Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at CFS West Holdings Inc, 101 Prairie Village Dr, NEW CENTURY, KANSAS 66031
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the forearm(s).
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Final narrative
While attempting to clear a jam in a machine, an employee was struck by the compression cam, injuring her forearm. The machine was not shut down at the time.
An employee was feeding boxes into a machine when one of the boxes tore. She was trying to retrieve the torn box from the machine's conveyor when she lost her balance, twisted, and fell to the floor, injuring her left hip and requiring overnight hospitalization.
An employee was using a water hose to clean the floors when he slipped backwards and fell onto the leg of a labeler machine, suffering a contusion to the buttock.
An employee was diagnosing an issue with the pallet stacker when the load backrest fell and struck the employee, breaking the right big toe and injuring the second toe.
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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