Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-08-03 | Westfield | Ma | BOISE CASCADE | Leg(s) | Collision between a moving and standing vehicle, nonroadway |
An employee was operating a stand-up forklift in a warehouse. He backed into a parked forklift and suffered an injury to his right leg. | |||||
2021-04-26 | Westfield Center | Oh | Westfield Group | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against object or equipment |
An employee was working inside a fan housing. The employee's right index finger brushed against a metal burr, and he got a metal sliver in the finger. The wound became infected and the employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2021-04-24 | Westfield | Ma | HOLLINGSWORTH LOGISTICS GROUP-MTESC, LLC | Brain | Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle |
An employee was operating a forklift when it struck a pole. The employee was hospitalized for a head injury. | |||||
2020-08-17 | Westfield | Wi | Brakebush Brothers Inc | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was coming down a 4-foot step ladder and missed the last rung. The employee fell to the floor and suffered multiple fractures to the lower left leg. | |||||
2020-05-19 | Westfield | Massachusett | Savage Arms, Inc. | Multiple head locations | Other fall to lower level |
An employee parked a reach truck at the battery recharging station, fell and struck his head on a battery charger. The employee was hospitalized with a laceration, concussion, and a fractured nose. | |||||
2020-05-01 | Westfield | Pennsylvania | One Wind Services Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was torqueing bolts with a hydraulic torque wrench inside a wind turbine. The employee was reaching to clear plastic debris from between the bolt and the wrench when the wrench actuated, crushing his right little finger and ring finger. He suffered an amputation to the little finger (6 millimeters from the nail); the injury to the ring finger required stitches. | |||||
2019-06-18 | Westfield | Massachusett | Bay State Health Care, Inc. | Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall on same level due to tripping over self |
An employee was walking a family member into a surgical care suite when she tripped and fell, hitting her head on the aluminum door and fracturing her first cervical vertebra. | |||||
2019-05-29 | Westfield | Wisconsin | Brakebush Brothers, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was inspecting a conveyor and caught their left ring finger between the conveyor and the conveyor frame resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
2019-05-24 | Westfield | New York | Growers' Co-operative Grape Juice Co., Inc. | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
When an employee disconnected a hose from a steam line, steam burned the employee's arms, hands, and stomach. | |||||
2019-04-22 | Westfield | Massachusett | Loujean, Inc. | Arm(s) | Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire |
A trailer tire sidewall exploded while being inspected for leaks, breaking bones in an employee's right arm. | |||||
2019-02-28 | Westfield | Massachusett | A. Duie Pyle Inc. | Foot (feet) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
On February 28, 2019, an employee slipped on black ice in a trailer yard, falling to the ground and suffering multiple fractures of the right foot. | |||||
2018-02-23 | Westfield | Massachusett | Savage Arms, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was operating a crane when his hand was caught between the lifting beam attached to the crane and the support structure of a bar-feeding piece of equipment. He suffered a right pinky finger laceration and was hospitalized. | |||||
2018-01-30 | Westfield | Massachusett | Preferred Freezer Services of Westfield, LLC | Nonclassifiable | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee was struck by a stand-up, riding pallet jack. | |||||
2018-01-15 | Westfield | Massachusett | Westfield Electroplating Company | Arm(s) | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
On 01/15/2018, an employee received a chemical burn to the left arm from hydrofluoric acid. | |||||
2018-01-05 | Westfield | Massachusett | Paragon Mfg., Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
On January 5, 2018, an employee was cutting cardboard on a table saw when the rotating saw blade amputated the employee's fourth fingertip. | |||||
2017-04-29 | Westfield | Massachusett | PROLAMINA | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
An employee was looking at the coating on rollers when his hand and arm were pulled into the roller, breaking two fingers. | |||||
2017-03-24 | Westfield | Wisconsin | Brakebush Brothers, Inc. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee and a coworker attempted to re-activate a dock plate after servicing the hydraulic pump. The employees removed their lockout devices and found that the dock plate would not lower. The injured employee went underneath the dock plate to attempt to adjust it to lower properly. As he was in the process of doing this task, the dock plate fell onto his body, puncturing his lung, breaking ribs, and breaking his left scapula. | |||||
2017-02-13 | Westfield | Wisconsin | Power Packer | Fingertip(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
An employee was manufacturing metal cylinders. A cylinder slipped and fell 12 inches. As the employee tried to catch it, two fingertips on the left hand were amputated. | |||||
2016-06-29 | Westfield | Massachusett | PAR Electrical Contractors, Inc. | Hip(s) | Fall on same level |
An employee fell while in the back of the truck and injured his right hip. | |||||
2016-03-11 | Westfield | Wisconsin | Brakebush Brothers, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was jogging a packaging machine and feeding film through it when his hand contacted the cutter, amputating his fingertip. | |||||
2016-02-18 | Westfield | Massachusett | WESTFIELD ELECTROPLATING CO., INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
On or about February 18, 2016, an employee was processing a part down the chemical film line when the employee was exposed to hydrofluoric and nitric-mixed acid solutions, which chemically burned the employee's right thumb. | |||||
2016-01-25 | Westfield Center | Ohio | Westfield Group | Fingertip(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
While cutting lettuce in the cafeteria kitchen with a knife, an employee's left ring fingertip was amputated. |