| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-13 | Plattsburgh | Ny | Camso Manufacturing USA, LTD. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| An employee's right middle fingertip was amputated by a track punch machine while the employee was being trained to operate the machine. | |||||
| 2021-02-24 | Plattsburgh | Ny | LUCK BUILDERS INC | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment less than 6 feet |
| An employee was on the second rung of an A-frame stepladder when the ladder collapsed. The employee fell to the ground, landing chest-first on the top of the ladder and suffering broken ribs and a possible collapsed lung. | |||||
| 2021-01-28 | Plattsburgh | Ny | Clinton County Chapter NYSARC | Brain | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee stumbled while stepping down off a 4-foot ladder. He tripped and his head hit the wall; he then fell to the floor and lost consciousness, having suffered a concussion with brain bleeding. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2020-06-24 | Plattsburgh | New York | Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over self |
| While walking through the parking lot, an employee tripped and fell and stumbled into a brick wall. The employee was hospitalized with a hematoma to the right eye, a contusion to the right shoulder, and a fractured right femur. | |||||
| 2019-04-30 | Plattsburgh | New York | Lake Champlain Roofing, LLC. | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was using a table saw to cut wooden shingles. The shingles kicked back and the employee's hand contacted the blade resulting in a laceration to the left index finger. The fingertip was medically amputated. | |||||
| 2018-09-17 | Plattsburgh | New York | Camso Manufacturing USA, Limited | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was performing a pre-cording operation, which is part of the manufacturing of snowmobile tracks. While pulling a cord tight, the machine caught and amputated the tip of his left little finger. | |||||
| 2018-04-07 | Plattsburgh | New York | Apex Solar Power LLC | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was transitioning off the ladder onto the lower roof, lost his footing and fell resulting in a skull fracture and brain swelling, a broken collar bone and a severed artery in the brain. | |||||
| 2018-02-20 | Plattsburgh | New York | VAPOR STONE RAIL SYSTEM | Lower leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was helping a coworker rearrange a crate (weighing 706 pounds) with an electric pallet jack. He was standing at the end of the forks and leaned the wooden crate to get it off the forks. His coworker then lowered the forks, which bumped the ground, and the crate tipped. He tried to stop the crate from falling, but it fell on his right leg, fracturing it between the knee and foot, and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-07-28 | Plattsburgh | New York | Clinton County Chapter NYSARC | Knee(s) | Fall on same level |
| An employee was walking up stairs from the lower parking lot to the upper parking lot. At the top of the stairs, the employee fell and her right knee hit the paving bricks/concrete on the ground, fracturing the knee. | |||||
| 2017-07-17 | Plattsburgh | New York | LUPINI CONSTRUCTION, INC. | Knee(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| An employee was pressure washing concrete and contacted his left knee with the high pressure water stream (3500 psi) resulting in a laceration to the kneecap and air behind the knee. | |||||
| 2017-05-10 | Plattsburgh | New York | Nova Bus Plattsburgh | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was working on a pneumatic nut runner (air ratchet) equipped with a long extension to bolt seat rails to a bus. The employee was wearing gloves at the time. She was holding the air ratchet overhead with her left hand near the rotating ratchet head when the ratchet head and extension caught her glove, wrapping it around her left pinky and partially de-gloving it. Her left pinky finger had to be partially amputated. | |||||
| 2017-02-07 | Plattsburgh | New York | Mold Rite Plastics | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was working on a locked-out machine, which had a chain with slack. He then unlocked the machine and activated it. He was tapping the machine to see if it would speed up when his left distal finger was caught and partially amputated by the chain and sprocket. | |||||
| 2016-04-14 | Plattsburgh | New York | SALERNO Packaging Inc. | Forearm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| A maintenance employee was troubleshooting an ink press when his jacket was caught in the antilock and cylinder gear of the flexographic press. His right arm was pulled into the machine and was amputated from the elbow down. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time. | |||||
| 2015-11-05 | Plattsburgh | New York | Aztec Technologies | Multiple trunk locations | Other jump to lower level |
| An employee was injured after jumping off a motorboat and falling into a sluice. The employee had fractures to his ribs and vertebrae. | |||||