Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Nutrablend Foods LLC , 3805 Walden Avenue , LANCASTER, NEW YORK 14086
on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).
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Final narrative
Powdered product was being dispensed into a bag when the powder stopped coming out of the fill spout. An employee reached up into the fill tube with his left hand/arm until his fingers reached the sliding gate valve, which opens/closes to start and stop the product flow. He pressed a button on a nearby solenoid valve with his right hand, opening the sliding gate valve in the fill tube. He then reached farther up in the fill tube and into the sliding gate valve. He released the button on the solenoid valve, which caused the sliding gate valve inside the fill tube to close and amputate his left-hand middle fingertip.
Two employees were repairing the hydraulic engagement pins on a rented front-end wheel loader. The machine controls were activated to move the attachment pins and an employee's finger was caught between the pins and the bushings. Their right index finger was partially amputated.
An employee was cleaning the conveyor on a piece of equipment when they slipped and their right hand was pulled into the chain sprocket. The employee's fifth fingertip was amputated.
An employee was throwing blankets onto a blanket folding and stacking machine. A blanket got stuck in the machine and she attempted to remove it when the machine contacted her right little finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.
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