Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Multiple traumatic injuries and disorders, n.e.c.
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Zoresco Ohio Inc., 1 Acron Drive, OAKWOOD VILLAGE, OHIO 44146
on — Multiple traumatic injuries and disorders, n.e.c., affecting the hand(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was pushing a cart with an equipment body into a paint booth when the wheel of the cart caught a raised grate in the paint booth floor. The raised grate caused the equipment body to roll onto the employee's hands, causing internal crushing injuries on the right hand and severe lacerations on the left hand. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was operating a forklift and unloading a truck. After the truck was unloaded, the employee got off the forklift and proceeded to adjust the dock plate with a hook tool. The dock plate slipped and the employee went to adjust the plate with their hand when their left middle finger got caught. Their finger was amputated above the first joint.
An employee was rotating a carbide granulator blade when his finger was caught between the blade and a stationary part of the machine. The employee's right middle finger was partially amputated and they suffered an avulsion to the right ring fingertip.
An employee was using a CNC metal lathe machine in manual mode to check that the thread blocking tool made contact with the jaws. As the employee was manually spinning the spindle, his index fingertip was crushed between the spindle's jaws and the grooving insert, resulting in a fingertip amputation.
During a material handling operation, an employee's fingertip was caught under an air conditioning unit as the unit was lowered onto a cart. The employee's fingertip was amputated.
An employee was removing a bolt from a tractor hub when their right index finger was caught between the hub and the frame. The employee's fingertip was crushed and the employee was hospitalized.
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