Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-06-23 | Shippensburg | Pa | Volvo Construction Equipment LLC | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee on a ladder was straightening the door hinge on a piece of equipment using a pry bar when the employee fell approximately 5 feet to the concrete floor below, resulting in lacerations to the back of the head and internal bleeding. | |||||
2021-01-26 | Shippensburg | Pa | Estenson Logistics, LLC | Brain | Collision between a moving and standing vehicle, nonroadway |
An employee's tractor trailer was hit by another truck as it backed into a shipping/receiving area. The employee's head hit the driver's side window and was injured on the left side. | |||||
2020-06-19 | Shippensburg | Pennsylvania | Walmart Stores, Inc. | Wrist(s) | Struck by object or equipment |
An employee was unloading a produce truck when she was sideswiped by a pallet. She fell on the floor and landed on her left wrist. She suffered a wrist injury that required hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
2018-09-07 | Shippensburg | Pennsylvania | The Beistle Company | Thigh(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
A file cabinet toppled under the weight of wet sheets of paper that had been placed on it to dry, breaking an employee's right femur. | |||||
2018-07-09 | Shippensburg | Pennsylvania | New Enterprise Stone & Lime Co., Inc. | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was descending a set of stairs when his boot tread may have become stuck in the stair grating causing him to trip and fall to the ground. The employee sustained multiple fractures to his left leg. | |||||
2018-02-01 | Shippensburg | Pennsylvania | Lowe's Home Centers, LLC | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
The employee was lifting a box containing a microwave by the handle. The handle broke and the employee fell onto their back resulting in a collapsed lung. | |||||
2017-10-13 | Shippensburg | Pennsylvania | Kalmbach Feeds of Pennsylvania, LLC | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was cleaning while standing on the back of a hopper trailer when the employee slipped and fell due to wetness and grain dust, breaking a wrist, kneecap, and pelvis. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2017-07-26 | Shippensburg | Pennsylvania | JLG Industries, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was lifting a cylinder off a rack when it slipped and caught the employee's right index finger between the cylinder and the rack, amputating the fingertip. | |||||
2017-05-10 | Shippensburg | Pennsylvania | JLG Industries, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
An employee was checking the back of a tractor-trailer for obstructions. The tractor-trailer driver lost sight of the employee while backing up and struck him. He suffered a broken leg, two broken ribs, and a road rash injury to the scalp. | |||||
2016-07-15 | Shippensburg | Pennsylvania | Schreiber Foods, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was troubleshooting a filler machine. While replacing the guard on the track chain, the employee's left thumb was amputated at the knuckle. | |||||
2016-06-03 | Shippensburg | Pennsylvania | JLG Industries, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
An employee was driving a stand-up forklift while retrieving parts when he struck a parts rack with his lower leg, fracturing it. | |||||
2016-03-24 | Shippensburg | Pennsylvania | Volvo Construction Equipment LLC | Thigh(s) | Struck by powered vehicle-nontransport, n.e.c. |
An employee's foot hit the down button on a scissor lift table, causing the lift to break the employee's left femur. | |||||
2016-03-09 | Shippensburg | Pennsylvania | Quality Associates, Inc. | Hand(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was on the production floor moving a hot glue cart when the cart began to fall. The employee tried to stop the cart and glue pot from falling, but he fell with it and his hand contacted the melted glue. He suffered third degree burns to his hand. | |||||
2015-06-22 | Shippensburg | Pennsylvania | Schreiber Foods, Inc. | Scalp | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee reached under equipment to retrieve an item on the floor and caught her hair in a rotating shaft resulting in a scalping injury. |