Last month, an employee’s leg was severed in a traumatic workplace accident at the Mountain Productions facility located on New Frederick Street in Wilkes-Barre.

The accident occurred at around 9 in the morning when a large pipe or beam fell on top of the worker’s leg.  The pipe was being moved by a piece of machinery at the facility when something went wrong and it fell.  Federal investigators with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are trying to determine what went wrong.

The employee was rushed to Geisinger Wyoming Medical Valley Center’s trauma unit in Plains Township where doctors amputated the leg.

If you or someone you love has suffered a leg or knee injury on the job, contact the Philadelphia leg and knee injury attorneys of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C. at 215-238-1130 and let us help you apply to receive workers’ compensation.

Last Friday, one worker was killed and another suffered serious leg injuries in a workplace accident at the Pepsi bottling plant in Tampa, Florida.  The accident occurred at around 1:20 A.M. in the Pepsi warehouse located in between Busch Gardens and the University of South Florida.

Witnesses to the accident say that the automated lift used to move pallets of Pepsi products in the warehouse collapsed on top of the workers.  The lift fell from about 20 feet in the air.  One of the workers was trapped underneath the lift and pronounced dead at the scene of the accident.

Paramedics were able to rush the other worker to Tampa General Hospital where he is recovering from serious leg injuries.  Pepsi officials said that workers are usually not working in the same area as the lift, but the two men that were, were contracted from a company in Pennsylvania to do maintenance work on the lift system.

Our utmost sympathies go out to the victim’s family and friends.

A member of the deck crew of the M/V Titletown USA recently sued his employer, Bluegrass Marine and Marquette Transportation Company, after having to have his lower leg amputated as a result of an injury on the job.  Gary Levis worked as the lead deckhand on the watercraft carrying seven barges northbound on the upper Mississippi River when he suffered the leg injury.

An accident occurred during his work as a deckhand in September 2009 when one of the barges came detached from the M/V Titletown USA.  Levis filed the master of the crew’s orders to retrieve the barge, but in doing so suffered serious injuries.  The master made a mistake in his orders and caused a line to become tighter until snapping into Levis’ leg.  The line tightened around Levis’ leg and he had to have an emergency amputation.