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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Maxim Crane Works, L.P.

Struck by falling part of powered vehicle still attached · Crushing injuries

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Maxim Crane Works, L.P., 625 Imperial Court, BENSALEM, PENNSYLVANIA 19020 on — Crushing injuries, affecting the knee(s).

An employee was repairing a rough terrain forklift when a hydraulic line failed and the forklift's mast came down quickly, crushing his knee against the ground.

Hospitalized Knee(s) Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered

Maxim Crane Works, L.P

An employee was outside assembling a 500-ton crane. The employee was connecting the rigging to the boom. He leaned forward to attach the lifting plate on the side of the boom and lost balance while bending over. He fell to the ground approximately 10 feet below, landing on his elbow. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured elbow that required surgery.

Maxim Crane Works, L.P.

An employee was operating a crane and changing out a roof-top air conditioner at a school building when the employee began to feel symptoms of heat-related illness, including vomiting and feeling overheated, tired, faint, and weak.

Maxim Crane Works, L.P.

An employee was injured on 1/29/16 when the crane gave away underneath soft ground and pinned the employee's right leg underneath the outrigger. The wooden mat was broken.

Maxim Crane Works, L.P.

While breaking down a hydraulic crane, an employee was in the process of removing the outrigger pad while the outrigger was retracting and got his left hand caught in a pinch point fracturing the middle and ring finger in two places.

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Matthews International Corporation

An employee was fixing a mechanical casket lift in a vehicle when the lift came down on their left-hand fingers, resulting in amputation of two fingers.

Walgreens Distribution Center

An employee was helping to remove the clamp attachment paddles from a forklift so they could then repair a hydraulic leak. The clamp fell and pinned the employee's right ring finger against the mast. The employee's finger was partially amputated.

Beacon Building Products

An employee was on a truck attempting to stow an aluminum extension ladder onto the truck's conveyor boom system. As the conveyor mast was lowered, the boom control area came down on top of the employee's left foot, resulting in two toe fractures.

Frontier Forklifts & Services

An employee was standing on the elevated forks of a forklift to install the fork chain anchor nut. The employee slipped and as he went to catch himself, he accidentally engaged the up-down control for the forks. This caused the forks to fall onto his foot. The employee's right foot was crushed and all of his right toes were amputated.

United Rentals - Aerial

An employee was working on a scissor lift when a portion of the unit came down and struck their head at the lift base. The employee sustained a head laceration and a skull fracture.

UNITED RENTALS (NORTH AMERICA), INC.

An excavator bucket was being removed. An employee was pulling a snap ring to remove a pin and lost his grip. The high-tension snap ring recoiled and his left middle fingertip was amputated by the snap ring.

Beard Equipment Company, Inc.

An employee was walking between service bays. He came into contact with a trailer hitch, which was sticking out of the back of a lawn mower, and fell to the concrete floor. He landed on his right side and suffered a broken hip.

Milton Rents in Rochester

An employee was taking a scissor lift off a flatbed trailer. While using the remote operator controls and walking alongside the lift, the wheel of the lift turned in the wrong direction, causing it to strike the employee and roll over his left ankle. The employee was hospitalized with two broken bones in his ankle.

POWER MOTIVE CORPORATION

An employee was working on an excavator's tracks. He was swinging a sledgehammer to finish pushing a metal tractor pin into the track links. A hammer-blow caused a piece of the pin to fly off, ricochet, and embed itself in his buttock. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

ALL Erection & Crane Rental Corp

An employee was picking up crane pads to put onto their trailer. Their finger got pinched between pads, resulting in an amputation involving the loss of skin.

Main Line Clinical Labs

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Ardent Mills

An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.

Zimmerman & Herr

An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.

McAneny Brothers, Inc.

An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.

Metz Culinary Management LLC

An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.