Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-09-29 | Harrisburg | Pa | Precision Blasting, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Demolition or blasting explosion |
A contractor employee sustained a possible amputation of the left leg below the knee during explosive blasting. | |||||
2020-02-14 | Jamestown | Pennsylvania | Combined Systems, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Explosion |
Explosive powder material was being poured into a plastic container. An explosion occurred and five employees were transported to the hospital. One employee sustained burns to the face and left hand. | |||||
2019-04-23 | Keenesburg | Colorado | Hydro Resources - Rocky Mountain, Inc. | Upper and lower limb(s) | Demolition or blasting explosion |
An employee was attaching a detonation cord to a power source when a static charge set off a length of the detonation cord with three charges attached. Two employees were struck by multiple explosive fragments in the arms and legs, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2019-03-06 | Byron | Georgia | Pyrotechnic Inc. | Multiple body parts | Explosion, n.e.c. |
An employee was performing setup procedures on explosives production equipment when some extra energetic residue in the area ignited. The employee's hands, back, and forearm were burned. | |||||
2018-08-29 | Darlington | Wisconsin | Growmark, Inc. | Brain | Explosion, n.e.c. |
An employee was dismantling a lubricant barrel with a torch when it exploded. The explosive force blew out the bottom of the drum, which flew up and struck the employee's face, smashing the welding helmet he was wearing, sending him backwards, and causing him to hit his head on the concrete floor. He suffered facial lacerations, a skull fracture, and bleeding on the brain. | |||||
2016-05-23 | Camden | Arkansas | Esterline Defense Technologies | Multiple body parts | Explosion, n.e.c. |
Two employees were loading explosive pyrotechnics into a drying tumbler when the material exploded, burning the face and hands of both employees. One of the employees also fractured her elbow and lacerated her leg. | |||||
2016-01-11 | Carthage | Missouri | EBV Explosives Environmental Company | Multiple body parts | Explosion, n.e.c. |
On 1-11-16, at around 11:47 a.m. CST, an employee was investigating a robotic system that had shut down in a safety cell due to an error. An explosive device fell from the machine to the floor and detonated while he was exiting the cell. He was thrown against a door frame, breaking his arm and suffering whole-body blunt force trauma. |