Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at GK Industries, Inc, 4021 Garfield Road, MOUNT JOY, PENNSYLVANIA 17552
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was attempting to retrieve cut stock from the back of a metal shear when the shear cycled and amputated three of his left fingers.
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 333512)
An employee was moving an 800-pound roll from one department to the next with a crane. The tube cut the strap and the roll fell onto the employee's left foot. The foot was fractured and the employee was hospitalized.
An employee was working on an industrial lathe when the tail stock on a 17,000-pound reel spool broke and the spool dropped onto his leg, crushing it. The employee was hospitalized.
On March 20, 2020, an employee was reaching to flip a tube when their arm was caught by the chuck and lacerated. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery.
An employee was getting ready to grind a part. The lathe (rotating roll) was turned off but was still spinning when the employee's hand was pulled into a pinch point between the roll and grinding wheel, amputating a finger.
An employee was running the horizontal band saw. As the employee was pulling out the piece of cut tubing the saw blade caught the employee's glove and pulled his hand onto the cutting surface under the blade. The employee sustained the amputation of four fingers from his left hand.
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.