Newport News Virginia has a population of just under 200,000 people and has one of the highest rates of accidents per capita in the United States. What causes these accidents? A lot of them can be traced back to machinery problems – either with equipment that’s part of a business or factory, or with heavy machinery that’s used for construction or agriculture. When something goes wrong with this type of equipment, it can cause serious injuries or even death. If you’re involved in an accident in Newport News, don’t wait to seek legal help. An experienced attorney will be able to help you understand your rights and options, and protect your interests in the case.
Manufacturing Companies
There are many manufacturing companies located in Newport News Virginia. Some of the more well-known companies include
| Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. Titan II Inc. Northrop Grumman Newport News Inc Huntington Ingalls Incorporated Liebherr-America, Inc. Canon Virginia Inc Calspan Systems Corporation |
Maola Milk and Ice Cream Company East Coast Repair & Fabrication, L.L.C. Uav Communications, Inc. Solo Incorporated Burlington Medical, LLC Plymkraft, Inc. Kinyo Virginia Inc |
These companies bring years of experience and expertise to the area, and their products are used by people all over the world.
Machinery Accidents
Injuries associated with machinery accidents can be devastating, and in Newport News, these injuries are not uncommon and Newport has seen its fair share of accidents. If you have been injured in a machinery accident, contact an experienced personal injury lawyer as soon as possible. You may be entitled to compensation for your injuries. A lawyer can help you establish the facts of your case and negotiate a settlement with the party responsible for the accident.
Below are reports from the area detailing accidents that have occurred recently:
| AccidentDate | Employer | City | State | Description | Injury | Body Part | Event | Injury Source | Other Injury Source |
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| 28/09/2021 | Newport News Shipbuilding Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries Incorporated | Newport News | Va | An employee was checking to make sure a structural unit was cut all the way through in order to flip the unit. While the employee cleared the unit top, a piece of flat bar, approximately 5 feet long and weighing around 60 pounds, slid off the corner of the unit. The employee attempted to catch the bar and sustained a laceration to his right ring finger. | Cuts, lacerations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment | Bars, rods, reinforcing bar (rebar) | |
| 25/09/2021 | MID ATLANTIC COATINGS, INC. | Newport News | Va | An employee was inspecting a blast gun to ensure it was working properly. High-pressure water from the gun struck the employee, resulting in a severe laceration on their left knee. | Cuts, lacerations | Knee(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance | Pressurized water-blast | Power washers |
| 15/09/2021 | Newport News Shipbuilding Division of Huntington Ingalls | Newport News | Va | On September 15, 2021, an employee was removing the through-spindle coolant tube on a gantry mill. The employee lowered the coolant tube and another component shifted, causing his left index and middle fingers to become pinched. The employee's index finger was lacerated at the point of impact and required surgery. | Cuts, lacerations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment | Milling machines | |
| 10/09/2021 | Atlantic Constructors Inc. | Newport News | Va | A lathe was being hoisted by hydraulics so it could be set down on cribbing. An employee was placing a 1-inch thick shim under the lathe when it came down on their thumb. The thumb tip was amputated. | Amputations | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment | Overhead hoists | |
| 10/09/2021 | Newport News Shipbuilding Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, Incorporated | Newport News | Va | An employee using twist pliers to install insulation panels was struck in the face by the pliers when a wire broke. The employee sustained a left eye orbital fracture and possibly a detached retina. | Fractures and other injuries | Eye(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker | Pliers, tongs | |
| 13/07/2021 | Crofton Construction Services, Inc. | Newport News | Va | An employee was standing on a 14-inch, 60-foot-long, 73-pound-per-foot H-pile lying on dunnage. A rough-terrain forklift was being used to move a 6-inch, 12-foot-long channel on its forks. The end of the channel clipped the end of the H-pile, causing it to roll off the dunnage and strike the employee's lower leg. The employee suffered fractures to the lower leg and ankle, with no open wounds. | Fractures | Ankle(s) and leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. | Beams-unattached metal | Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered |
