Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at NISSIN FOODS, INCORPORATED USA, 2901 Hempland Road, LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA 17601
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
While attempting to clean a caser machine at Nissin Foods, an employee's thumb got caught in the conveyor drive chain and sprocket. The employee's left thumb was partially amputated. The machine was not locked/tagged out at the time of the incident.
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.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 311823)
An employee was driving a forklift in reverse to move materials when the forklift ran into a skid that was up on a rack. A finger on the employee's right hand was crushed between the forklift support bar and the skid, resulting in an amputation to the finger.
An employee was climbing in the spreader area to remove a pasta jam when his right little finger was cut by the rotary cut-off knife. The employee sustained a laceration and fracture, resulting in an amputation.
An employee was cleaning accumulated pasta from a jammed regrind machine. The employee's right ring fingertip was caught in the machine and was amputated.
An employee was retrieving a stuck cup from a feeder machine. The machine's cup cylinder arm returned to its "down" position, catching and breaking the employee's right forearm.
An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.
An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.
An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.
An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.