TECUMSEH, KANSAS—
Futamura USA, Inc.
Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Futamura USA, Inc., 6000 SE 2nd St, TECUMSEH, KANSAS 66542 on — Fractures, affecting the arm(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee working as a finishing operator was using sand paper to clean a spindle roll on a slitter machine. The employee's arm was caught in the spinning rollers. The employee sustained a compound fracture to the right arm requiring hospitalization and surgery.
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TECUMSEH, KANSAS—
Futamura USA, Inc.
An employee was operating a stand-up forklift to move a pallet of product that was sitting on the floor in an aisle of the finishing warehouse next to metal racking. The forklift cab went under the middle shelf and his torso became caught between the metal shelf (at his back) and the forklift steering control stick (at his front). He was hospitalized with possible fractured ribs.
TECUMSEH, KANSAS—
Futamura USA, Inc.
An employee was kneeling on the padded work platform of a casting machine, reaching to pull slack out of a film web being re-threaded through the machine. He lost his balance and slipped, and his right hand, wrist, and forearm were burned in the 90 C hot water bath.
TECUMSEH, KANSAS—
Futamura USA, Inc.
An employee had climbed onto a machine platform and gotten down on his hands and knees to look for the cause of a defect in film that was running on a slitting machine. He slipped and his left hand went into the machine, where it was caught between a roller and a bar. He suffered broken tendons in the hand and wrist.
TECUMSEH, KANSAS—
Futamura USA, Inc.
At approximately 0900, an employee was trying to move a pulp roll back into position on a pulp feed rack. The pulp roll slid off the rack onto the floor and caught the employee's right arm against the rack. The employee was hospitalized with a broken arm that required surgery.
TECUMSEH, KANSAS—
Futamura USA, Inc.
An employee was taking lab waste to a special waste dumpster. The employee fell through grating adjacent to the special waste dumpster approximately 4 feet to the concrete floor and sustained broken bones in both feet.
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