| 12/07/2021 | Dominion Terminal Associates LLP | Newport News | Va | An employee was welding a mild steel deflector onto a rail car dumper. The employee unhooked their lanyard to reach a welding rod and received an electrical shock. The employee fell 20 feet to the steel floor and was hospitalized for a fractured wrist and pelvis. | Fractures | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet | Material and personnel handling machinery | Floor, n.e.c. |
| 01/06/2021 | Newport News Shipbuilding Division of Huntington Ingalls | Newport News | Va | An employee was entering the back door of his work location when he tripped over a concrete slab and fell, resulting in a fracture to his left hip below the ball joint. | Fractures | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object | Floors, walkways, ground surfaces | Concrete blocks, cinder blocks |
| 26/05/2021 | Newport News Shipbuilding Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries | Newport News | Va | An employee was sanding a foundation fixture weighing approximately 400 pounds. The employee was working to rotate the fixture 90 degrees toward the ground in order to access the underlying edges. As he was maneuvering the foundation downward, it tipped over and a protruding appendage of the foundation pinned his pinky finger to the floor. The employee's finger was surgically amputated. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment | Structural elements | |
| 11/05/2021 | FREYSSINET INC. | Newport News | Va | An employee was chipping concrete with a pneumatic chipping gun and pinched their middle finger between the chipping bit and the concrete substrate. | Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker | Striking and nailing handtools-powered | |
| 08/05/2021 | Shearers Foods, Inc. | Newport | Ar | On 5/08/2021, at 1:30 PM, an employee was starting the sanitation prep for a corn mill mixer. The employee opened the bottom side of the mixer inspection door to remove product and the auger caught her fingers causing an amputation of the left middle finger at the first joint, and a fracture of the left index finger at the first joint. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning | Mixers, blenders, whippers-food and beverage | |
| 06/05/2021 | N.M. Ross Investments & Construction LLC | Newport | Nh | An employee was loading plywood onto a material hoist when a gust of wind pulled the plywood from his hands and it fell on his foot and fractured it. | Fractures | Foot (feet) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker | Plywood, wood paneling; particle, chip, flake board | High winds, gusts, turbulence |
| 29/03/2021 | Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC | Newport | Nh | An employee was conducting storm clean up. While cutting a limb from a downed tree, the limb snapped and struck the employee resulting in a fractured foot and four broken ribs. | Fractures | Multiple body parts | Struck by object or equipment, n.e.c. | Limbs, branches-unattached | |
| 11/03/2021 | Arkansas Steel Associates, LLC | Newport | Ar | Two employees were tightening down bolts on a press punch block. As the last bolt was being tightened down, the wrench slipped and part of the press block fell on the hand of the employee holding up the press block. The employee's left ring finger was pinched between the ratchet tool and a punch that was hanging down, causing an amputation of the fingertip. | Amputations | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment | Punch presses | |
| 30/01/2021 | LaValley Building Supply, LLC | Newport | Nh | An employee was operating a chop saw and amputated a finger and injured two other fingers. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment | Sawing machinery-stationary | |
| 13/10/2020 | Newport News Shipbuilding Division of Huntington Ingalls | Newport News | Va | An employee was leaning into an office to speak to another employee when the office door shut and pinched his left middle finger between the door and the door frame resulting in an amputation with bone loss. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate | Doors, except garage and vehicle | |
| 08/10/2020 | Newport News Shipbuilding Division of Huntington Ingalls | Newport News | Va | An employee was removing bolts from the diving door of a submarine using an air-driven impact wrench. When he removed the final bolt, the door swung down, pushing the impact wrench down on his hand. His thumb was pinched between the impact wrench and a support beam under the submarine. The employee sustained an amputation to the left thumb that included bone loss. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Water vehicle incident, n.e.c. | Water vehicle, n.e.c | Impact wrenches-powered |
