Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at GILSTER MARY LEE, 305 W. WASHINGTON STREET, MOMENCE, ILLINOIS 60954
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was folding cartons to put them on a conveyor when his right middle and ring fingers were caught and amputated in a belt and pulley. The belt and pulley were unguarded at the time.
An employee was loading bags on a pallet. The employee's leg became caught in wrapping material and the employee fell to the ground, suffering a broken tibia.
An employee was cleaning on the third-floor mezzanine when they fell through an access hatch and landed on the second-floor mezzanine. The employee sustained a broken collar bone, a broken rib, a possibly broken vertebra, and a brain hematoma.
An employee was operating a bagging machine on the production line. When she changed the bags, her finger was caught in the jaw assembly and her left index fingertip was amputated.
An employee was pushing wet corn meal down into the throat of a twin screw cooker with his left hand when his fingers were caught in the ingoing nip point of the twin screws. He suffered amputation injuries to four fingers (excluding the thumb) on his left hand.
On December 19, 2023, an employee was setting up a copper wire drawing machine when his left ring finger was pinched between a copper wire and a machine part. The employee's finger was partially amputated.
An employee was checking the gusset seal on a machine. He moved to the next cross sealer and the machine activated, causing an amputation to a left-hand finger. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was evaluating a coiling machine to verify that the blade was present inside it. The machine's weld function was activated, and the machine crushed the employee's fingers, resulting in the amputation of the left middle and ring fingers.
An employee was driving a forklift in reverse to move materials when the forklift ran into a skid that was up on a rack. A finger on the employee's right hand was crushed between the forklift support bar and the skid, resulting in an amputation to the finger.
An employee was climbing in the spreader area to remove a pasta jam when his right little finger was cut by the rotary cut-off knife. The employee sustained a laceration and fracture, resulting in an amputation.
An employee was cleaning accumulated pasta from a jammed regrind machine. The employee's right ring fingertip was caught in the machine and was amputated.
An employee was retrieving a stuck cup from a feeder machine. The machine's cup cylinder arm returned to its "down" position, catching and breaking the employee's right forearm.
An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.
An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.