Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at USA Pork Packers Inc, 328 S. WYOMING ST., HAZLETON, PENNSYLVANIA 18201
on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was cutting meat with a meat saw. The saw amputated the tip of the employee's left middle finger.
On July 15, 2019, at approximately 5:15 PM, an employee was cutting meat on a bandsaw. The employee's glove got caught on the bandsaw blade and pulled his left thumb into the blade resulting in the amputation of the thumb tip.
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.
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An employee was cleaning a manure pit while in the elevated bucket of a bucket loader. While they were disconnecting a rope that holds the manure pump in place, the employee misstepped and fell 4 feet into the cement pit. The employee struck his head and sustained a forehead laceration and head trauma.
At 2:30 p.m. on October 13, 2021, an employee was on top of a pump truck, replacing the cone insert on the cyclone tank. He fell about 11 feet, striking a mounted toolbox before hitting the ground. He suffered a broken right leg below the knee, a compressed lower back vertebra, and a contusion to the right buttock. He was hospitalized.
An employee was attaching a powered industrial truck to a trailer in a parking lot. The employee slipped on ice and fell to the concrete, suffering a broken right arm.
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.