Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Leading Technologies, Inc., 1153 Industrial Park Road, LEECHBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 15656
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was operating a table saw. The sawblade caused an amputation to the employee's right index finger.
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.
An employee was cutting plastic shipping material using a manual tabletop sliding cutter. They were holding the plastic down with one hand while using the other hand to move the sliding cutter. As the plastic gathered and jammed the sliding cutter, they held the plastic down to the table. The sliding cutter then moved and contacted their left middle finger that was underneath the table, resulting in a fingertip amputation.
An employee was using an electric tape dispenser to get a piece of tape when they sustained a 1 centimeter x 1 centimeter fingertip amputation from the cutter.
An employee's hand came into contact with a pinch point on a stepper (a machine that moved wafers during semiconductor manufacturing), and the machine degloved one of the employee's fingers to the knuckle. The finger was later partially amputated.
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.