Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-04-17 | Gridley | Illinois | WATERSHED FOODS, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee had removed the conveyor on the backside of a machine to clean. When the employee went to put the machine back in place, the employee's left ring finger was caught in a pinch point created by the lug conveyor chain and the traying machine. As a result, the employee's left ring fingertip was amputated. | |||||
2020-03-29 | Ridley Park | Pennsylvania | CVS Pharmacy | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping |
An employee tripped while turning and fell to the floor, suffering a broken hip. | |||||
2018-07-25 | Ridley Park | Pennsylvania | The Boeing Company | Head | Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c. |
An employee was operating a forklift when its forks hit a trench plate. The employee fell into the forklift's shield, suffering a head contusion and neck pain. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2017-08-15 | Ridley Park | Pennsylvania | The Boeing Company | Lower leg(s) | Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee's lower right leg struck a platform cart and received a laceration that became infected the next day, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2017-07-28 | Ridley | Pennsylvania | William H Clinger, Corp. | Nonclassifiable | Contact with objects and equipment |
An employee working in an overhead lift was crushed by a structural ceiling beam when the lift inadvertently went into gear. | |||||
2017-04-17 | Ridley Park | Pennsylvania | Boeing | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was masking the aircraft windshield while standing on a portable work stand. The work stand rolled, causing the employee to fall approximately 50 inches to the ground. The employee was hospitalized for a fractured fibula and a fracture of the L2 vertebra. | |||||
2017-04-14 | Ridley Park | Pennsylvania | Maxim Crane Works | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
On Friday, 04/14/17, at 08:15AM, an employee was disassembling a lattice boom crawler crane and removing a 10-foot section. After the pins were removed from the boom, the boom did not immediately break loose. The employee was then descending from the top of the boom when the section separated from the rest of the crane, causing him to fall 9.5 feet to the ground. He sustained a fractured cheek bone, multiple skull fractures, and a fractured shoulder. | |||||
2016-09-15 | Gridley | Illinois | Watershed Foods, LLC | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Moving in opposite directions, oncoming, nonroadway |
On or about September 15, 2016, an employee was driving a stand-up forklift in reverse from the back of a semi-trailer after setting down a load. A second stand-up forklift was also backing up and the two forklifts collided. The elevated forks of the second forklift struck the left foot of the employee controlling the first forklift. The employee suffered three broken toes, requiring surgical removal of the fourth toe, as well as a cut (left foot). | |||||
2016-07-06 | Gridley | Illinois | McCoy Construction Co. | Lumbar region | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was walking on the cord of the roof trusses taking measurements inside the roof trusses when he stepped on a weakened area and fell approximately 10 feet to the concrete floor below breaking the L1 vertebrae and other bones. | |||||
2015-05-14 | Ridley Park | Pennsylvania | WWGrainger | Head | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee tripped over a box and hit his head on a crate, causing a cut that required hospitalization and six stitches. |