HONEY BROOK, PENNSYLVANIA—
Wohlsen Construction Company
Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Wohlsen Construction Company , 1200 Tel Hai Circle, HONEY BROOK, PENNSYLVANIA 19344 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
On January 26, 2015, at approximately 8:06 a.m., at the Tel Hai Retirement Community, the worker sustained a partial amputation. At the time of the incident, workers were using a forklift truck to lift a job box (metal box) onto the upper level. While taking the job box off of the forklift truck, the worker's hand was pinched between the forklift truck and the job box. He was taken to Brandywine Hospital Emergency Outpatient. He sustained a bone fracture and partial amputation of his right fourth finger, distal phalanx, distal tuft, with a loss of overlaying soft tissue. He was treated and discharged.
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