Elizabeth, NJ is one of the most dangerous places to work in the United States. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there was an average of five machinery accidents per day in Elizabeth in 2016. In fact, Elizabeth had one of the highest rates of machinery accidents of any city in New Jersey. This is likely due to the high number of industrial and commercial facilities in Elizabeth. When something goes wrong with a piece of machinery, it can lead to serious injury or death. If you are injured as a result of a machinery accident, don’t hesitate to contact a lawyer.
Manufacturing Companies
There are many manufacturing companies located in Elizabeth New Jersey. Some of these companies include
| Actavis Elizabeth LLC Deb El Food Products LLC Hayward Industrial Products, Inc Gallo Wine Sales of NJ Inc A Belden Dearborn Cdt Company Hernandez Beef and Provisions, Inc. Pegasus Home Fashions Inc. |
Nyp Corp. (formerly New Yorker-Peters Corporation) Attitudes In Dressing, Inc. Superflex Ltd. Faulding Holdings Inc Deb-El Foods Corporation Country Club Products Inc Superior Powder Coating Inc. |
These companies produce a variety of products, including engines, machines, and electronics.
Machinery Accidents
Machinery accidents can happen at any time, but are especially common in workplaces with hazardous materials. In Elizabeth New Jersey, there have been a number of machinery accidents that have caused injuries. Here are four examples:
| AccidentDate | Employer | City | State | Description | Injury | Body Part | Event | Injury Source | Other Injury Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07/09/2021 | KFC | Elizabeth | Nj | An employee had been washing dishes. The employee's right leg gave out and she fell. | Traumatic injuries and disorders | Nonclassifiable | Fall on same level, n.e.c. | Floor | |
| 24/08/2021 | CMC Food Inc | Elizabeth | Nj | An employee was working on the production floor in a staging area where she was folding and labeling cartons. The employee stepped out of the aisles of stacked pallets and was struck by a reversing forklift transporting a pallet of cartons. The forklift struck her right foot and she was hospitalized. | Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury | Foot (feet) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area | Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered | |
| 28/05/2021 | Maher Terminals LLC | Elizabeth | Nj | A shipping yard laborer had just helped a straddle carrier operator connect lifting gear to a flat rack's arms. The straddle carrier was lifting the arm when the flat rack slid toward the yard laborer and pinned him against the bumper of the straddle. The laborer suffered a broken sternum. | Fractures | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. | Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, n.e.c | |
| 10/03/2021 | APM TERMINALS | Elizabeth | Nj | Two employees were operating company vehicles in the yard and collided with each other. | Traumatic injuries and disorders | Nonclassifiable | Nonroadway collision with other vehicle | Vehicle | Vehicle |
| 13/08/2020 | APM TERMINALS | Elizabeth | Nj | At around 4:45 p.m. on August 13, 2020, an employee had just parked a rubber tire gantry and was climbing down from it. He slipped and fell from the fourth rung to the ground, suffering a broken leg and a possible broken tibia and fibula. | Fractures | Multiple leg locations | Other fall to lower level | Cranes-gantry, overhead, monorail, container | Floors, walkways, ground surfaces |
| 11/08/2020 | DRS Construction | Elizabethville | Pa | An employee was cleaning up the job site and suffered heat exhaustion. | Heat exhaustion, prostration | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat | Heat-environmental | |
| 25/06/2020 | Home Depot | Elizabeth | New Jersey | A truck's lift gate was raised while the driver's hand was on it. The gate pinched the driver's left thumb, | Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation | Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility | |
| 21/05/2020 | Greiner Industries, Inc. | Elizabethtown | Pennsylvania | An employee was helping to remove pipe from a structure when the pipe fell and struck the employee's right leg, fracturing the tibia and fibula. | Fractures | Lower leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment | Pipes, ducts, tubing | |
| 11/05/2020 | Maher Terminals LLC | Elizabeth | New Jersey | While operating a straddle machine, an employee attempted to make a right turn when the straddle tipped over. The employee sustained a left arm fracture. | Fractures | Arm(s) | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway | Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, n.e.c | |
