Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-10-15 | Plymouth Meeting | Pa | Spray Products Corporation | Multiple body parts | Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire |
An employee was trying to remove an aerosol can from the warm water testing tank it had fallen into. The can exploded. The employee suffered injuries to the face, an eye, and the hands, as well as lacerations. | |||||
2021-07-31 | Plymouth | Wi | Cedar Grove Warehousing LLC | Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was swinging a hammer while on a 6-foot step ladder when they fell to the floor, resulting in a broken collar bone. | |||||
2021-06-12 | Plymouth | Wi | Sartori Cheese | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
On June 12, 2021, an employee had finished conducting maintenance on a machine and was closing the door of the machine when their left middle finger was pinched in the hinge, resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
2021-03-17 | New Plymouth | Id | Teunissen Dairy | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet |
On March 17, 2021, an employee fell 17 feet from the bucket of a loader while covering a haystack with a tarp, landing on the ground and suffering injuries to their ankles, feet, and ribs. | |||||
2020-10-05 | Plymouth | Wi | ECS Limited | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was moving the brake table attached to the drilling rig when his left ring finger was pinched resulting in amputation of the fingertip. | |||||
2020-09-20 | Plymouth | Wi | Sartori Company | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was repairing a valve on an air line. As he tested the valve, it closed on his left index fingertip, causing an amputation. | |||||
2020-06-26 | Plymouth | Wisconsin | Rohde Brothers, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was guiding a piece of ductwork as it was pushed into another piece. The employee's right index finger was pinched between the two pieces, causing the amputation of the fingertip. | |||||
2020-03-05 | Plymouth | New Hampshir | Hannaford Supermarket | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was cutting steaks with a bandsaw, The sawblade amputated his right index fingertip. | |||||
2019-07-15 | Plymouth | Massachusett | Mike's Tree Service, LLC | Wrist(s) and arm(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
While cutting limbs from a tree, an employee sustained a severe laceration to the arm/wrist from a chainsaw. The injury required surgery. | |||||
2019-04-19 | Plymouth | Massachusett | NORTHBRIDGE LAURELWOOD II LLC | Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
An employee was putting food away in a refrigerator when a back door opened and hit the refrigerator door, causing it to swing and knock her to the ground. She suffered a shoulder injury. | |||||
2019-03-18 | New Plymouth | Idaho | Idaho Power Company | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level |
An employee slipped and fell while descending a fixed ladder and suffered a broken rib, broken vertebrae, and a lacerated kidney. | |||||
2019-01-29 | Plymouth Meeting | Pennsylvania | Spray Products Corp | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire |
Three employees were running cans at an aerosol manufacturing plant. Some cans fell into the hot water bath and while unjamming several cans exploded. All three employees were injured. One employee sustained a laceration and bruising to the chest that resulted from a flying can and required hospitalization. | |||||
2018-07-06 | Plymouth | New Hampshir | Lakes Region Community Services | Pelvis | Fall on same level due to slipping |
A home health care worker was at a restaurant with a patient when she slipped on a wet floor. She suffered a broken pelvis. | |||||
2018-04-30 | Plymouth | Wisconsin | Lakeland Sports Center | Ankle(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was moving a full 55-gallon drum onto a cart when it tipped and began to fall. As he tried to catch the drum, it struck and broke his right ankle. | |||||
2018-04-22 | Plymouth | Wisconsin | Mills Fleet Farm | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
On April 22, 2018, an employee was using a ladder to obtain product for a customer when the employee fell 8 feet off the ladder to the ground, suffering multiple fractures. | |||||
2018-03-15 | Plymouth | Massachusett | CDF | Leg(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping |
An employee fell on icy stairs and broke a leg. | |||||
2017-10-17 | Plymouth | Massachusett | SHAWNLEE CONSTRUCTION | Leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee was performing residential framing when a telehandler knocked the employee down and ran over the employee's right leg. | |||||
2017-08-01 | Plymouth | Massachusett | TruGreen | BODY SYSTEMS | Nonclassifiable |
