Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Golub Corporation, 370 Miracle Mile Road, LEBANON, NEW HAMPSHIRE 03766
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was cutting ribs using a band saw. While turning to get more product, the employee contacted the band saw blade, suffering a right index finger amputation.
An employee was cutting a piece of bone-in pork on a band saw and went to adjust the meat when their left middle finger contacted the blade and was lacerated/amputated.
An employee was cleaning the seafood department and slipped on a wet floor. The employee hit their face on the edge of a three-bay sink and fell onto their arm. The employee was hospitalized for a broken arm that required surgery and a broken tooth.
An employee was operating a pallet jack. As he tried to turn around in an alley, his left foot slipped off the platform and became stuck between the platform and a shelving upright. He suffered a hairline fracture to the ankle. The incident took place during a training activity.
An employee was delivering flowers to a customer's house. He tripped on a gap between the porch and the entrance to the house and suffered a broken hip.
An employee was going to a store to get balloons for an in-store event when she tripped on the sidewalk and fell, hitting her shoulder on a brick pillar and sustaining shoulder fractures.
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.
Employee 1 was investigating a gas odor. While employee 1 was checking the equipment, a gas explosion occurred, resulting in a fire that burned the employee's face. Employee 2 entered the area and a second explosion occurred, causing burns to their face and arms. Employee 2 was hospitalized.
An employee tripped while walking from one store register station to another. Her forehead struck a register, and she suffered fractures to two vertebrae in her neck. She was hospitalized.
An employee was stocking and ordering the meat case on the sales floor when he slipped and fell due to water on the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured ankle and required surgery.
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.