| 04/09/2020 | Newport News Shipbuilding Division of Huntington Ingalls | Newport News | Va | An employee left his area of the aircraft carrier after lunch and was noticed stumbling and moving side to side as he walked. The employee sustained heat stroke and an acute kidney injury. | Heat stroke | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat | Heat-environmental | |
| 19/08/2020 | Ecosystems Protection SVC | Newport | Ar | At 1:45 p.m. on August 19, 2020, two employees were putting a highway sign on a flatbed truck. The wind blew the sign, knocking one of the employees off the truck. The back of his head struck the curb. He suffered lacerations to the back of the head, a laceration near his left cheek, a broken forearm, and a concussion. He was hospitalized. | Fractures (except skull fractures) and concussions | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level | Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck | High winds, gusts, turbulence |
| 18/08/2020 | Newport News Shipbuilding Division of Huntington Ingalls | Newport News | Va | An employee was next to the "little blue cars" at a shipyard. When the cars were pushed under a strongback (a wooden block) that was supporting a unit, the block was pushed off and fell onto the employee's left hand. He suffered a partial amputation of the middle fingertip, as well as open fractures of the middle and ring fingers. | Amputations | Fingertip(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part | Wood, lumber | Rail vehicle |
| 30/07/2020 | Newport News Shipbuilding Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries | Newport News | Virginia | An employee had been tack-welding boundary bars for insulation on the deck. The employee experienced severe cramps and was hospitalized for dehydration and an acute kidney injury. | Effects of heat and light, n.e.c. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat | Heat-environmental | |
| 21/07/2020 | Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company | Newport News | Virginia | An employee fell through an opening in a deck. He landed about 7 feet below and suffered a broken hip. | Fractures | Hip(s) | Fall on water vehicle | Water vehicle | |
| 10/07/2020 | Newport News Shipbuilding Division of Huntington Ingalls | Newport News | Virginia | An employee was repositioning a ventilation fan. It shifted and fell over, severely pinching the employee's left index finger. The fingertip was medically amputated. | Amputations | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment | Fans, blowers-wall, floor, ceiling, ventilation | |
| 29/06/2020 | Innovative Cutting, Inc | Newport News | Virginia | An employee was cutting a concrete pile when a cut off section of the pile broke loose and crushed the employee's right hand, resulting in a thumb amputation. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. | Construction debris | |
| 26/06/2020 | Suit Kote Corp | Newport | New York | An employee was waiting in the cab of his truck to deliver materials to a worksite when he was overcome by what was believed to be carbon monoxide exposure. | Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode | Carbon monoxide | |
| 26/06/2020 | Suit Kote Corp | Newport | New York | A driver was exposed to carbon monoxide while waiting in his truck. He became ill and was hospitalized. | Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode | Carbon monoxide | |
| 18/06/2020 | Huntington Ingalls Incorporated, Newport News Shipbuilding | Newport News | Virginia | An employee was utilizing a ram on a jack stand to close a structural gap when the stand kicked out and the ram struck his face. He suffered a fractured jaw and other facial fractures. | Fractures | Multiple face locations | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle | Nonclassifiable | Jacks |
| 17/06/2020 | Newport News Shipbuilding Division of Huntington Ingalls | Newport News | Virginia | An employee sat down on his tool box. His left middle finger was then pinched between the lid and the box, resulting in a finger amputation with bone loss. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment | Boxes, crates, cartons | |
| 10/04/2020 | Huntington Ingalls Incorporated, Newport News Shipbuilding | Newport News | Virginia | An employee slipped on a drain plug in the floor and fell, their head striking a table. The employee suffered a pinched nerve and was hospitalized, requiring surgery. | Pinched nerve | Nonclassifiable | Fall on same level due to tripping on uneven surface | Grates and drains in floor surface | |
