Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Millwood, Inc., 5530 SR 6 West, TUNKHANNOCK, PENNSYLVANIA 18657
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the head, unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was pushing a stack of pallets down a gravity conveyor. The top pallet fell and struck the employee's head. The employee was hospitalized.
On March 4, 2025, an employee was reaching for a piece of debris on the new repair line paint area, when his shirt strings became caught in a roller. His right little finger was caught in the chain of a conveyor and partially amputated.
An employee was clearing a jam in a pallet nailing machine when their middle finger was caught between a runner and the metal stop of the machine. The employee sustained a finger amputation.
An employee was cleaning up after servicing a machine between the machine's infeed rollers and a guard rail. A forklift was placing a load of pallets on the infeed rollers when the bottom pallet caught the lip of the line, causing the rest of the wooden pallets to fall off the forklift's forks. The pallets pinned the injured employee against the equipment and broke his pelvis.
An employee was loading a wood board into a feeder. The employee's finger was caught between the material and a stop plate, and the employee suffered an amputation to the finger.
An employee was standing near a stack of wooden pallets in the warehouse when a forklift bumped into the stack, causing the pallets to topple over onto the employee. The employee sustained a fractured leg.
An employee was transporting an 800-pound die on a cart from the tool room. The employee was pulling the cart when it struck a metal plate on the floor. This caused the cart to tip forward and the die to slide off the cart. The die struck the employee's left foot and their second toe was amputated.
An employee was using a forklift to load pallets of product on a trailer. He exited the forklift to adjust a pallet by hand. The pallet fell on him, resulting in an injury to the left leg.
An employee was lifting a 500-pound steel counterweight off a pallet using a magnetic hold jib crane. The counterweight detached from the crane and the employee sustained a left foot/toe fracture that required surgery.
An employee was using a pipe wrench to turn a 42-foot-long steel pipe on jack stands to weld the bottom portion. The pipe fell off the stands, striking the injured employee on his left shin. The employee sustained a left leg fracture at the shin area as well as a tibia fracture that required surgery.
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