Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Crushing injuries
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Charles Schillinger Co., 1329 Ford Road, BENSALEM, PENNSYLVANIA 19020
on — Crushing injuries, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
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Final narrative
An employee was operating a shear to cut metal and crushed their fingers under the sheet metal hold downs resulting in injuries that required surgery.
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 332116)
An employee was working to remove scrap from the vicinity of a scrap shaker tray located at the rear of a press when she suffered a laceration and partial amputation of her right index finger.
An employee was loading a die plate onto a rack when the plate tipped down and pinched his finger, lacerating it. The employee sustained an amputation.
An employee was placing a flattener die on a turret press. The die broke loose and fell into the turret. The employee's right hand was pinched between the turret and the die, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger.
An employee was un-banding metal blanks from pallets. He stepped on a pallet where the boards of the pallet overhung the runners, causing him to lose his footing and fall to the floor. The employee sustained injury to his left hip requiring hospitalization.
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.