| 20/02/2020 | Maher Terminals | Elizabeth | New Jersey | An employee was standing on a hatch cover, removing twist locks on the forward end of a container. A container attached to a crane spreader struck and pushed the employee, breaking the employee's right arm. | Fractures | Arm(s) | Machinery or equipment incident on water vehicle | Water vehicle | Cranes |
| 19/02/2020 | APM Terminals | Elizabeth | New Jersey | A truck knocked over an employee, who suffered broken bones. | Fractures | Nonclassifiable | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area | Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility | |
| 29/01/2020 | HEI Civil | Elizabeth | Colorado | An employee came up behind a second employee, who was getting parts off a shelf, to put snow down his shirt. The second employee stood up and turned around, which knocked the first employee over. He fell against a tire and broke his right hip. | Fractures | Hip(s) | Injury by other person-unintentional or intent unknown, n.e.c. | Co-worker or work associate of injured or ill worker | |
| 26/07/2019 | Nordstrom East Coast Fulfillment Center | Elizabethtown | Pennsylvania | An employee tripped over a box and fell to the floor, fracturing a fibula. | Fractures | Lower leg(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object | Floor | Boxes, crates, cartons |
| 15/07/2019 | Romero's Transportation, Inc. | Elizabeth | Colorado | An employee was in a trench cleaning soil off of the water line in preparation for a connection. The trench collapsed along with the soil pile that was approximately one foot from the edge of the trench. The employee was completely covered with soil and was hospitalized for a broken jaw and lacerations to the ear and right arm. | Avulsions, enucleations | Ear(s) | Struck, caught, or crushed in other collapsing structure or equipment | Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations | |
| 27/06/2019 | Pennsylvania American Water | Elizabeth | Pennsylvania | An employee was getting equipment from a truck when the truck door closed on him, rupturing a disc in his back. He was hospitalized. | Herniated discs | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle | Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility | |
| 04/06/2019 | Jacobson & Company, Inc. | Elizabeth | New Jersey | An employee was confirming measurements on the fascia/soffits. While dismounting the ladder, he lost balance, caught his foot on the front rail of the ladder, and fell onto metal cutting shears that impaled his right side. He suffered injury to his kidney, liver and colon. | Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level | Movable ladders | Cutting handtools-power not determined, n.e.c. |
| 08/04/2019 | Wakefern Food Company | Elizabeth | New Jersey | An employee was turning the corner with an electric pallet jack when the employee's leg was caught between warehouse racking and the jack, breaking the employee's tibia. | Fractures | Lower leg(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident | Pallet jack-powered | Racks-garment and other |
| 18/03/2019 | Pennsylvania Coach Lines | Elizabeth | Pennsylvania | An employee tripped on the lip of a concrete pad near the rear entrance of a bus garage. The employee fell to the concrete, suffering a knee injury. | Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury | Knee(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping on uneven surface | Floor irregularity | |
| 21/01/2019 | LCL Bulk Transport, Inc. | Elizabethtown | Pennsylvania | After one of the mechanics repaired the chocolate pump on the trailer, an employee reached into the hose opening and sustained the amputation of the left middle fingertip. The pump was in operation at the time. | Amputations | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery | Trailers | |
| 16/09/2018 | MAHER TERMINALS, INC. | Elizabeth | New Jersey | An employee was driving a straddle when the equipment tipped over. | Traumatic injuries and disorders | Nonclassifiable | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway | Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, n.e.c | |
| 05/09/2018 | US Intermodal, Inc | Elizabeth | New Jersey | At 10:30 a.m. on September 5, 2018, an employee unlocked a shipping container that was mounted on a train, then lost his balance and reached out to grab the container. It shifted, and his right hand was caught between two containers. Three of his fingertips were crushed/amputated. | Amputations | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment | Containers-nonpressurized | Containers-nonpressurized, n.e.c. |
