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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

LSC COMMUNICATIONS

Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at LSC COMMUNICATIONS, 850 West Park Road, UNION, MISSOURI 63084 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..

An employee was operating a machine when it amputated several fingers on his right hand.

Amputation Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c. Machinery, unspecified

LSC Communications

An employee tripped on a loose piece of strapping and fell to the floor, suffering a broken hip. The employee was hospitalized.

LSC Communications

At about 6:00 p.m. on December 21, 2018, an employee was trying to clear a jam in a hopper. The push plate moved while his right hand was in the hopper, resulting in a crushing injury to his right index finger. The finger was surgically amputated.

LSC Communications

On September 14, 2018, an employee was checking oil levels in units. While manually rotating a unit's door, the employee's left ring finger was caught between the door and a water coupler, resulting in an amputation.

LSC Communications

A bindery operator's finger was caught in a belt and pulley while pointing to the reflector on the line. The tip of his right index finger was amputated.

LSC Communications

An employee was removing a piece of paper that was stuck in an offset press when the employee's finger was pinched in the rotating rollers, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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Pall Corporation

An employee was operating a machine when a wire pulled his right glove resulting in amputation of the index and middle fingertips.

Koch Foods of Cincinnati

An employee was grinding chicken when their right index fingertip was caught in the grinder and amputated.

Stella-Jones Corporation

An employee was sharpening peeler blades when their shirt was caught in the grinding wheel. The employee sustained tendon damage and a crushed right hand.

Mack Manufacturing, Inc.

An employee was passing through a large metal door when the door closed on the employee, resulting in a cracked rib.

Nutmeg Container Corporation

An employee was preparing to cut lumber on a panel saw when the clamp engaged and caught the employee's left middle finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Shutterfly

The injured employee was talking to another employee on the ornament line. She then turned around and tripped over a mail tote. As she fell, she grabbed onto a support pole for the building and sustained a dislocated left shoulder.

Shutterfly

An employee's right thumb became caught between two rollers on a coating machine. The thumb was crushed and fractured.

Taylor Publishing Company

An employee was operating a cutting machine. It jammed. The employee was clearing the jam when the machine's blade amputated the tip of his thumb.

COMMAND WEB - MISSOURI

An employee had just finished changing the blade on a bindery machine. He lifted the area where the blade is to inspect it, when he noticed glue on the Allen head. The employee went to scrape it off and the blade partially amputated his right middle finger, and cut his right index, ring, and little fingers. The machine was running at the time.

Simon & Schuster, Inc.

An employee was loading boxes onto a conveyor when the conveyor stopped. When the conveyor belt restarted, it struck the employee's right hand, resulting in a partial amputation of the right little finger.

WADDELL CONCRETE INC.

An employee was readjusting a safety hook to remove hardware from gang forms when his feet slipped. He fell to the ground, resulting in a broken left arm and wrist.

Dollar Tree

An employee was on a step ladder in a store aisle, making room on shelving for merchandise. She fell from the step ladder to the floor, suffering two fractures in her left leg. She was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Corrigan Brothers Inc

An employee was closing the side cargo door to a company van. The tip of his finger got caught between the door and the door jamb, resulting in a partial amputation.

Plumb Supply Company

An employee lost his footing while climbing an inclined ladder. He stumbled down one step and was able to stabilize himself by holding the railing and twisting his body, but he suffered an internal abdominal injury and was hospitalized.

JRI INDUSTRIES

An employee was manipulating dies on a brake press. The press caught and crushed the employee's right forearm, resulting in hospitalization.