Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-08-18 | Vineland | Nj | Garden State Freezer Transportation Co | Arm(s) | Fall, slip, trip |
An employee slipped on dew while getting out of his truck. He fell to the ground, suffering a broken right arm. | |||||
2021-07-19 | Vineland | Nj | Northeast Precast | Hand(s), except finger(s) | Struck by object or equipment |
An employee was working with precast forms. A form was lowered and struck the employee's left hand, dislocating and lacerating his knuckle. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2021-06-10 | Vineland | Nj | AJM PACKAGING CORPORATION | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was performing maintenance on a machine when they suffered a partial amputation of the right ring finger. | |||||
2021-03-31 | Vineland | Nj | Eatem Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was aiding in production when another employee moved the table that the injured employee was resting his left hand on, which pinched his hand between the table and a stanchion and caused a partial amputation of the left ring finger. | |||||
2021-03-11 | Vineland | Nj | AJM PACKAGING CORPORATION | Head | Contact with objects and equipment |
An employee's head struck a machine. The employee suffered a head contusion and fracture. | |||||
2021-01-02 | Vineland | Nj | Safestway Labor Force LLC | Foot (feet) | Collision between a moving and standing vehicle, nonroadway |
An employee was driving a forklift when it crashed into another, stationary forklift. His left foot was crushed. | |||||
2020-06-22 | Vineland | New Jersey | Northeast Precast | Eye(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
An employee was threading a steel cable through a stress head when it became obstructed. The employee looked in the equipment to see what the obstruction was when the tension released and the wire struck him in the eye. | |||||
2019-05-15 | Vineland | New Jersey | BRADWAY TRUCKING, INC. | Brain | Explosion, n.e.c. |
On 5/15/2019 at approximately 8:00 p.m. an employee was using an acetylene torch to cut the top off of a 15-gallon, metal drum. The drum's last contents were highly flammable and the drum exploded as the employee was cutting the top. The employee sustained a head injury. | |||||
2019-03-20 | Vineland | New Jersey | Aunt Kitty's Foods | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was turning on the water to a pump after replacing a broken flange. The upper pipe gave way and hot water caused second degree burns to the employee's face and hand. | |||||
2019-01-21 | Vineland | New Jersey | BRIDOR USA, INC. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
An employee was re-aligning a chain and sprocket on a conveyor. The employee's left hand slipped and his finger was pulled into the sprocket causing a fingertip amputation. The machine was on at the time. | |||||
2019-01-10 | Vineland | New Jersey | Corning Pharmaceuticals Glass, LLC. | Lower leg(s) | Struck by discharged or flying object |
A temporary employee was sweeping the production floor when a nearby tube cutting machine missed a cut causing a glass tube to miss the landing equipment and strike the employee's left calf. The employee was hospitalized with a puncture wound to the left calf muscle. | |||||
2018-09-06 | Vineland | New Jersey | Aunt Kitty's Foods | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
At 9:00 a.m., an employee began a shift loading crates full of cans into pressure cookers. At about 11:30, he began to feel cramping. By the end of his shift, at about 6:30, his cramping had worsened. He was hospitalized for heat exhaustion. | |||||
2018-07-13 | Vineland | New Jersey | AJM Packaging Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
On June 13, 2018, an employee was removing blanks from the rear of a press and suffered an amputation injury to the right middle finger. | |||||
2017-09-17 | Vineland | New Jersey | ADM COMPANY | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was manually putting product into the emulsifying machine. The plastic scraper fell inside the unguarded point of operation and the employee tried to retrieve it. The auger located at the point of operation caused multiple injuries to the employee's right arm. | |||||
2017-04-28 | Vineland | New Jersey | BRIDOR USA, INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
A temporary employee got two left-hand fingers caught in the palletizer machine's chain drive resulting in lacerations and hospitalization. | |||||
2016-08-08 | Vineland | New Jersey | Davy Cold Storage, LLC | Foot (feet) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
An employee was walking out of the cold storage area when a forklift backed up over his left foot, bruising it. | |||||
2016-08-01 | Vineland | New Jersey | Omni Baking Company, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
While clearing a buildup of rolls on a conveyor, an employee's right-hand ring finger was caught between the conveyor and a stationary object, amputating the first distal phalange. | |||||
2016-07-15 | Vineland | New Jersey | Aunt Kitty's Foods | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was hospitalized due to heat exposure. | |||||
2016-07-06 | Vineland | New Jersey | Byers Electrical Construction, LLC | Arm(s) | Injured by handheld object or equipment |
An employee was carrying a piece of sheet metal with a coworker when the metal slipped and severely lacerated the employee's right arm. | |||||
2016-06-24 | Vineland | New Jersey | Aunt Kitty's Foods | Leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
An employee was cleaning product off the floor when a pallet fell from storage and struck the employee, fracturing the employee's leg and causing back pain. | |||||
2016-05-09 | Vineland | New Jersey | AJM PACKAGING CORPORATION | Fingertip(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
On 5/9/16, an employee was clearing a paper jam from the feed wheel of a Peerless paper machine. When he raised the scrap shoot/shear, it fell down and amputated his right middle fingertip. | |||||
2015-08-31 | Vineland | New Jersey | Allied Specialty Foods, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was attempting to pull a piece of plastic from a grinder plate. The employee's finger hit the rotating plate, resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
2015-08-13 | Vineland | New Jersey | Compass Wire Cloth and Industrial Supply Corp. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
Note to user: This record contains two separate events that were reported simultaneously to OSHA by the employer. These events are captured as one report. 1) An employee was smoothing a screen under a heat bar as it descended. The bar came down on his hands and trapped them. He was able to free his left hand, but had to rip his right hand from his glove, amputating his middle fingertip and exposing the bone. 2) An employee was hitting a spike with a hammer. The employee was holding the spike | |||||
2015-07-27 | Vineland | New Jersey | Allied Specialty Foods, inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee lost a fingertip while using a running interleave machine. | |||||
2015-03-23 | Vineland | New Jersey | Kimble Chase Life Science | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee fell from a platform that was 2 to 2.5 feet high, sustaining a punctured lung, fractured ribs, and fractured vertebrae. The employee was hospitalized. |