| 13/03/2020 | Newport News Shipbuilding Division of Huntington Ingalls | Newport News | Virginia | An employee was troubleshooting an R-22 refrigeration system. When the employee went to disconnect a connector from a valve, the connector did not fully disengage from the valve, causing the valve to be halfway open. R-22 refrigerant escaped. The employee was hospitalized with second degree chemical burns and frostbite to the top of both hands. | Second degree chemical burns and corrosions | Hand(s) | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue | Fluorine compounds | |
| 21/02/2020 | Granges Americas Inc. | Newport | Arkansas | An employee was manually rotating the rubber ironing roll of a separator to back-thread the tail through the machine in order to make a splice. After making a couple of rotations, the employee's right index finger was caught between the rubber roll and the material on the arbor roll, pinching and causing a partial amputation of the left side of the employee's right index fingertip. | Amputations | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment | Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery | |
| 19/02/2020 | Newport News Shipbuilding Div. of Huntington Ingalls Inc. | Newport News | Virginia | An employee was installing a carpet runner under a roller table. The employee's left ring fingertip was caught and injured between a roller and a metal plate. The fingertip was medically amputated. | Amputations | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation | Machinery | |
| 14/01/2020 | Newport News Shipbuilding Division of Huntington Ingals Incorporated | Newport News | Virginia | An employee slipped and fell while walking down a stairway and sustained a fractured left tibia and fibula. | Fractures | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level | Stairs, steps | Floors, walkways, ground surfaces |
| 03/09/2019 | Southwest Steel Processing | Newport | Arkansas | An employee was running a trim press on a forging line. His body started cramping and his supervisor took him to the break room to cool off. He later went to the hospital for dehydration. | Effects of heat and light, n.e.c. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat | Heat-environmental | |
| 17/08/2019 | Shearer's Foods | Newport | Arkansas | An employee was cleaning out a tortilla machine. The pneumatic attachment to the masa pump had been removed to prepare for cleaning, and the rotor inside the pump amputated her right middle finger at the first knuckle. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning | Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized | |
| 20/07/2019 | Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company | Newport News | Virginia | An employee was serving as a spotter for the adjustment of staging when several of the staging planks became dislodged and fell to the ground. One of the planks bounced far enough to strike the employee in the back. The employee was hospitalized with an umbilical hernia and had surgery. | Hernias due to traumatic incidents | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by falling object or equipment | Wood, lumber | |
| 19/07/2019 | Dan Daniels Distribution Center | Newport News | Virginia | An employee was walking and collapsed, having a cardiac event from heat exhaustion. | Heat exhaustion, prostration | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat | Heat-environmental | |
| 03/06/2019 | Newport News Shipbuilding Division of Huntington Ingals Incorporated | Newport News | Virginia | An employee was sanding plates on a sander when his left hand was caught between the material and the sander wheel as it was rotating. The employee received stitches on the ring and index fingers and amputated the middle finger at the first knuckle. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker | Sanders-powered | |
| 23/05/2019 | Heatherwood RI, LLC | Newport | Rhode Island | An employee was helping a patient onto an elevator when the employee's foot was caught in the gap between the elevator and the building floor. The employee fell to the floor and fractured the right hip, requiring hospitalization and surgery. | Fractures | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping on uneven surface | Existing floor opening | |
| 09/04/2019 | Newport News Shipbuilding Division of Huntington Ingalls Incorporated | Newport News | Virginia | An employee was abrasive blasting a metal platform with aluminum oxide. The abrasive medium struck the employee above the left knee, causing a severe laceration. The employee was hospitalized. | Cuts, lacerations | Thigh(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance | Source | Sandblasters-powered |
| 24/03/2019 | Newport News Shipbuilding Division of Huntington Ingalls Incorporated | Newport News | Virginia | An employee was cutting cable with a knife and severed tendons on his left thumb. | Cuts, lacerations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker | Knives | |
