| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-09 | Williamsport | Pa | United States Postal Service | Hand(s) | Other animal bites, nonvenomous |
| An employee was delivering mail to a home. A dog attacked the employee causing the employee to fall and the dog latched onto the employee's hand. The employee sustained a hand injury and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-06-21 | Williamsport | Pa | UPMC Susquehanna | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Roadway noncollision incident, n.e.c. |
| An employee was standing while providing care to a patient in the back of a moving ambulance. The ambulance made a turn and the employee fell onto wooden cabinets mounted on the wall of the ambulance. The employee suffered back trauma that resulted in hemothorax, that required medical treatment. | |||||
| 2021-06-02 | Williamsport | Pa | UPMC Williamsport Hospital | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was assisting a co-worker with reassembling an operating room bed when her finger became pinched between the top and bottom pieces of the bed, resulting in an amputation of the left pinky fingertip. | |||||
| 2020-07-05 | Williamsport | Pennsylvania | Danzer Veneer Americas, Inc. | Foot (feet) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was working at the opening of a silo. A metal panel, propped up next to the silo, slipped and fell to the ground, striking the employee's left foot and causing two fractures and a puncture wound. | |||||
| 2020-06-11 | Williamsport | Pennsylvania | West Pharmaceutical Services Inc. | Upper and lower limb(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was standing at the box making machine's manual conveyor. The employee's foot got caught on the fixed leg of the conveyor. The employee's knee then buckled and she fell. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured right patella and a fractured left humerus. | |||||
| 2020-03-16 | Williamsport | Pennsylvania | Textron Systems - Lycoming Engines, Inc. | Arm(s) | Fall onto or against object on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee tripped and fell into a mobile material handling cart, breaking his left arm. | |||||
| 2020-03-11 | Williamsport | Pennsylvania | General Cable Corp. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| At about 11:30 p.m. on March 11, 2020, an employee was setting up a drawbench machine to pull aluminum wire. The employee's right ring finger was caught between the wire and the capstan wheel, and the fingertip was amputated. | |||||
| 2020-01-03 | Williamsport | Pennsylvania | West Pharmaceutical Services Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| On Friday, January 3, 2020, at approximately 10:50 AM, an employee was troubleshooting an injection molding machine. With the machine locked out, the employee reached into the molding area of the machine and manually pressed against the mold-closing mechanism. The mechanism closed and caught his right pinky finger, resulting in a first digit amputation. | |||||
| 2020-01-02 | Williamsport | Pennsylvania | Heartland Employment Services, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Fall on same level |
| An employee fell to the floor while walking into a patient's room, fracturing vertebrae and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2019-09-06 | Williamsport | Pennsylvania | General Cable Corp. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was fixing the layer wind of a covered cable on a wooden reel. The employee used his left hand to guide the cable onto the reel. The machine was activated while the employee's finger was under the cable that was under tension. The employee sustained a left middle finger amputation. | |||||
| 2019-08-08 | Williamsport | Pennsylvania | Brodart Company | Pelvis | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was walking in an aisleway when the employee tripped over a pallet laying on the floor. The employee suffered a fractured pelvis. | |||||
| 2019-05-23 | Williamsport | Pennsylvania | SHOP VAC CORPORATION | Forearm(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was working near a conveyor that carried totes of tank bottoms. Another employee stopped the upstream. The employee placed a tank bottom on the stopped conveyor and it fell off. The employee tried to catch it, and the tank bottom lacerated the employee's right inner forearm. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-05-06 | Williamsport | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania College of Technology | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was instructing a class on 5/6/2019, when the employee tripped over a stool and fell onto the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a left hip fracture that required surgery. | |||||
| 2019-02-16 | South Williamsport | Pennsylvania | Matrix North American Construction | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was pulling the locking pin from an attachment on an excavator. Pressure buildup caused the pin to pull back. The employee's right hand was caught between the locking pin and the attachment and the tips of the middle and ring fingers were amputated. | |||||