| 28/08/2018 | Loethen Construction Inc | Saint Elizabeth | Missouri | An employee was working at a residential construction site when he fell from a window opening to the ground, breaking a femur. | Fractures | Thigh(s) | Fall through surface or existing opening | Windows, openings | Floors, walkways, ground surfaces |
| 27/07/2018 | Trinitas Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth | New Jersey | An employee was transiting between units within the hospital when the employee slipped on a wet floor and fell to the ground, fracturing the left patella and requiring hospitalization. | Fractures | Knee(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping | Floor | Liquids |
| 20/07/2018 | McGrath Technical Staffing Inc. | Elizabethtown | Pennsylvania | A temporary employee was cleaning behind the radial saw and contacted the saw blade causing a laceration to the right index finger and amputation of the right middle finger. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment | Arm saws, radial arm saws | |
| 12/07/2018 | Mars, Inc. | Elizabethtown | Pennsylvania | An employee was manually jogging a belt pulley on a dust collector motor when he sustained a partial right pinky finger amputation above the first knuckle. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning | Heating, cooling, and cleaning machinery and appliances | |
| 04/06/2018 | Wakefern Food Corporation | Elizabeth | New Jersey | An employee tripped on the gap between the dock plate and a trailer and fell to the ground. | Traumatic injuries and disorders | Nonclassifiable | Fall, slip, trip | Nonclassifiable | |
| 31/05/2018 | Talco Home Improvement | Elizabethtown | Pennsylvania | An employee was walking down steps when her foot became stuck on a step and she fell, dislocating both ankles. | Dislocation of joints | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level | Stairs, steps | |
| 25/05/2018 | Masonic Village | Elizabethtown | Pennsylvania | An employee was mowing grass using a riding mower and struck a tree. The employee was hospitalized for a concussion. | Concussions | Brain | Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c. | Lawn mowers-riding | Trees |
| 15/05/2018 | Clean Venture, Inc | Elizabeth | New Jersey | An employee was helping another employee lower a lift gate on a truck. His left hand was on the edge of the lift gate when the latching mechanism closed, catching his left pinky fingertip and resulting in an amputation. | Amputations | Fingertip(s) | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle | Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility | |
| 21/04/2018 | ACTAVIS ELIZABETH, LLC | Elizabeth | New Jersey | An employee fell off an A-frame ladder. | Traumatic injuries and disorders | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level | Step ladders | Nonclassifiable |
| 17/01/2018 | MWI Animal Health | Elizabethtown | Pennsylvania | An employee was driving a high-reach forklift into a cooler in the outbound warehouse when her foot was pinched between the lift and a beam. Two of her toes had to be surgically amputated. | Amputations | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident | Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered | Structural elements, n.e.c. |
| 11/10/2017 | DGI Menard Inc | Elizabeth | New Jersey | An employee was bending down and cleaning out a box when a piece of angle iron fell on his left ring finger, amputating the fingertip. | Amputations | Fingertip(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment | Angle irons | |
| 21/06/2017 | Nordstrom, Inc. | Elizabethtown | Pennsylvania | An employee was attempting to track a conveyor belt when he tripped. His right hand came down on the moving conveyor belt, amputating his right middle fingertip to the first knuckle. | Amputations | Fingertip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping | Floor | |
| 24/03/2017 | Trinitas Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth | New Jersey | An employee was walking when she missed a small step and fell down, fracturing her right elbow and right foot. | Fractures | Upper and lower limb(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet | Stairs, steps | |
| 11/03/2017 | Amazon.com.dedc, LLC | Elizabeth | New Jersey | An employee on a ladder was removing packages from an overhead conveyor when the employee slipped and fell approximately 8 feet to the floor, fracturing the left humerus and dislocating the left elbow. | Fractures and dislocations | Elbow(s) and arms(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet | Ladders | |
| 01/03/2017 | Leo Kob Co. Inc. | Elizabethtown | Pennsylvania | An employee was using a chop saw to cut a pipe. The pipe was wet and his hand slipped from the pipe up into the saw blade. The employee's left index finger was amputated at the first knuckle and the left middle finger was lacerated. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment | Sawing machinery-stationary | Liquids |
