Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-06-15 | Reedsville | Wi | Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Association | Multiple body parts | Struck by animal, n.e.c. |
An employee was trying to keep a wild steer in a holding pen by holding the gate latch down. The steer popped the lock and pushed the gate open, striking the employee in the head and knocking him to the ground. The steer stepped on him. He suffered a broken rib and a broken left leg. | |||||
2021-03-23 | Reedsville | Pa | Alltrista Plastics LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
An employee was separating an injection molding tool. The employee hooked up one of the mold's two sides to overhead hoists and began to separate the mold. The other side (weighing 500 pounds) fell over and crushed the employee's left ring finger against a work bench. | |||||
2019-09-16 | Reedsville | Pennsylvania | Advanced Concrete Systems Inc | Brain | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was strapping walls to a flatbed trailer when the employee stepped off the end of the trailer and fell approximately 3.5 feet to the ground, suffering a fractured skull, broken ribs, and bleeding on the brain. | |||||
2015-03-26 | Reedsville | Ohio | Hawthorne Logging, LLC | Multiple body parts | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
An employee was felling a tree. After the tree was cut, the top of it landed in a hickory tree, causing the felled tree to spring back and break the hinge. The base of the felled tree kicked back and hit the employee, injuring the ribs and the left ring and pinky fingers. The employee was hospitalized. |