Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Kunzler and Company Incorporated, 652 Manor Street, LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA 17603
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
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Final narrative
A maintenance employee was pulling on a belt while clearing a labeling jam. When it became free, it caught his fingers in the conveyor belt, amputating the end of his pinky finger and fracturing his ring finger.
An employee was on top of a running machine, cleaning it with a hose, when his left arm became caught between the wall of the machine and the machine's auger. He suffered bruising to his left arm.
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 cutting hams on a band saw. As he reached around the back of the saw to take hold of a piece of ham, the saw blade cut his left middle finger. The finger was medically amputated at the middle knuckle.
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.