| 2018-09-11 | Williamsport | Pennsylvania | Wire Rope Works, Incorporated | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| Two employees were untangling lines along a furnace line when one of them, suffering from heat dehydration, became dazed and fell. The employee head struck the concrete floor, causing a head wound. | |||||
| 2018-08-20 | Williamsport | Pennsylvania | Staiman Recycling Corp. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was changing blades on a granulator. While he was rotating the blade assembly to check the top clearance gap, the front tip of his right pinky finger became lodged between the rotating blade and stationary blade, resulting in a pinky fingertip amputation (no bone loss). | |||||
| 2018-07-05 | Williamsport | Pennsylvania | Wirerope Works, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was using one hand to operate a hoist that held a wire-containing bobbin and one hand to guide the bobbin into the slot of a strander machine when the hoist started to lower faster than anticipated. The employee's left index fingertip was then pinched between the bobbin and strander machine, resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2017-09-21 | Williamsport | Pennsylvania | Staiman Recycling Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was cutting off different metal parts on a pipe using an 18-inch shear when the employee's left pinky finger became caught between the two blades, amputating it just below the first knuckle. | |||||
| 2017-08-25 | Williamsport | Pennsylvania | Eat'N Park Hospitality Group, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was using a food processor to cut potatoes when the machine jammed. As the employee was trying to remove the jammed potato, the processor's rotating plate struck and amputated the employee's fingertip. | |||||
| 2017-08-15 | Williamsport | Pennsylvania | Primus Technologies Corporation | Hip(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was standing and opening a large cardboard box when he twisted his right knee, lost his balance, and fell on his right hip. He broke his hip, requiring hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
| 2017-03-15 | Williamsport | Pennsylvania | Penn Recycling, Inc. | Head and trunk | Fall through surface or existing opening 16 to 20 feet |
| An employee was on the roof of the repair garage attempting to repair a leak and fell 20 feet through a skylight. The employee suffered various injuries such as head and back injuries, a collapsed lung, and a skull fracture. | |||||
| 2016-07-11 | Williamsport | Pennsylvania | Shop Vac Corporation | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping |
| An employee was approaching an injection molding machine when she tripped and fell from the floor level onto a conveyor, suffering a large hematoma to her upper left leg. | |||||
| 2015-12-18 | Williamsport | Pennsylvania | Wirerope Works | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Entangled in other object or equipment |
| An employee was checking the wire on strander machine #265. The wire was stranding onto a bobbin and somehow his finger got under the wire. The tip of his left middle finger was amputated to the first joint. | |||||
| 2015-10-29 | Williamsport | Pennsylvania | PMF Industries Inc | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was checking stock and taking inventory when she tripped over a poly strap and fell breaking a hip and injuring her femur. She was hospitalized for hip surgery. | |||||
| 2015-10-02 | Williamsport | Pennsylvania | Williamsport Steel Container Corp. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| While attempting to clear a jam on the pre-curl machine, an employee's right finger was amputated to the knuckle by the machine's teeth. | |||||
| 2015-03-26 | Williamsport | Pennsylvania | Allstate Power Vac | Foot (feet) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| Two employees were removing sludge with a vacuum hose and pressure washer inside a frac tank. One of the employees was hit in the foot with the pressurized water (approximately 3500 psi) from the pressure washer, blowing out the employee's boot. The employee sustained a pin-hole injury to the foot and was admitted to the hospital. | |||||
| 2015-02-04 | Williamsport | Pennsylvania | Lonza, Incorporated | Elbow(s) and arms(s) | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee fell 12 feet to the ground from the top of the top wagon, resulting in a broken left elbow. He was admitted to the hospital for surgery. | |||||
| 2015-01-22 | Williamsport | Pennsylvania | Wire Rope Works, Incorporated | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Struck bump, hole, rough terrain on driving surface, nonroadway |
| On January 22, 2015, an employee operating a rough terrain forklift on frozen ground felt a "pop" in his back. The employee reported the incident to management the following day, went to an emergency room on two occasions, visited a doctor, and had an MRI before being diagnosed with a spinal epidural hematoma and admitted into Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania, on January 28, 2015. | |||||