Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2019-02-09 | South Hadley | Massachusett | Mount Holyoke College | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Overexertion in lifting-single episode |
An employee was restocking the ice cream bar and lifting boxes from a lower level to table height and was hospitalized for a back strain. | |||||
2017-03-09 | South Hadley | Massachusett | ASSOCIATED BUILDERS, INC. | Hip(s) | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee was grading gravel next to a backhoe when the control lever got stuck and struck him in the hip resulting in a fracture in the ball-and-socket joint area. | |||||
2016-06-21 | South Hadley | Massachusett | KEATING-WILBERT VAULT CO., INC. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was lowering a concrete lid onto a vault. As he was adjusting its position, his gloved pinky finger was caught between the vault and the lid, amputating his fingertip. |