An employee was aerating a lawn with hand-held motorized equipment when she became ill and started vomiting. The employee was hospitalized for a heat related illness. | |||||
2017-07-25 | Plymouth Meeting | Pennsylvania | ECRI Institute | Multiple trunk locations | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was installing a computer cable in the ceiling while working from a ladder. While he was putting the ceiling tile back in place, he slipped and fell to the floor, breaking ribs and his back. | |||||
2017-06-25 | Plymouth | Wisconsin | Sartori Company Inc. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was operating a blender when cheese became caught in the blender's discharge door. He was attempting to unjam the cheese blockage when a coworker noticed the blender was in the fault state and reset the fault, causing the blender to run while the employee's hand was in the discharge door. The blender crushed the employee's right hand, breaking and lacerating it. The blender was not locked/tagged out at the time of the incident. | |||||
2017-03-24 | Plymouth | Massachusett | Home For Little Wanderers | Multiple face locations | Struck by discharged or flying object |
An employee was hit by a soccer ball while coaching a soccer game, chipping a tooth and breaking an orbital bone. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2017-02-03 | Plymouth | Wisconsin | Sargento Foods Inc | Thigh(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
Two employees were attempting to bleed air out of a hydraulic line that was supplying a self-leveling dock plate. The first employee was under the dock plate while the other was above and operating the controls. The hydraulic pressure bled off suddenly, dropping the dock plate on the first employee's leg. He suffered a broken femur and required surgery. | |||||
2016-08-08 | Plymouth | Massachusett | Richards Micro-Tool, LLC | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee seated at an inspection station attempted to move a power strip with their right foot. As the employee extended the right leg, the chair tipped and ejected the employee to the concrete floor. The employee suffered a broken right ankle and was hospitalized. | |||||
2016-07-06 | Plymouth | Massachusett | Plymouth Rehab Healthcare Center | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to other harmful substances |
An employee suffered a severe allergic reaction while cleaning up a fire extinguisher discharge, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2016-04-17 | Plymouth Meeting | Pennsylvania | Dave & Busters, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
A pot of hot water fell on an employee, causing second degree burns to her chest, underarms, and face. | |||||
2016-03-01 | Plymouth | New Hampshir | Walmart Supercenter | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was working in the stock area and was coming down the top-stock cart ladder when she missed the bottom step, falling backwards onto the floor and injuring her left wrist and lower back area. She was hospitalized overnight. | |||||
2015-11-12 | Plymouth | Massachusett | CDF CORPORATION | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was operating a machine when his finger was amputated. | |||||
2015-10-07 | Plymouth Meeting | Pennsylvania | C. K. King Builders. LLC | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
An employee fell approximately 13 feet from a roof. | |||||
2015-08-07 | Plymouth Meeting | Pennsylvania | Markel Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was operating a Preform press (#1) when the pneumatic plate activated and severed the tip of the employee's finger. | |||||
2015-05-04 | Plymouth Meeting | Pennsylvania | Markel Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee in the machine shop was polishing an in-house die on a horizontal lathe when the employee's finger got caught on the chuck/die and was pulled in. The finger was dislocated. | |||||
2015-01-19 | Plymouth | Wisconsin | Dairy Farmers of America, Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
On or about January 19, 2015, an employee was operating a walk-behind lift truck and pinched his finger between the barrel lifting attachment and a stationary part. | |||||
2015-01-18 | Plymouth | Massachusett | Maxim Healthcare Services, Inc. | Nose, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall on same level due to slipping |
Employee slipped on ice resulting in a broken nose and a back injury. Employee has been hospitalized since January 18, 2015. | |||||
2015-01-16 | Plymouth | Wisconsin | Paragon Community Services LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
On or about January 16, 2015, at approximately 2:30 p.m., an employee had an allergic reaction to latex resulting in hospitalization. |