Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-09-15 | Wildwood | Nj | Champion Exteriors | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level 26 to 30 feet |
An employee fell from a second story residential roof to the ground, fracturing several bones. | |||||
2020-08-11 | Wildwood | Fl | Charlotte Pipe and Foundry Company | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was removing a defective piece of pipe from a bundle of 40 to 60 pipes about 20 feet long and was mounted on a metal cart. When the defective pipe came loose, it pushed back, pinching the employee's right ring finger against the cart. The employee sustained a laceration that resulted in surgical amputation of the fingertip. | |||||
2020-06-29 | Wildwood | Florida | D. Clark Electric | Head | Other fall to lower level |
An employee fell from the third or fourth rung of a ladder to concrete below, suffering a head laceration. | |||||
2020-02-23 | Wildwood | New Jersey | WILDWOODS CONVENTION CENTER (SMG) | Brain | Nonclassifiable |
An employee was breaking down equipment and was found laying on the ground with head trauma and lacerations. Pieces of support truss were nearby. | |||||
2019-05-03 | Wildwood | Missouri | PEAK RESORTS | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was performing maintenance on a ski lift motor. The employee was removing a coupling from the gear box when his finger was pinched between the belt and pulley. His left ring fingertip was amputated. | |||||
2018-07-30 | Wildwood | Florida | Nash Plumbing and Mechanical LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was installing a control box outside in the shade and started feeling lightheaded. The employee later passed out. He was hospitalized for dehydration. | |||||
2018-07-05 | Wildwood | New Jersey | Morey's Piers | Fingertip(s) | Entangled in other object or equipment |
An employee was sitting as a passenger in a utility vehicle, which was traveling on a boardwalk at an amusement park. He was coiling rope in his hands; the rope became entangled under the vehicle's tire and removed the tip of his left index finger. | |||||
2018-02-06 | Wildwood | Florida | Pre-Crete Materials | Nonclassifiable | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee chipped concrete from inside a mixer. After re-energizing the mixer, the employee noticed that the chipping tool attached to the airline was still inside the mixer. When the employee attempted to retrieve the tool, the mixer paddle cut the employee and caused muscular damage. The mixer not locked/tagged out at the time. | |||||
2017-09-06 | Wildwood | Georgia | Koch Foods of Chattanooga Truck Shop | Head and trunk | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was standing on an inclined mobile ladder using a pipe wrench to remove a shaft from an auger on a feed haul trailer. The wrench slipped off the shaft, causing him to lose balance and stumble backward down the ladder. He was unable to grab the handrails on the ladder to stop his fall, and he landed on his tailbone on the floor. His head then fell back and hit the floor. He suffered a lower back contusion and a head laceration. | |||||
2017-08-11 | Wildwood | Florida | Ta Chen International | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was fixing an overhead crane. His right hand was on the crane's trolley rail when the crane operator jogged the trolley, pinching and amputating his small right finger between the wheel and the trolley rail. | |||||
2017-06-08 | Wildwood | Florida | DZ Block, Inc | Upper extremities | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was cleaning a block machine when the employee's left arm became stuck in the machine and was crushed up to the elbow. The block machine was not locked/tagged out at the time. | |||||
2017-03-16 | Wildwood | Florida | Suburban Propane | Multiple body parts | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
An employee suffered burns to his face and hands from a flash fire that occurred while lighting the pilot light to a propane water heater. | |||||
2016-06-13 | Wildwood | Florida | Speedway | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee experienced heat stress while picking up the trash. | |||||
2016-04-11 | Wildwood | Florida | Alliance Coach, Inc. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by powered vehicle-nontransport |
On 4/11/16, an employee was replacing an air valve beneath an RV motor coach when the coach pinned him beneath it for several minutes until he was freed by other employees using jacks and a forklift. He was hospitalized with cracked rib(s) and a superficial laceration of the liver. | |||||
2015-11-16 | Wildwood | Florida | Outokumpu Stainless Pipe, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee's left index finger was crushed between two 21-feet-long steel pipes. | |||||
2015-07-03 | Wildwood | New Jersey | Philly Twist | Nonclassifiable | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee suffered second and third degree burns from hot oil. | |||||
2015-03-05 | Wildwood | New Jersey | Morey's Pier | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee suffered a leg fracture after slipping and falling approximately four feet off a damp platform. |