Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-09-30 | Scotia | Ny | Adirondack Beverages, Inc. | Skull | Other fall to lower level |
An employee slipped while climbing off a machine and fell backward. His head hit the floor and he suffered a skull fracture. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2021-03-09 | Scotia | Ny | NEFAB Packaging North East LLC. | Jaw, chin | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
An employee was using a drill when the drill chuck released from the drill, hitting the employee in the face and resulting in a broken jaw. | |||||
2020-09-21 | Scotia | Ny | Codino's Food, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
While cleaning a conveyor belt an employee was removing a piece of product and his finger was caught between the moving conveyor belt and scraper. The pad of the fingertip was amputated. | |||||
2020-08-26 | Scotia | Ny | Dimension Fabricators, Inc. | Arm(s) | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
An employee was using an overhead bridge crane to pick up a bundle of steel rebar. As the bundle was clearing the bin pocket, it swung into the employee's right arm and hit it against a fixed piece of machinery. His arm was broken and he was hospitalized, undergoing surgery. | |||||
2019-09-19 | Scotia | New York | Specialty Quality Packaging, LLC. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
An employee was showing another employee how to conduct a test on a machine when the employee's right hand entered the machine. The employee's fingers were caught between a roller and belt, crushing the right middle and ring fingers and resulting in a ring fingertip amputation. | |||||
2019-06-03 | Scotia | New York | Codino's Foods Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was clearing a clump of dough from a pasta machine when the machine's knife amputated the tip of his finger. The machine was guarded at the time. | |||||
2019-02-04 | Scotia | New York | DIMENSION FABRICATORS, INC. | Hand(s) | Collision between a moving and standing vehicle, nonroadway |
An employee was operating a forklift to move reinforcing steel spirals and backed into a parked flatbed trailer. As the employee tried to free the forklift from the trailer his left hand was crushed between the forklift and the trailer. The employee's hand was fractured and lacerated and the employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2016-09-19 | Scotia | New York | Nefab Packing North East | Forearm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was operating a drill machine and cleaning the debris around it. As the drill bit was automatically pulling out of the drilled hole, the bit caught the employee's sleeve and pulled in the employee's right forearm, lacerating it. | |||||
2016-06-12 | Scotia | New York | Adirondack Beverage | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee and a coworker were carrying part of a rack. While the two were putting down the part, it fell on the employee's right big toe, lacerating and fracturing it. |