Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-02-11 | Simsbury | Ct | Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Company | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was operating a milling machine when it amputated his fingertip at the first knuckle. | |||||
2016-07-12 | Simsbury | Connecticut | McLean Affiliates | BODY SYSTEMS | Direct exposure to electricity, 220 volts or less |
An employee received an electric shock when she went to turn off the air conditioner in the day room, suffering a burning feeling in her chest and pain in her right arm and leg. | |||||
2015-10-01 | Simsbury | Connecticut | Specialty Saw, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee working on a vertical polisher machine was installing a saw blade. He was hoisting a blade onto an arbor with a spacer. While aligning the blade to the bushing and arbor, he pushed the blade and bushing with one hand and operated the hoist with the other. The blade slipped off the hoist and fell on his left thumb, amputating the tip. |