| 08/01/2017 | Kmart Corporation #3842 | Elizabethtown | Pennsylvania | An employee was coming down a mobile staircase when he missed the last two steps and fell. He fractured his lower left leg and left wrist and dislocated his left elbow. He required surgery. | Fractures and dislocations | Upper and lower limb(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet | Movable ladders | |
| 06/10/2016 | Amazon Delivery Station DEW2 | Elizabeth | New Jersey | An employee was pulling a mobile cart backwards from a packing station. The cart was located between a guard rail and the wall, which had a dry erase board mounted on it with an aluminum marker storage tray located along the bottom edge. While passing the tray, the back of the employee's hand came across the edge of the tray, pulling his glove down and lacerating the back of his left hand. | Cuts, lacerations | Hand(s) | Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c. | Blackboards, bulletin boards, mirrors-wall-mounted | |
| 29/09/2016 | U.S. Dept of Homeland Security | Elizabeth City | North Caroli | An employee severed a finger while using a stationary horizontal bandsaw to cut material. The finger had to be amputated. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment | Band saws | |
| 28/07/2016 | U.S. Customs | Elizabeth | New Jersey | An employee was getting into a car when the driver pulled away before the employee was inside. The employee's ankle was run over and fractured in three places. | Fractures | Ankle(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area, n.e.c. | Automobile | |
| 13/07/2016 | Trinitas Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth | New Jersey | An employee was walking, tripped on a shoe lace, and fell fracturing the right hip. | Fractures | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object | Floor | Shoes, boots, slippers, sandals |
| 08/07/2016 | E & J Gallo Winery | Elizabeth | New Jersey | On 7/8/2016, an employee was trying to repair a conveyor when the right hand was caught in the conveyor belt resulting in amputation of the pointer fingertip. | Amputations | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning | Conveyors-belt | |
| 06/06/2016 | TRINITAS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER | Elizabeth | New Jersey | An employee suffered an asthma attack after being exposed to chemical fumes from a nearby floor stripping and waxing operation. | Other respiratory system symptoms-toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode | Cleaning and polishing agents | |
| 14/12/2015 | United Parcel Service, Inc. | Elizabeth | New Jersey | While walking in the crosswalk from the parking lot to the building, an employee was struck by a feeder shifter (powered industrial vehicle), fracturing his leg. | Fractures | Leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area | Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, n.e.c | |
| 25/11/2015 | Michael Foods | Elizabeth | New Jersey | An employee suffered a partial amputation of the right middle finger. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Nonclassifiable | Nonclassifiable | |
| 06/10/2015 | APM Terminals | Elizabeth | New Jersey | An employee's right hand was amputated while rigging new hoisting cables on a crane. | Amputations | Hand(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects | Cranes | |
| 18/06/2015 | RITE SCREEN COMPANY, INCORPORATED | Elizabethville | Pennsylvania | An employee pushing five screen doors felt pain in his back and had difficulty breathing. The employee was hospitalized with a collapsed lung. | Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Overexertion in pushing, pulling, or turning-single episode | Doors, except garage and vehicle | |
| 29/05/2015 | Mora Installations Inc. | Elizabethtown | Pennsylvania | An employee standing on the second floor of the building fell approximately 10 feet to the floor below, injuring his left arm. He was hospitalized and underwent surgery. | Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury | Arm(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet | Floor | |
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Conclusion
If you are considering working in Elizabeth, be aware of this danger and take steps to protect yourself. Make sure you have proper safety equipment on hand, including personal protective equipment (PPE) such as gloves and goggles, and know how to use it. If you or a loved one has been injured in a machinery accident in Elizabeth, contact an experienced machinery accident lawyer. An attorney can help you get the compensation you deserve for your injuries.