Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-08-19 | Brockton | Ma | STOP & SHOP | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
A freezer door handle caused an amputation to an employee's fingertip. | |||||
2021-04-23 | Brockton | Ma | Copeland Toyota | Arm(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
An employee was removing a bearing from a joint using a hydraulic press. The knuckle slipped from the press and struck the employee in the arm, breaking it. | |||||
2021-03-10 | Brockton | Ma | CHAMPION CITY RECOVERY, LLC | Jaw, chin | Struck by object or equipment |
An employee was removing an excavator's grapple arm pin with a hammer and a steel bar. The bar struck the employee's jaw, knocking the employee unconscious and causing an injury that required surgery. | |||||
2021-03-03 | Brockton | Ma | Father Bill's and Mainspring House | Head and trunk | Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving |
An employee was attending to a client in a facility. A tenant at the facility struck the employee on the head, face, and body, causing contusions and bruising to the head and the body. | |||||
2020-09-11 | Brockton | Ma | FedEx Ground | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was injured on September 11, 2020, while pushing down on the support arm of an unloading device while a second employee was cranking it up. The injured employee sustained a partial fingertip amputation. | |||||
2020-08-12 | Brockton | Ma | Allied Waste Services of MA, LLC | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was on a 10-foot A-frame portable step ladder positioned in front of a forklift. The forklift mast moved forward and knocked the employee off the ladder. He fell to the floor about 7 to 8 feet below, suffering a broken ankle (which required surgery) and an elbow injury. | |||||
2020-08-03 | Rockton | Il | Chemtool Incorporated | Foot (feet) and ankle(s) | Transportation incident |
A forklift collision broke an employee's heel and ankle. | |||||
2020-08-01 | Brockton | Ma | Good Samaritan Medical Center IPA, Inc. | Arm(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee fell while walking down a flight of stairs, landing on the concrete floor below. The employee suffered a broken arm. | |||||
2020-05-26 | Brockton | Massachusett | O'NEILL MASONRY, INC. | Upper and lower limb(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee fell to the ground while erecting scaffolding, suffering ankle and wrist fractures that required hospitalization. | |||||
2020-05-21 | Brockton | Massachusett | Hart Engineering Corporation | Upper and lower limb(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee fell about 5 feet off an 8-foot step ladder to the ground while putting up fiberglass panels, fracturing an ankle and wrist. | |||||
2020-03-31 | Brockton | Massachusett | VETERANS ADMINISTRATION MEDICAL CENTER | Leg(s) | Fall through surface or existing opening |
An employee was moving a chair from the bed of a pickup truck to a loading dock. He stepped into a gap between the tailgate and the loading dock and fell into the truck bed. His right leg was trapped in the gap and broken. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery. | |||||
2020-02-11 | Rockton | Illinois | TAYLOR COMPANY | Multiple lower extremities locations | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee was picking up parts from a plastic bin on the floor. When the employee turned around, she caught the edge of the pan with her foot, causing her to fall onto the cement floor. She landed on her left side and sustained injuries to the left tibial plateau, right ankle medial/lateral malleolus, and right metatarsal. | |||||
2019-01-20 | Brockton | Massachusett | Good Samaritan Hospital | Ankle(s) and leg(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee slipped on ice in the parking lot while cleaning her car and sustained a fractured tibia and ankle. | |||||
2018-09-24 | Brockton | Massachusett | T. F Kinnealey | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was operating the meat cubing machine when their glove was caught in the roller blades resulting in surgical amputation of the hand. | |||||
2018-08-31 | Brockton | Massachusett | United Parcel Service | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was delivering packages along his truck route when he became dehydrated due to the hot weather, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2017-01-25 | Brockton | Massachusett | Good Sumaritan Hospital | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee was getting up from her chair when her foot got caught in the wires under the desk and she fell, fracturing the left hip. | |||||
2015-06-08 | Brockton | Massachusett | ROBELL, INC. | Face | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was using a rescue saw to cut a granite curb when it kicked back, hitting him in the face. | |||||
2015-05-26 | Brockton | Massachusett | ECO RECYCLING SYSTEMS, INC. | Multiple trunk locations | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
An employee was standing at a forklift removing the propane tank when a front-end loader backed into him. His hip and back were crushed and he was hospitalized. | |||||
2015-05-12 | New Brockton | Alabama | D&S Logging, Inc. | Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Slip on vehicle without fall-nontransport |
An employee was on a loader step to take out a ticket from the loader operator. He lost his balance when he was stepping down and hit the frame of the loader, injuring his neck. | |||||
2015-03-23 | Brockton | Massachusett | Interstate Electrical Services | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee suffered possible broken bones and a partial amputation of the left long finger while attempting to move a steel grate. | |||||
2015-03-19 | Brockton | Massachusett | United Parcel Service | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Fall, slip, trip |
An employee was hospitalized overnight after slipping and hurting their back. | |||||
2015-01-28 | Brockton | Massachusett | Comcast | Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
Employee fell off an eight and a half foot ladder and broke a shoulder. |