Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-10-21 | Presque Isle | Me | Aroostook Trusses, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was moving a wall panel. The employee's right little finger was caught and crushed between the panel and a metal table. The finger was amputated. | |||||
2021-04-16 | Presque Isle | Me | McCain Fertilizer, Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
Material was being transferred from one bag to another using a forklift. One of the forklifts moved as an employee reached to open a bag further, and the employee's right ring finger was caught between the mast of one forklift and the tine of the other. The finger was amputated at the top knuckle. | |||||
2021-01-13 | Presque Isle | Me | Aroostook County Action Program | Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) | Fall on same level due to tripping |
An employee tripped and fell while cleaning tables, striking a table and suffering a shoulder dislocation. She was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-08-06 | Presque Isle | Maine | AR Gould Hospital | Heart | Exposure to traumatic or stressful event, n.e.c. |
An employee was hospitalized due to stress-related angina. | |||||
2019-05-27 | Presque Isle | Maine | H.O. Bouchard | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other exertions or bodily reactions |
An employee was getting out of a truck cab after driving when he started to have back spasms, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2019-02-06 | Presque Isle | Maine | Aroostook County Action Program | Brain | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee slipped and fell on ice in the company parking lot while walking into the office. She hit her head, suffering a subdural hematoma and a concussion. | |||||
2017-09-19 | Presque Isle | Maine | Mechanical Services | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
A employee was replacing a failed expansion valve on a refrigerated display case. He was soldering a copper pipe when a small amount of refrigerant in the pipe expanded when heated and flashed. He started coughing and had a runny nose, requiring hospitalization for respiratory irritation. | |||||
2017-09-04 | Presque Isle | Maine | Denis L Maher Co., LLC | Multiple body parts | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
An employee was lowering a well pump down a well shaft when a 1/2-inch cable snapped and whipped back up, striking the employee. He suffered lacerations to both hands and bruising on the chest, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2016-05-03 | Presque Isle | Maine | AROOSTOOK MEDICAL CENTER | Upper and lower limb(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee tripped and fell on the carpet at the main entrance of the hospital. | |||||
2015-07-18 | Presque Isle | Maine | Lane Construction Company | Nonclassifiable | Vehicle struck object or animal on side of roadway |
An employee lost control of his truck while trying to avoid a deer, ran off the highway, and struck a tree. |