Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Inc., 1425 Eden Road, YORK, PENNSYLVANIA 17402
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was trying to remove a wheel from a rear wheel manipulator. The air cylinder holding pressure to the wheel became stuck. The employee worked to remove the wheel while the power was off; it was then turned on, and the employee's left little finger was amputated to the first knuckle. The machine was not locked/tagged out at the time of the incident.
AmputationFinger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.Special process machinery, n.e.c.
More severe injuries at Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Inc.
An employee was servicing an automated guided cart, reported to have a hydraulic leak. The cart was on a lift about 6 feet off the ground. The employee reached under the raised platform and disconnected the hydraulic line, at which point the unit came down on their left hand and right index and middle fingers. They suffered a dislocation to the left wrist and lacerations to the right index and middle fingers. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.
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.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 336991)
An employee was servicing an automated guided cart, reported to have a hydraulic leak. The cart was on a lift about 6 feet off the ground. The employee reached under the raised platform and disconnected the hydraulic line, at which point the unit came down on their left hand and right index and middle fingers. They suffered a dislocation to the left wrist and lacerations to the right index and middle fingers. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.
An employee was troubleshooting a machining cell. As they were exiting the machining cell, the employee fell backward and sustained fractured vertebrae and ribs.
An employee was walking to their vehicle in the parking lot after their shift. While scraping ice from their windshield, the employee slipped and fell on ice, resulting in a fractured right hip.
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.