LG Hausys America

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.

An employee was cutting a 7-foot pipe using a band saw. He went to wipe moisture off the pipe with a rag and the rag became entangled in the moving saw blade, pulling his right hand into the blade. The employee sustained a partial amputation to the fourth distal phalanx and third digit.

An employee was working in the grinding room on a production line for bathtubs. The tubs are laid on a conveyor and have wooden blocks for feet. The conveyor moves the tubs onto a saw that cuts off the wooden blocks. The saws are protected by expandable metal guards. The conveyor then moves the tubs through an area lined with coarse horsehair brushes before reaching the discharge area, where the employee was working. The employee was drilling a hole behind the metal guarding when their right hand went into the horsehair brush area and contacted a saw blade, resulting in a laceration on the back of their right hand that required surgery.

An employee was taking a part out of a press. The press's injector pin came down on his right big toe, crushing it. He was hospitalized.

An employee was cleaning saw dust off of a straight line rip saw after turning it off when his fingers contacted the blade that was still spinning, resulting in the amputations of the left middle and index fingertips to the first knuckle.

An employee was fusing two HDPE pipes in a machine when the machine amputated his left index and middle fingertips.

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.