| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-24 | West Seneca | Ny | KING BROTHERS CONSTRUCTION LLC | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet |
| An employee was dismantling a pole scaffold when they fell approximately 15 to 18 feet to the ground below, potentially making contact with the scaffold as they fell. The employee suffered injuries to their shoulder, leg, and ribs. | |||||
| 2021-04-19 | West Seneca | Ny | The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was getting down from the back of a scrap tire trailer. The employee grabbed the mast of a forklift just as the mast was engaged; the employee's finger was caught between the mast's telescoping sections. The employee's left ring fingertip was amputated. | |||||
| 2021-04-14 | West Seneca | Ny | Mayer Bros. Apple Products | Lower extremities | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
| A fork truck reversed and backed onto an employee's foot. The employee suffered foot and leg injuries including a fracture, swelling, and tissue damage and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-03-31 | West Seneca | Ny | Tops Markets, LLC #212 | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to other harmful substances |
| An employee was stocking shelves when they suffered an allergic reaction to nuts and cleaning products, resulting in hospitalization. | |||||
| 2020-08-17 | Seneca | Il | Renewable Energy Group, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee was operating a caustic flush and adding potassium hydroxide to water when the solution splashed him, causing chemical burns to his arm, face, and head. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2020-06-06 | West Seneca | New York | Rosina Food Products, Inc. | Wrist(s) | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee was pouring corrosive cleaning chemicals into equipment when some of the chemical splashed onto the employee's wrist, causing chemical burns. | |||||
| 2020-06-03 | West Seneca | New York | Rosina Food Products, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning a cheese blender when it partially amputated three of the employee's fingers. | |||||
| 2020-05-29 | Seneca | Kansas | Koch & Co., Inc. | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping |
| An employee tripped and fell on the concrete floor while carrying a flat piece of cardboard to be recycled. There was a score in the concrete at the site of the fall but nothing was sticking up. She sustained a fractured left hip requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2020-03-19 | Seneca Falls | New York | ITT Goulds Pumps | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee was working from a 15-foot-high scissor lift, replacing lightbulbs along a ceiling. An overhead crane struck the scissor lift, causing it to tip over. Its basket fell onto a table on the floor, then ejected the employee; the employee suffered a broken elbow, a possibly broken arm, a broken collarbone, and a head injury. | |||||
| 2020-01-08 | West Seneca | New York | MLP Plumbing & Mechanical, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| After repairing a roof HVAC unit, an employee was descending a ladder when it became displaced. The employee then fell 15 feet to the blacktop driveway below, suffering a broken left wrist, fractured left elbow, two fractured left ribs, a compound fracture of the back, a lacerated kidney, and a fractured pelvis. | |||||
| 2019-09-22 | West Seneca | New York | A-Plus Convience Stores | Wrist(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was opening the lid of a trash bin when she fell about a foot to the asphalt. Both her wrists were broken. | |||||
| 2019-09-10 | Seneca Falls | New York | SCEPTER NEW YORK, INC. | Leg(s) | Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object |
| On 9/10/2019, an employee dismounted a forklift to move an object by hand. The forklift moved and pinched the employee between an object and the forklift. The forklift punctured the employee's leg, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2019-08-20 | West Seneca | New York | Ebenezer Railcar Services, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was painting three links on a railcar's hand brake chain when his right-hand fingers were caught in the chain and pulled into the brake housing. He suffered partial amputations to the index and middle fingers. | |||||
| 2019-07-21 | Seneca Falls | New York | Scepter, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Fall on same level due to tripping |
| At 4:30 p.m. on July 21, 2019, an employee tripped over frozen metal and fell into a sow mold containing molten metal. The employee suffered burns to the arm and torso. | |||||
| 2019-07-03 | West Seneca | New York | Ebenezer Railcar Services, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was climbing down a ladder when the ladder's footing slipped out and it fell. The employee fell to the ground, suffering knee and head injuries. | |||||
| 2019-02-05 | Seneca | Kansas | J-Six Enterprises | Hand(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was helping tear up an old carpet when he received a minor cut on his left hand between the thumb and the index finger. He was hospitalized the next morning, suffering from blood poisoning. | |||||
| 2018-08-06 | West Seneca | New York | CERTO BROTHERS DISTRIBUTING CO. INC. | Multiple body parts | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| An employee was walking through the warehouse going to lunch when he was struck by a forklift, suffering a broken ankle, concussion, and abrasions to the legs and arms. | |||||
| 2018-04-19 | Seneca Falls | New York | ITT Goulds Pumps | Multiple trunk locations | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
| While working with a crane, an employee was hit by a 1.5-ton magnet, suffering a broken pelvis and L5 vertebra fracture. | |||||
| 2017-08-10 | West Seneca | New York | Rosina Food Products, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was reassembling food processing equipment after cleaning it. As the employee was positioning the auger screw in the auger screw housing, a coworker pushed the end of the auger screw into the housing, causing the employee's right hand to be pinned between the auger screw and the auger housing. The employee's index and middle fingertips were amputated. | |||||
| 2017-01-10 | West Seneca | New York | Tops Markets LLC | Lower leg(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was unloading a trailer using a pallet jack. When the employee exited the trailer, the dock plate initiated an automatic reset (a feature of the plate by which it senses a potential trailer pull and will raise itself up to settle back into place in order to maintain a flush surface with the surrounding dock). When the plate began its reset cycle, the employee had already started to back up and while the plate was elevated, the employee's left leg contacted the plate edge fracturing t | |||||
| 2016-10-10 | Seneca | Illinois | Grainco FS, Inc. | Knee(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was stepping into a lime loader truck when his knee popped and he fell to the ground. He tore a ligament in his left knee. | |||||
| 2016-09-14 | Seneca | Kansas | KOCH & COMPANY, INC. | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee's left ring fingertip was amputated while operating a panel saw. | |||||
| 2016-06-20 | West Seneca | New York | Sierra Unlimited Construction, DBA | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was cutting wood with a table saw when the blade amputated two fingers. | |||||
| 2015-08-13 | West Seneca | New York | Rosina Foods, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning the ravioli former when the machine started unexpectedly. His right hand got caught in the paddles, and half of his ring finger was crushed. | |||||
| 2015-05-21 | Seneca | Kansas | KOCH & CO., INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee on the north end of the veneer-cutting area was cutting 80-inch by 5.5-inch veneer on a table saw. The employee grabbed the cut from the front of the table saw while it was running. The blade caught the glove on the employee's left index finger and amputated the finger at or near the first knuckle. All guards were in place at the time. | |||||