Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Noah W. Kreider and Sons, LLP, 425 Indian Village Road, MANHEIM, PENNSYLVANIA 17545
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was troubleshooting a manure drive and attempting to change the timing by adjusting the tensioner on the drive chain when the chain caught his fingers, amputating half of his left middle finger and most of his left pinky finger and lacerating his left index and ring fingers. The three-phase switch next to the guard was off at the time.
AmputationFinger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.Plowing, planting, and fertilizing machinery, n.e.c.
More severe injuries at Noah W. Kreider and Sons, LLP
An employee was troubleshooting a problem on a milking carousel when his jacket sleeve was caught on the running drive wheel of the carousel's motor. His right forearm was then crushed and broke, requiring hospitalization and surgery.
An employee was shoveling snow from a low-slope roof when he fell through a skylight approximately 15 feet to the floor below. He was hospitalized with a severe concussion, head laceration, fractured skull, broken ribs, broken pelvic bone, broken left femur, and broken left eye socket.
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.
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An employee was washing and sanitizing an animal food mixer when the paddles pinned the employee's arm against the side wall, resulting in a right hand amputation.
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.