Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Northeast Prestressed Products, LLC, 135 Gordon Nagle Trail, POTTSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA 17901
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
On September 27, 2016, an employee was unhooking the safety chain from the hauling trailer when the truck driver started to pull ahead. The employee's right-hand middle finger was pinched and amputated between the safety chain and the trailer's hitch.
An employee was reading a tension meter attached to a sling. The sling jumped and contacted the employee's left thumb, resulting in a partial amputation.
On June 16, 2020, at approximately 5:00 PM, an employee reached to use controls to lower a hydraulic part of a trailer. The truck was on a hill and the unmovable part of the trailer moved and pinched his forearm against a concrete beam. He was hospitalized with injury to the right forearm.
An employee was delivering concrete beams to a construction project along a highway. During the unloading process, the employee was on the tractor when the employee lost footing and fell approximately 4 feet to the ground. The employee suffered bruised ribs and a dislocated finger, requiring hospitalization.
Two steel beams were being set into place on dunnage. An employee was placing pads under the bearing points when a beam struck the employee's left wrist, fracturing it and requiring hospitalization.
An employee was finalizing a load for transport on a flatbed trailer. When finished, the employee used a chain to descend to the ground. The opposite end of the chain was not connected to anything and the employee fell approximately 10 feet to the ground, suffering a fractured pelvis.
An employee was operating a forklift and unloading a truck. After the truck was unloaded, the employee got off the forklift and proceeded to adjust the dock plate with a hook tool. The dock plate slipped and the employee went to adjust the plate with their hand when their left middle finger got caught. Their finger was amputated above the first joint.
An employee was rotating a carbide granulator blade when his finger was caught between the blade and a stationary part of the machine. The employee's right middle finger was partially amputated and they suffered an avulsion to the right ring fingertip.
An employee was using a CNC metal lathe machine in manual mode to check that the thread blocking tool made contact with the jaws. As the employee was manually spinning the spindle, his index fingertip was crushed between the spindle's jaws and the grooving insert, resulting in a fingertip amputation.
During a material handling operation, an employee's fingertip was caught under an air conditioning unit as the unit was lowered onto a cart. The employee's fingertip was amputated.
An employee was removing a bolt from a tractor hub when their right index finger was caught between the hub and the frame. The employee's fingertip was crushed and the employee was hospitalized.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 327390)
An employee was stacking concrete blocks for a concrete bunker. As a block was swinging into place, the employee's left leg was pinched between two blocks, resulting in injuries to his left heel and lower leg.
An employee was patching precast concrete. He fell from a concrete wall support to the ground due to wind. He was hospitalized with fractures to his left ankle and right knee.
An employee was cutting wood on a table saw when the wood got jammed. While clearing the jam, the wood moved forward and his left index and middle fingertips were amputated.
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.