Franklin, PA

Employers with the most severe injuries in Franklin

Example incidents

• Franklin Industries FRANKLIN, PENNSYLVANIA · 2024-09-19 · Struck by running powered equipment irregular movement, kick back

  An employee was behind an upright shield guard. He was raking 12-foot-long U-channel bars into a pile as they were kicked off a gauge table. In between kickoffs, the employee stepped to the side to approach the pile. The next set of bars were contacted by the kickers at the same time the gauge came down on the bars. This caused a bar to fly toward the employee instead of falling. The employee was struck on the bridge of the nose, resulting in a laceration and a fracture requiring surgery. A guard was in place at the time.

• Franklin Bronze Precision Components, LLC FRANKLIN, PENNSYLVANIA · 2020-10-28 · Fall on same level due to tripping over an object

  An employee was pouring molten aluminum with a hand ladle. The employee stepped into the sand pan to pour the aluminum from the ladle into the mold. The employee caught his left leg on the edge of the sand pan and fell toward the mold with the ladle in his hand. While the ladle broke his fall, the employee was splashed with molten aluminum on various areas of his body. The employee was hospitalized with second and third degree burns.

• Tri-County Industries, Inc. FRANKLIN, PENNSYLVANIA · 2020-06-26 · Pedestrian vehicular incident, unspecified

  A garbage truck driver had picked up a trash bag and was walking back to his truck when a vehicle struck him, knocking him unconscious. He suffered a dislocated left shoulder and a broken bone above his right ankle. He was hospitalized.

• Specialty Fabrication and Powder Coating, LLC - Franklin FRANKLIN, PENNSYLVANIA · 2020-02-28 · Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation

  An employee was roll-forming sheet metal into an 8-inch tube. The radius had been made too small. The employee tried to pull the metal piece out and their right hand was pulled into the roller. The pinky and ring fingers on their right hand were smashed resulting in medical amputation of the pinky finger. The machine was in auto-run at the time.

• Honeywell Safety Products FRANKLIN, PENNSYLVANIA · 2019-01-28 · Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment

  Two maintenance employees were working together replacing a shaft pin, bushings, and spacers on a crimping machine. While they were attempting to lower the top half via a crane into the bottom half, the parts became misaligned. The first employee used his finger to feel inside the shaft hole and determine why it was not fitting together. The second employee, who was at the controls of the hoist, lifted the part, causing the very tip of the first employee's left index finger to become caught. The first employee suffered a fingertip amputation to the index finger on his left hand.

• Franklin Bronze Precision Components, LLC FRANKLIN, PENNSYLVANIA · 2019-01-03 · Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation

  An employee was grinding a large stainless steel part on a double-end belt grinder when his right index finger was caught between the belt and the grinding wheel, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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