| 15/03/2019 | Dan Daniels Distribution Center | Newport News | Virginia | At approximately 9:00 AM on March 15, 2019, an employee was seated on the back of a 3-wheeler cart. The driver was reversing the cart when the driver lost control and propelled the employee into a wall and onto the floor. She suffered a severe sprain to her bilateral ankles, shoulder pain, and four dislocated toes (phalanges) on her left foot. She was hospitalized and had surgery. | Multiple traumatic injuries to muscles, tendons, ligaments, joints, etc. | Foot (feet) and ankle(s) | Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway | Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, n.e.c | |
| 04/03/2019 | Navy Exchange | Newport | Rhode Island | While shoveling snow from a sidewalk, an employee felt a racing heart, chest pains, and shortness of breath. The employee was hospitalized. | Nonspecified injuries and disorders, n.e.c. | BODY SYSTEMS | Multiple types of overexertion involving outside sources | Shovels | Ice, sleet, snow |
| 25/01/2019 | C.H. Nickerson & CO., INC | Newport | Rhode Island | An employee was cutting the banding from around a group of pipes when the pipes rolled over his foot and twisted his knee. The employee suffered a left kneecap fracture. | Fractures | Knee(s) | Struck by object or equipment rolling freely | Pipes, ducts, tubing | |
| 22/09/2018 | Huntington Ingalls Industries | Newport News | Virginia | An employee was punching holes in steel plates and caught their hand between the punch and the steel plates causing an open displaced fracture to the middle and distal phalanx of the left index finger with injury to the distal nerve. | Fractures | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation | Punch presses | |
| 08/09/2018 | SOUTHWEST STEEL PROCESSING, LLC | Newport | Arkansas | An employee was using a ratchet puller to remove a clutch plate off a press while standing on a 10-foot portable ladder when he fell to the ground below, fracturing his left heel and right ankle. | Fractures | Foot (feet) and ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet | Movable ladders | Ground, n.e.c. |
| 21/08/2018 | Pro Cut of RI | Newport | Rhode Island | An employee was saw-cutting a concrete slab with an electric flat saw powered by a generator. The electrical cord was being run through an open doorway. A doorstop was holding the door open. Someone removed the doorstop, and the cord was crushed and shorted out, energizing the saw. When the employee touched the saw, he sustained an electrical shock to the right arm and torso. | Electrocutions, electric shocks | BODY SYSTEMS | Direct exposure to electricity | Saws-powered, except chainsaws | |
| 06/08/2018 | Newport News Shipbuilding Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries | Newport News | Virginia | An employee was securing a series of cast iron fixtures called shop blocks (used for material elevation and support) in place by tightening bolts to a rotary table using a pneumatic impact wrench. Before tightening the last bolt, he had to secure the fourth and final shop block. The impact wrench was shifted into its reverse position. When he operated the impact wrench, the bolt backed out and pinched his right pinky finger between the impact tool and the internal cavity of the shop block, resul | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker | Impact wrenches-powered | |
| 29/06/2018 | Newport News Shipbuilding Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries | Newport News | Virginia | An employee was working on an aircraft carrier in drydock. While climbing across from one tower of free standing staging to another, he fell, landing on the dock floor about 30 feet below. He was hospitalized, having suffered two compound fractures in his left arm that required surgery, bruised kidneys/spleen, and a broken left wrist. | Fractures (except rib, trunk fractures) and internal injuries | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 26 to 30 feet | Scaffolds-self-supporting staging | Structures, n.e.c. |
| 05/06/2018 | Arkansas Steel Associates, LLC | Newport | Arkansas | An employee was checking the brakes on a cab crane while donned in a safety harness with a 6 ft. lanyard. The employee leaned over a gear box that controls the auxiliary hoist to the crane and his lanyard was caught in a shaft that was turning inside the gear box. When the lanyard was caught it pulled the employee quickly to the catwalk surface on top of the crane. During the fall the employee hit his head and suffered a scapula fracture due to being constricted by his harness. The employee was | Fractures | Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) | Fall or jump curtailed by personal fall arrest system | Cranes-gantry, overhead, monorail, container | Lifelines, lanyards, safety belts, harnesses |
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