Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Wilson Trailer Company, 3602 Broadway Avenue, YANKTON, SOUTH DAKOTA 57078
on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).
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Final narrative
An employee was trying to manually fit a side panel for a livestock trailer when his finger was pinched between the side panel sheets causing a 1 cm amputation of the employee's left middle fingertip.
HospitalizedAmputationFingertip(s)Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
An employee was using a hand brake to bend material for an outside rail on a trailer repair job. The employee released the clamp lever to place the material between the brake's upper and lower jaws. The lever snapped back, catching the employee's left ring finger against the stop block on the back of the handle. The fingertip was amputated.
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 336214)
An employee was working to dislodge a small piece of wood that had become stuck in a wood molder. The employee's glove became entangled in the machine's cutter head and the employee suffered a partial amputation to a finger on the right hand.
An employee was rolling a piece of structural channel on a roller table when the channel collided with steel tubing that was sitting on the roller table. One of the employee's fingers was hanging down over the piece of channel, and when it collided with the tube, their fingertip was severed. Approximately half of an inch of the employee's fingertip was amputated.
On November 21, 2024, an employee was operating a punch press running stone guard brackets. The press cycled while they were placing a part into the die, crushing their right hand. The employee was hospitalized with crushing injuries to their ring finger and an amputation of the little fingertip, and they required surgery.
An employee was inspecting and photographing a trailer unit when his left index finger was pinched between a hardware bar and the floor, resulting in a partial amputation.
An employee was moving a tensile strength test device with a dolly. The device fell from the dolly onto the employee's right leg, causing a compound fracture.
An employee was walking past a crossover conveyor when a ramp came down and hit them in the back. The employee sustained a broken back vertebra, as well as a concussion, and was hospitalized.
An employee was using a hook tool to pull a pallet onto the lift gate of a tractor trailer. The hook detached from the underside of the pallet, causing the employee to fall backward off the lift gate. The employee landed on the concrete parking lot about 5 feet below, suffering fractures to the skull and two thoracic vertebrae.
An employee was walking on a truss table when he lost his balance and fell approximately 3 feet to the floor. The employee sustained a dislocated and fractured left ankle.