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. | |||||
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. | |||||
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. | |||||
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. | |||||
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. |