Man Injured in Middlesex County Hotel Accident

Woodbridge, NJ - An man was injured in an accident at a Woodbridge hotel last Wednesday, Aug. 24.

At 10:58 a.m. that day the man suffered injuries to his right hand, from his wrist down, after his hand got caught in a compactor at the Renaissance Hotel on Rt. 1, according to My Central Jersey.com, police said. He was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.

Here are other industrial accidents that have happened in the Woodbridge area in 2016:

• On Aug. 8, a 69 year-old man in Linden was working with a table saw when his right thumb and index finger were struck with the saw. The index finger was nearly severed and the thumb was severely injured. This accident occurred at the American Mika Corporation on Pennsylvania Avenue.
• A Newark man was killed in January, also on Pennsylvania Avenue in Linden, when his clothing became caught in a lathe, a machine that rotates an item on its axis. He was dragged into the machinery and sustained serious injuries to his head and arm. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
• In February, a Laurence Harbor man was seriously injured when an 80,000-pound I-beam fell on his leg, crushing it at Matty’s On-Site LLC in Sayreville. The man survived that accident.

The interior of a Renaissance hotel room/Wikimedia Commons