Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at US Boiler Company Incorporated, 2920 Old Tree Drive, LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA 17603
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was operating the boring mill and amputated the left ring finger at the first knuckle.
The employee was installing block on a V8 line. The employee had been using a lifting chain and shipping nipple to place a V13 block on a shipping skid. The employee's hand got caught between the lifting chain and shipping nipple when the weight shifted and the chain slipped. The tip of the employee's left ring finger was amputated between the end and the first knuckle and the left middle finger was fractured.
An employee was sharpening peeler blades when their shirt was caught in the grinding wheel. The employee sustained tendon damage and a crushed right hand.
An employee was preparing to cut lumber on a panel saw when the clamp engaged and caught the employee's left middle finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 332410)
An employee was using a vertical band saw to cut a thick piece of rubber material. While being cut, the material shifted, causing the employee s right hand to contact the moving blade. The employee's thumb was amputated below the knuckle. The employee was hospitalized, undergoing surgery.
An employee was laying underneath a cooler block while jacking up the tie bar to secure it to horses when the cooler block fell off the horses and onto the employee, resulting in several fractures to the pelvis, clavicle, wrist and tailbone.
An employee was climbing a ladder on a water cooling tower when they fell approximately 15 to 20 feet to the ground, resulting in a fractured left elbow.
An employee was preparing to sand a metal shaft that was loaded into a lathe when his left arm became entangled in the machine. The employee sustained several broken bones.
An employee was removing the banding from a load of mechanical supports, when one fell forward onto his left leg. The employee sustained a laceration to the lower leg 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.