Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at BERKLEY MEDICAL RESOURCES, INC., 700 MOUNTAIN VIEW DRIVE, SMITHFIELD, PENNSYLVANIA 15478
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was operating a machine that prints logos onto fabric materials when the machine began to leak ink. As the employee was attempting to remove ink from the roller using a towel, the rollers caught the towel and pulled her hand into the machine. Her right little finger was crushed and de-gloved. Her finger had to be surgically amputated.
AmputationFinger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.Printing machinery and equipment, unspecified
More severe injuries at BERKLEY MEDICAL RESOURCES, INC.
Two employees were repairing the hydraulic engagement pins on a rented front-end wheel loader. The machine controls were activated to move the attachment pins and an employee's finger was caught between the pins and the bushings. Their right index finger was partially amputated.
An employee was cleaning the conveyor on a piece of equipment when they slipped and their right hand was pulled into the chain sprocket. The employee's fifth fingertip was amputated.
An employee was throwing blankets onto a blanket folding and stacking machine. A blanket got stuck in the machine and she attempted to remove it when the machine contacted her right little finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 314120)
An employee was leaving the facility to go home. They were walking down the front steps, missed the last step, and fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a broken right foot.
An employee was operating a textile processing machine. Fill material was protruding from the feed rollers under the machine; the employee was trying to pull it out when the machine activated and began to pull it back into the feed rollers. The employee's right hand was broken, lacerated, and partially degloved.
An employee was getting labels off a shelf. They went to pull a fiber from a revolving conveyor roller. The roller pulled the fiber taut, causing the fiber to amputate the employee's left thumb pad.
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.