Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Flower Baking Company of Oxford, Inc., 700 Lincoln St., OXFORD, PENNSYLVANIA 19363
on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).
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Final narrative
An employee suffered left index and middle fingertip amputations.
On September 25, 2023, an employee was working in the body department installing doors, hoods, and tailgates. The employee finished their shift and was hospitalized later that evening for a back injury.
An employee was moving a 55-gallon drum of malt liquid weighing 655 pounds. The employee's right middle finger was caught between the drum and a frame, causing a partial fingertip amputation.
An employee was working from a ladder, clearing dough from an overhead conveyor. His left hand was caught in the conveyor system's chain and sprocket, and a finger was amputated above the knuckle.
An employee was trying to remove bread from an outer slicer blade. She swiped at the debris and her left index finger contacted the outside bread slicer blade, amputating her left index fingertip.
An employee was working with a depositor machine when the employee's index finger contacted the depositor, amputating it from the fingertip to the knuckle. The machine was unguarded at the time.
An employee was replacing a magnet on a faulty pump when his left middle fingertip was pinched and lacerated between the magnet and the pump. He was hospitalized and had surgery.
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.