Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-11-09 | Tyrone | Pa | Steller Innovations LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was running a board through a joiner when a piece of wood got stuck. As the employee attempted to release it, the joiner knives caused amputations to three fingers. | |||||
2021-09-17 | Tyrone | Pa | Team Ten, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was pushing a limit switch on a bailer. The bailer cycled and amputated the employee's thumb. | |||||
2021-07-26 | Tyrone | Pa | Peoples Natural Gas | Multiple body parts | Explosion, n.e.c. |
On 7/26/2021 at 1:08 p.m., an employee entered a customer's residence to investigate a natural gas odor. The house exploded and the employee sustained burns to their hands, arms, chest, and face that required hospitalization. | |||||
2021-03-25 | Tyrone | Pa | Dixon Tool & Die Co., Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c. |
An employee was riding on an electric maintenance cart that contained metal rolls. The employee was holding onto the rolls when the cart hit an object. The rolls moved and smashed a finger on the employee's left hand, causing the amputation of half of the first joint. | |||||
2021-03-17 | Tyrone | Ga | Pavestone, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee had just repaired a portable pallet wrapper and was remounting its metal table top. As he made fine adjustments to align the mounting holes, the table shifted and his left middle finger was caught between the table and a support roller. The finger was degloved and later amputated at the first knuckle. | |||||
2021-02-26 | Tyrone | Pa | CCK, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was pushing meat products down into an extrusion tunnel. The blades in the tunnel crushed and lacerated his index and middle fingers. | |||||
2020-09-22 | Tyrone | Pa | CCK, Inc. t/a Juniata Packing Company | Eye(s) | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
An employee was scooping cleansing chemicals into a vat filled with hot water. The hot water erupted and spilled onto the employee. The employee suffered thermal and chemical burns to their eyes. | |||||
2020-01-02 | Tyrone | Georgia | PUBLIX SUPER MARKETS, INC. | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee was carrying a flowerpot through a store. His right leg caught on the leg of a shelf and he fell to the floor, breaking his right femur. | |||||
2019-01-15 | Tyrone | Pennsylvania | Team Ten LLC | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee was adjusting the position of a paper roll. His hand slipped on the roll causing him to lose balance and fall. The employee fractured his femur. | |||||
2018-09-06 | Tyrone | Pennsylvania | Smith Transport Warehouse | Hand(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
A temporary employee was operating a forklift. The employee's hand was caught and crushed between the lift and an I-beam. The employee was hospitalized for surgery. | |||||
2017-10-06 | Tyrone | Pennsylvania | Brown & Root Industrial Services, LLC | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was moving shipping crates on a truck bed when he fell off the truck bed and struck the ground, fracturing his ribs, wrists, pelvis, and tailbone and puncturing his lung. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2017-06-13 | Tyrone | Pennsylvania | Superior Lumber Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was trying to dislodge a jam on the chipper machine when the employee's right hand contacted the blade, amputating a finger. The machine was energized at the time. | |||||
2017-06-05 | Tyrone | Pennsylvania | Albemarle Corporation | Nonclassifiable | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee and two coworkers were working on a malfunctioning vacuum pump when the pump ruptured and sprayed the employee with hot lubricant, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2016-10-21 | Tyrone | Pennsylvania | CCK, Inc. t/a Juniata Packing Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee suffered a left index finger amputation while feeding pig bellies into the chain and sprocket. | |||||
2016-08-25 | Tyrone | Pennsylvania | Pittsburgh Glass Works, LLC. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was seriously injured after being pinned between a shuttle and conveyor belt while attempting to adjust the glass breakout arm. The employee suffered fractured ribs with a possible spine injury. | |||||
2016-08-23 | Tyrone | Georgia | U.S. MACHINE & TOOL, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was operating a press brake machine, stamping and bending parts, when his right thumb was caught and amputated in the machine. | |||||
2016-07-17 | Tyrone | Pennsylvania | Core Label, a Fort Dearborn Company | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
At approximately 10:45PM on 7/17/16, an employee was cleaning glue from the rollers on the off-line laminator when his left hand was caught in between the rollers. The employee suffered crushing injuries and was hospitalized for surgery. | |||||
2015-08-21 | Tyrone | Pennsylvania | American Eagle Paper Mill | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was adjusting the track control on a conveyor when his hand got caught by the chain, partially amputating his left middle and ring fingers. | |||||
2015-05-20 | Tyrone | Pennsylvania | Carl R. Smith, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee at a site location was helping to empty a tip hopper of glass into a truck bed. The employee's right thumb got caught between the hopper and the truck bed. The employee suffered an amputation to the right thumb tip. | |||||
2015-03-09 | Tyrone | Pennsylvania | New Enterprise Stone & Lime | Lower leg(s) | Slip on substance without fall |
An employee slipped on ice and caught himself while getting out of his truck at the company-owned quarry. He injured his right, lower leg. | |||||
2015-02-05 | Tyrone | Georgia | Publix Supermarket #892 | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee received an amputation to the left middle finger while using the patty machine within the meat department. |