Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-09-30 | Pulaski | Pa | Young Galvanizing, Inc. | Leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
Employees were using an overhead crane to submerge metal I-beams and girders in a galvanizing dip tank. Other I-beams and girders were stacked on the shop floor waiting to be processed. The stack was bumped, causing three I-beams/girders (weighing about 4,000 pounds in total) to fall off and strike an employee's leg. The employee was hospitalized with multiple leg fractures. | |||||
2019-09-23 | Pulaski | Pennsylvania | IPC Services, LLC | Head | Vehicle or machinery fire |
An employee was standing near a low-pressure separator. A flash fire in the separator caused a hose to become detached. The hose struck the employee in the head. Fire was coming out of the hose when it became detached and the employee was burned on the head as well. The employee was hospitalized for a head injury and burns. | |||||
2019-02-20 | Pulaski | Wisconsin | United Cooperative | Brain | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee slipped on ice while walking to a vehicle. The employee's head struck the asphalt parking lot surface; the employee suffered a head injury including internal bleeding. | |||||
2019-02-18 | Pulaski | New York | Tops | Prosthetic and orthopedic devices of the trunk | Overexertion in lifting-single episode |
An employee was lifting a case of coffee when his artificial hip broke loose from his femur. | |||||
2018-07-27 | Mount Pulaski | Illinois | Terra Firma Soil Solutions | Lower extremities | Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object |
A pickup truck rolled and pinched an employee between it and an oil truck. The employee was hospitalized with injuries to the lower extremities. | |||||
2018-01-22 | Pulaski | Wisconsin | A&M Concrete & Construction, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee was unloading materials from a truck trailer when an all-terrain forklift dumped timber onto the employee. The employee suffered a broken pelvis and ankle. | |||||
2018-01-17 | Pulaski | Wisconsin | MCL Industries, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was getting out of their car to come into work, slipped on ice in the parking lot and fell breaking the lower leg. | |||||
2017-06-26 | Pulaski | Wisconsin | Marquis Yachts, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
On June 26, 2017, at 11:30 a.m., an employee sustained cuts and a partially amputated finger while clearing a jam on a band edging machine. The guard was in place at the time. | |||||
2017-01-30 | Pulaski | New York | FX CAPRARA CHEVROLET BUICK, LLC | Head and trunk | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee slipped on ice while walking across the parking lot and fell fracturing their skull and ribs. | |||||
2015-08-22 | Pulaski | New York | Fulton Film Corporation | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
Employee tripped on a metal skid 8' X 20' X 5" and fractured an ankle. | |||||
2015-06-19 | Pulaski | New York | Brennan Beach LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee had a finger amputated and other fingers crushed while utilizing a skid steer to move stone from a pile into the back of a truck. His fingers were crushed against the back of the truck when he reached for the dash bar resulting in injury to fingers on both hands. |