Bear, DE

Employers with the most severe injuries in Bear

Example incidents

• Lowe's Home Improvement BEAR, DELAWARE · 2023-03-14 · Fall on same level due to tripping over an object

  An employee tripped over a piece of banding sticking out from a vanity. The employee fell, sustaining a hip injury that required surgery.

• Rogers Corporation BEAR, DELAWARE · 2022-07-21 · Contact with hot objects or substances

  On July 21, 2022, employees were working to set up a calendar machine for new product. The injured employee was in training and entered the front of the calendar oven to feed material through the rollers to a second employee. While feeding materials through the rollers, the machine started pulling the injured employee's right arm into the chill roller and idler arm that was adjacent to a heating roller. The employee suffered third-degree burns to their right forearm.

• Prime Administrators BEAR, DELAWARE · 2021-10-28 · Overexertion in lifting-single episode

  An employee suffered broken bones in the back and ribs while lifting items from a truck.

• Giant Food, LLC BEAR, DELAWARE · 2020-12-28 · Fall on same level due to slipping

  An employee slipped and fell while walking through a bakery. The employee's head and right eye struck a metal prep table, causing right-side head trauma and an injury to the eye.

• Diamond Materials, LLC BEAR, DELAWARE · 2016-10-21 · Struck by falling part of powered vehicle still attached

  An employee was helping to set a concrete lid weighing a couple hundred pounds for an electrical box in place. One end of a length of steel chain was attached to a steel loop (hasp) embedded in the concrete lid. The employee attempted to attach the other end of this chain to a steel loop (hasp) on the back (underside) of an excavator bucket when the excavator boom unexpectedly dropped, pinning the employee's right thumb between the bottom of the excavator bucket and the concrete lid. His right thumb was amputated at a point between the first and second knuckle.

• ROCLA CONCRETE TIE, INC. BEAR, DELAWARE · 2016-04-22 · Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment

  An employee was placing a bottom bar between forms on a module when his right index finger was caught and amputated in a pinch point between the leg of a material cart and the bottom bar.

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