Salem, NJ

Employers with the most severe injuries in Salem

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• Mannington Mills Inc. SALEM, NEW JERSEY · 2024-06-17 · Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing

  An employee was performing startup activities on a print line. The employee was scraping dry ink from the bottom of the doctor blade assembly with a putty knife. The back of her right hand came in contact with the doctor blade, which penetrated her cut-resistant work glove and caused a laceration injury to the back of her hand with damage to a tendon. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

• FERREIRA CONSTRUCTION CO., INC. SALEM, NEW JERSEY · 2023-07-08 · Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation

  An employee was assisting with the placement of a vise vibratory hammer with a clamp onto a road plate that was vertically imbedded in the ground. The crane was lowered onto the road plate while the employees rotated the hammer into position. As the hammer s jaws were engaged onto the plate, the hammer shifted away from the injured employee. He was then pulled by the hammer as the clamp remained stationary on the embedded road plate for support of excavation. The hammer pulled him toward the clamp, pinching the employee's fingers against the stop plate on the rail and the clamp. The employee's right middle and ring fingers were partially amputated.

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