| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-11 | West Warwick | Rhode Island | Hareld Glass Co., Inc. | Upper arm(s) | Injured by object breaking in hand |
| An employee was throwing a piece of plate glass into a dumpster when the piece of glass broke and fell on his left arm, lacerating his bicep. He was hospitalized overnight. | |||||
| 2015-08-14 | West Warwick | Rhode Island | Amtrol Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee inserted an Allen key into the soft step adjuster of a lip groover to adjust the machine's tension. His left pinky finger was positioned near the machine shaft and shaft housing. The work cell was not de-energized at the time. As he was making the adjustment, the machine cycled, pulling the shaft into the housing and amputating approximately half of his left pinky finger. | |||||
| 2015-04-23 | West Warwick | Rhode Island | Amtrol, Inc. | Elbow(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was walking back from retrieving a piece of equipment (a steel hook) to attach to a vessel when he tripped on the edge of a mat on the floor. The fall caused a laceration to the employee's elbow; he was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2015-01-26 | West Warwick | Rhode Island | Cox Communications | Brain | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| On 01/26/15, a worker was walking to her vehicle in the parking lot and slipped on the snow and struck her head. She was transported to the hospital and was admitted overnight because of the impending snowstorm. | |||||