Foot (feet) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| A temporary employee was parking a forklift and exited the vehicle. The employee's left foot was then pinned between a guardrail and the forklift, sustaining a laceration, soft tissue damage, and ligament damage. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery. The forklift had not come to a complete stop at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2018-06-12 | Pittston | Pennsylvania | USHydrations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| A forklift operator was attempting to move a single stack of pallets (22 high). Behind the single stack of pallets was a double stack of pallets (44 high). As the forklift lifted the single stack of pallets, a pallet in the double stack of pallets became dislodged. The double stack of pallets fell down over the top of the single stack of pallets, over the forklift mast, and onto the forklift operator's cab enclosure. As the pallets fell onto the forklift, the forklift operator reacted by putting | |||||
| 2017-09-11 | Pittston | Pennsylvania | Action Lift Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| On September 11, 2017, at approximately 1:30 PM, two employees were performing service on a forklift (one employee was adjusting tension on the fan belt/the second was lubing the steering axle). The second employee attempted to start the forklift and the first employee's left hand was caught between the fan belt and pulley, amputating the middle, ring and pinky fingertips. | |||||
| 2017-08-09 | Pittston | Pennsylvania | Home Depot RDC #5089 | Lower leg(s) | Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway |
| On August 9, 2017, an employee was driving an electric pallet jack when she became lightheaded and fainted. She fell from the pallet jack and broke her fibula, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-07-04 | Pittston | Pennsylvania | Prime Incorporated | Eye(s) | Injured by handheld object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was using an industrial hand drill to make a hole in a cinder block. The drill bit caught a snag and the drill spun around in the employee's hand, causing him to lose his grip. He was then struck by the drill and suffered an orbital bone fracture on his face and blood clot behind his eye. | |||||
| 2017-05-16 | Pittston | Pennsylvania | Interstate Building Products, Inc. | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was descending from a storage rack when he stepped into a wheeled cart and fell to the floor, suffering a contusion and concussion. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2016-10-13 | Pittston | Pennsylvania | Mericle Commercial Real Estate Group, Inc. | Lumbar region | Other fall to lower level |
| An operator slipped and fell off his excavator landing on a drainage pipe. The employee was hospitalized for a lower back fracture. | |||||
| 2016-08-11 | Pittston | Pennsylvania | Lowe's Companies, Incorporated | Foot (feet) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
| On August 11, 2016, at approximately 8:30 AM, a forklift ran over an employee's right foot, breaking it. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2016-05-22 | Pittston | Pennsylvania | PRIME INC | Nonclassifiable | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was airing up a steer tire for a tractor trailer truck. He put it in a cage and was walking back to check for leaks when a zipper rupture occurred. The force pushed him back and he fell onto the ground. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2015-03-09 | Pittston | Pennsylvania | Prime Incorporated | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee severely injured his right-hand pinky finger while changing brakes on a truck tractor. The tool used to hold tension on the brake components slipped, and the components crushed the finger. | |||||