Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at AmeriServ Financial, Inc., 216 FRANKLIN STREET, JOHNSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA 15901
on — Fractures, affecting the arm(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee fell in an elevator, landing on the floor and suffering a compound fracture of the right arm.
An employee was walking behind the store with another associate to get paperwork from the delivery driver when she fell on the walkway and sustained a leg fracture that required surgery.
An employee was adjusting the forks on a forklift when a fork detached from the forklift. The employee jumped out of the way but fell on the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized with a broken hip.
An employee was validating receipts at the drive thru at the bank. While reaching for the validator, the employee slipped out of her chair, striking the back of her head on the concrete floor. The employee sustained trauma to her head.
On March 25, 2025, four employees were conducting routine banking tasks when they inhaled a concentrated cleaning chemical. All four employees went to the hospital. Three employees were not hospitalized; one employee was hospitalized due to the inhalation of benzyl p-chlorophenol which caused nerves in the brain to shut down, causing stroke-like symptoms.
An employee was walking through a cafeteria on the way to his office after delivering a package when he slipped and fell to the floor, resulting in a dislocated right shoulder.
An employee was operating a riding lawn mower with a vacuum attachment. The employee noticed a loose sticker on the blower housing. As he pushed it back into place, his right middle finger pushed through it and into the moving parts inside the blower housing. He suffered a partial amputation to the finger.
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.
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.
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.
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.