Northampton, MA

Employers with the most severe injuries in Northampton

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• Warner Brothers, LLC NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS · 2025-10-24 · Collision with stationary object, nonroadway

  An employee was operating a roller and paving a small pathway next to a pavilion. The ground was on a slight pitch, causing him to reach up toward the roll cage to stabilize himself. His right fifth finger was pinched between the roll cage and the rafter of the pavilion. The employee sustained a partial degloving injury with partial traumatic amputation.

• Lashway Lumber, Inc. NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS · 2024-05-14 · Struck by falling part of vehicle or machine, still attached

  On May 14, 2024, an employee was raising the dump body on a dump truck to unload mulch. When it would not raise, the employee checked underneath the dump body to look for the issue and the dump body dropped down onto his arm, pinning it against the frame. The truck then rolled down a slight incline, dragging the employee with it. The employee's right forearm was fractured and arteries and blood vessels were injured.

• Algar Construction Corporation NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS · 2024-05-06 · Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation

  An employee was using a battery-powered saw when their left index fingertip contacted the saw and was amputated.

• Pete's Tire Barns, Inc. NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS · 2023-03-27 · Struck by falling part of powered vehicle still attached

  An employee was unloading scrap tires from a forklift into a trailer. As the employee lowered the forklift mast to drop the tires, the tires became pinched between the forklift tines and the floor of the trailer. The employee then manually pushed the tires into the trailer and once free, the forklift tines lowered onto his left ring finger, resulting in a laceration and skin loss.

• SMJ Metal Co., Inc NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS · 2018-11-06 · Struck by dislodged flying object, particle

  An employee was standing inside the building looking out a window on the garage door. The employee knocked on the window to get the attention of employees outside. One employee that was outside knocked on the glass in response. The window shattered and the injured employee had shards of glass enter his eye, resulting in the probable loss of the eye.

• American Environmental, Inc. NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS · 2017-12-05 · Other fall to lower level, unspecified

  On 12/5/2017, an employee was using a reciprocating saw to cut a pipe while standing on a 12-foot stepladder. While he was making a second incision in the pipe, it swung down, hit the ladder, and knocked it over. He fell and his face hit the concrete floor, breaking a facial bone and causing cranium bleeding. He was hospitalized and had surgery.

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Source: federal OSHA Severe Injury Reports, inspections, and ITA Form 300/301 filings. Counts reflect federal jurisdiction only.