Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-11-02 | Shelton | Ct | Lex Products, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was operating an overmold machine. The machine's table moved while the employee's right index finger was in a hole for the mold, causing the amputation of the fingertip at the first joint. | |||||
2019-08-06 | Shelton | Connecticut | Inline Plastics Corp. | Leg(s) | Nonvenomous insect bites |
An employee was bitten on the leg by a spider while cleaning cobwebs and developed an infection. | |||||
2018-04-02 | Shelton | Connecticut | Inline Plastics Corp. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was operating a table saw when the material kicked back. His hand then contacted the sawblade, amputating his left index finger at the second digit and his middle finger at the first digit. His pinky was also crushed. | |||||
2018-03-05 | Shelton | Connecticut | Colt Builders Corp. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee and three other coworkers were setting a wall panel down on the floor. As the wall was lowered, the employee's finger was caught between the wall and his steel-toed boot. He sustained a traumatic amputation of the tuft of the left third digit. | |||||
2017-01-16 | Shelton | Connecticut | VCA SHORELINE VETERINARY REFERRAL & EMERGENCY CEN. | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee slipped on ice in the parking lot and fell breaking the left ankle. | |||||
2017-01-11 | Shelton | Connecticut | Precision Resource, Inc. Press Room | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee amputated a finger while working with a machine. | |||||
2015-11-20 | Shelton | Connecticut | Inline Plastics Corp. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
The employee was working with a bench mounted drill press and amputated the right middle finger at the second knuckle. | |||||
2015-05-31 | Shelton | Connecticut | Whole Life Company Inc. | Eye(s) | Injury by other person-unintentional or intent unknown, n.e.c. |
An employee was injured while talking a resident down from a ladder. The individual had secured a butter knife to remove the cover off of a light bulb. The employee was slashed in the eye by the butter knife and required surgery. | |||||
2015-01-09 | Shelton | Connecticut | Connecticut Institute for the Blind, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Fall on same level due to slipping |
On or about January 9, 2015 an employee went to warm up their vehicle and while returning into the facility, slipped on ice. |