Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Mission Foods, 15 Elmwood Drive, MOUNTAIN TOP, PENNSYLVANIA 18707
on — Fractures, affecting the lower leg(s).
Final narrative
An employee was returning from their car after a break when they slipped on ice and fell in the parking lot. The employee suffered a broken right tibia and fibula and was hospitalized for surgery.
An employee was squatting to inspect a dough mixer. She struck her head and lost her balance, causing her to grab onto a piece of machinery. The machine crushed her right index finger, resulting in an amputation.
An employee was assembling a vertical dough lift machine which required four bolts to assemble. The employee installed the top two bolts. While attempting to align the holes and install the bottom two bolts, the machine shifted and the employee's left little finger was caught in a pinch point resulting in amputation after the second knuckle.
An employee was removing a piece of plastic from a conveyor line when her right hand was caught between the conveyor roller and a nip point, resulting in a right ring fingertip amputation.
An employee tried to clean a roller with a metal tong when the employee's right hand was caught between the roller and the tong, causing an amputation to the index finger.
An employee was working in the forest flagging an area to be harvested. He took a step and his foot slipped on a stick hidden under the leaves, causing him to fall to the ground. He landed on his right foot/lower leg resulting in a fractured tibia.
An employee was inspecting an apartment to ensure it was ready for a new resident to move in. The carpet in the apartment had been recently cleaned and was still wet. As the employee went from the carpet to the tiled floor of the bathroom, they slipped and fell, resulting in a torn left hamstring.
An employee was delivering a letter along a rural carrier route when she stepped on an ice-covered snow drift, slipped, and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a right hip fracture that required surgery.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 311830)
An employee was diagnosing the cause of a rear light malfunction on a forklift when the reverse gear engaged. The forklift moved backward and contacted the employee causing a metatarsal fracture in their left foot and injury to their lower right leg.
An employee was wiping down a shredder machine while it was turned off. After she was finished cleaning, she turned the machine on when the rollers of the machine caught her fingers, resulting in amputations to her index, middle and ring fingers.
Two employees were changing fuses for a fryer. The pump on the fryer was turned off, but the heat exchanger kept running. When the pump was turned back on, hot oil shot toward the filter. The filter box opened and sprayed the two injured employees with hot grease. The employees suffered burns to their backs, shoulders, and arms.
An employee was inserting corn tortillas into a corn cutting machine. The machine's air piston released and came down onto her left thumb, resulting in an amputation.
An employee was clearing an obstruction in a conveyor when his arm was pulled into the rollers of the conveyor. He suffered lacerations to the left arm and was hospitalized.
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.