Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. · Cuts, lacerations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at First Quality Tissue, LLC, 904 Woods Ave, LOCK HAVEN, PENNSYLVANIA 17745
on — Cuts, lacerations, affecting the knee(s) and leg(s).
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Final narrative
A forklift operator and two spotters were removing a 600-pound pump from a paper machine's virgin pulper. The pump was being lifted by nylon straps, attached to the tines of the forklift, when it became stuck on a pipe flange. The pump disengaged from the housing and started to swing, striking one of the spotters twice in the right leg. The employee received a laceration to the right thigh and another to the right knee, and was hospitalized.
An employee was ripping paper off a roll. He tripped over a process belt, struck a metal toeboard on a walkway, and landed on his left side. He developed a possible hematoma on his left side and was hospitalized.
An employee slipped and fell on a wet spot of the floor created by condensation on overhead ductwork. The employee suffered a broken right patella and was admitted into the hospital.
An employee was clearing a jam in a lamination glue filter. The pneumatic ball valve actuated, catching the employee's left middle finger and amputating the fingertip.
An employee was replacing a fabric sheet on a paper towel machine. The employee removed a pin on the winch and was checking to see if the machine was lined up when the employee's finger was caught by a moving part. The finger was partially amputated at the middle knuckle.
An employee was working on a line that manufactured two-ply paper towels in the converting area. While attempting to rethread a sheet to create the two-ply, he fingers got pinched between two rollers. He sustained a laceration of the third and fourth digits and a partial amputation of the distal tips; no digits were fully amputated.
A crew was pulling a 4-inch plastic gas pipe off a reel and straightening it for installation. The injured employee stepped up on the trailer to cut the last band holding the pipe in the coil on the reel. As he turned to step off the trailer, the end of the pipe rotated and sprung out of the cage surrounding the coil, striking the employee on the side of the head and knocking him off of the trailer into the roadway. The employee suffered head trauma that required hospitalization.
An employee and a co-worker were performing a pick inside a clear well. They rigged the skid pan that was full of broken concrete. When lifting, the load began to swing toward a wall. The employee tried to stop the skid pan from swinging and was struck by the pan, resulting in fractures to their left hip and wrist.
The employee had just completed refueling a lattice crane that was breaking up material and was winding the fuel hose back into the fuel truck when he was struck by the catwalk/stairs of the crane. The employee was hospitalized with a laceration to his backside, possible internal bleeding, and a broken hip.
An employee was fusing 10-inch black rubber utility pipes together using a pipe fusion machine and could not get the pipes to set correctly. The employee used a nylon strap attached to an excavator to lift one side of a pipe off a steel plate. As his hand was between two pipes, the pipes came back together, partially amputating two of his fingers.
An employee was lifting four bags of a lime blend weighing approximately 10,000 pounds using a crane. The load swung and pinned the employee against a structural I-beam, resulting in fractures to the hip and pelvis.
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Tools and parts were being lowered to the ground from an elevated platform in a 5-gallon bucket. The rope being used to lower the bucket failed; the tools and parts fell and lacerated the left forearm and upper left leg of an employee on the ground.
An employee was tracking an infeed belt on a scrap hogger when their right arm was caught between the belt and a roller. The arm was broken and the employee's shoulder was dislocated. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was working to clear a jam from a paper napkin folder. The ram that advanced the napkins pushed the employee's right arm into the side of the machine, causing several lacerations and a hairline fracture.
An employee was troubleshooting overflowing ink on a printer-slotter machine when their right ring fingertip was caught in a guarded roller, resulting in a partial amputation.
An employee was disconnecting wires in preparation to swap out a refiner motor when they contacted energized equipment and sustained an electrical shock. The employee was hospitalized.
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.