Suhner Manufacturing, Inc.

An employee had finished grinding a shaft on a lathe and turned the machine off. As he went to remove the shaft, a switch was contacted and turned the lathe on. The shaft on the lathe grabbed his glove wrapping it around the shaft and causing an amputation to the left index finger.

An employee was adjusting a cut and square machine which has two functions. First it compresses the ends of a flexible wire into a square and then cuts it into 36-inch segments. It uses two grinding wheels driven by a set of gears to cut the segments. The employee was checking the grinding wheels when the wheels activated and pinched his left hand in the gears. The employee's left middle finger was amputated. The machine was guarded at the time.

An employee was measuring a cable when his left hand was pulled in between the cable and reel, pinching his left middle and ring fingers.

An employee was using a crane. The hook slipped and a fitting fell onto a finger on the employee's left hand causing a fracture and laceration.

An employee was transporting an 800-pound die on a cart from the tool room. The employee was pulling the cart when it struck a metal plate on the floor. This caused the cart to tip forward and the die to slide off the cart. The die struck the employee's left foot and their second toe was amputated.

An employee was using a forklift to load pallets of product on a trailer. He exited the forklift to adjust a pallet by hand. The pallet fell on him, resulting in an injury to the left leg.

An employee was lifting a 500-pound steel counterweight off a pallet using a magnetic hold jib crane. The counterweight detached from the crane and the employee sustained a left foot/toe fracture that required surgery.

An employee was using a pipe wrench to turn a 42-foot-long steel pipe on jack stands to weld the bottom portion. The pipe fell off the stands, striking the injured employee on his left shin. The employee sustained a left leg fracture at the shin area as well as a tibia fracture that required surgery.

An employee had been utilizing a lift assist for assembly. When assembly was complete, the lift assist was hung on a rack behind the employee and it became energized because the trigger got caught. When the employee reached for the lift assist, it sprung up, striking their face. The employee was hospitalized with a facial fracture(s) and a concussion.

An employee inspected a machine to see if water leaking from the roof was affecting it and covered the machine with plastic. The employee was descending a 6-foot A-frame ladder when they slipped and fell to the ground from the third or fourth rung from the bottom. The employee sustained a fractured left humerus.

An employee was running a steel blanking press. After hearing a rattling noise in a conveyor belt that handled scrap coming out of the press, the employee went to clear a jam on the belt. The belt caught the employee's glove, and the employee's index and middle fingers were amputated.

An employee was operating a cone/spear punch press and went to remove a metal piece when the machine cycled. His thumb got caught between the cut rear section of the converter and the internal parts remaining inside and was crushed. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was loading a coil of steel into the feeder for a 200-ton steel press when it actuated and his hand became caught in the feed rollers. The employee sustained lacerations and a fracture to his left forearm.

An employee was helping to lift the grating from a floor draining system when the grating slipped and landed on his hand, resulting in the amputation of his right middle finger at the first joint.

A casting machine jammed. An employee's hand was caught in the machine, where a belt line caught and amputated the tip of his finger.

During a workshop meeting in a hotel, an employee heard a drilling noise, so he walked outside to see what it was. An explosion occurred (possible gas line) and his face, ear, and hair were burned. He also fell and sustained a pelvic fracture.

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

An employee was using a tool to remove a rag from a roll on the tube mill. The roll pulled the tool and the employee's right hand into the roll, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger and a fracture to the index finger.