Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Gutchess Hardwoods Inc., 185 Devereux Drive, LATROBE, PENNSYLVANIA 15650
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
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Final narrative
An employee was working on the green stacker laying sticks. As the last course of lumber was coming towards the employee, a paper ticket blew off. The employee pulled the e-stop and picked up the ticket and handed it to another employee (the injured employee) who contacted the machine amputating the right ring finger.
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.
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An employee had been warming his hands at a stationary heater near the stacker operator. He was by the rear passenger-side of his parked forklift when another forklift reversed and struck him. His left leg was pinned between the two forklifts and he sustained a fractured fibula.
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.
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