Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Anagnost Investments Inc., 332 Pearl Street, MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE 03104
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was adjusting the cutting height of a 21-inch push mower when the blade lacerated and amputated two of the employee's fingers.
An employee was operating a strip saw. As the employee shut off the saw, their right index and middle fingertips were amputated by the blade before it came to a complete stop.
An employee was using a table saw to cut a piece of wood for wall framing. The wood jumped, causing the employee's hand to move toward the saw, amputating their left index finger and causing a laceration on their hand.
An employee was operating a trim saw. While trying to free a jammed board she had just cut, she came into contact with the running saw blade, which amputated her right thumb.
Employees were replacing a cooling tower fan belt. After the new belt was installed, the injured employee started up the equipment and the belt caught the employee's glove resulting in amputation of the thumb tip.
At approximately 11:15, an employee was stepping up onto a curb in front of the elevator lobby on the G2 level of the garage when he slipped on a wet walkway and fell onto his knees. After he fell, he could not bend his knees or get up. He tore a knee tendon and was hospitalized.
An employee was lowering the bucket of a track loader that contained a grade stake and the grade stake punctured his foot, resulting in hospitalization and surgery.
An employee was using a pike to move a pallet of sugar that was stuck in the powder racking. The employee fell backward, landing on his right leg. The employee's leg was fractured and he was hospitalized.
An employee was working to fix the forks on a forklift when the fork(s) fell on her toes. The second and third toes on her right foot were fractured, lacerated, and required stitches.
An employee was delivering a 65-foot boom lift to a rental customer's construction site. The employee set up the ramp truck in the parking lot adjacent to the construction site. He elevated the boom 4-5 feet to clear a temporary fence. While driving the boom lift off the ramp, the wheels slid to the driver's side of the ramp truck, ultimately sliding off the ramp. The boom lift fell off the side of the truck and rolled onto its side. The employee sustained a fractured clavicle, a dislocated shoulder, separated/fractured ribs, a punctured lung, and a fractured left femur. The employee required surgery.