An apparent conveyor belt mishap at a Long Island recycling plant left two sexagernatian workers injured Monday.
Rescue workers pulled the pair was from under the roller system at Earth-Tec Recycling in Oceanside, according to Nassau County police.
A 68-year-old man was airlifted to an area hospital where he was listed in stable and critical condition following the 10:20 a.m. incident. His 62-year-old colleague was treated for non-life threatening injuries.
Authorities didn’t indicate how the injurious situation unfolded.
A 40-year-old worker at an Oceanside concrete recycling plant was killed by a conveyor belt in 2016, according to CBS News.
Workplace injuries involving conveyor belts aren’t unheard of, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
In November, A 73-year-old recycling plant worker in Clifton, N.J. was crushed in one such incident, OSHA records show. A 35-year-old employee was killed by a conveyor belt in Farmingdale in September.
When a city worker who’d gone seven years without a raise was crushed under a conveyor belt at a Brooklyn sewage plant in 2009, the state Labor Department accused his employer of a “willful violation.”
