| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-07-02 | Spring Grove | Pennsylvania | DM Coatings Inc. | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
| While climbing down a ladder at a water treatment plant, an employee fell into a 10-foot-deep pit, landing on the cement floor and suffering a head injury. | |||||
| 2020-06-10 | Spring Grove | Pennsylvania | H & H General Excavating | Upper and lower limb(s) | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
| An employee had been operating a gasoline powered water pump. When the water pump ran out of gasoline, the employee went to add gasoline and the gasoline fumes ignited. The employee was burned on the left hand, left arm, and left leg. | |||||
| 2020-06-01 | Spring Grove | Pennsylvania | Enerfab Power & Industrial, Inc. | Arm(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee torch-cut an expansion joint around a piece of ductwork at a cage mill. After removal of the last piece of expansion joint, the top pipe chute came down and caught the employee's right arm between the top pipe chute and the bottom pipe chute. The employee sustained a crushing injury to the right arm, requiring hospitalization for surgery. | |||||
| 2020-01-16 | Spring Grove | Pennsylvania | Pixelle Specialty Solutions LLC | Upper and lower limb(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was mixing a batch of starch. As the employee added steam to the mixer, the starch overflowed. The employee slipped on the hot starch, which burned the employee's left hand and lower left leg. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-08-28 | Spring Grove | Pennsylvania | P.H. Glatfelter Company | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| While helping to rethread a paper machine at the dryer section, an employee suffered heat symptoms including cramping and difficulty breathing. The employee was hospitalized for heat stroke. | |||||
| 2018-01-18 | Spring Grove | Illinois | Joe Meyer Tree Service, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was moving a self-propelled wood splitting machine in the storage yard when the vertical splitter lowered on his right hand, crushing and breaking his index finger. His fingertip had to be surgically amputated. The machine was energized at the time. | |||||
| 2018-01-05 | Spring Grove | Pennsylvania | H & H General Excavating | Leg(s) | Nonstructural fire, n.e.c. |
| An employee was walking on a mulch pile to check for fire when a portion gave out. The employee then fell farther into the burning pile, suffering second degree burns to his right leg and requiring hospitalization. | |||||