Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at J. Walter Miller Company, 411 East Chestnut Street, LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA 17602
on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was investigating the chain of a pallet jack that had hung up. The chain pulled tight and amputated the employee's left index fingertip.
An employee was using a powered hand truck to move scrap from a cutoff area to a foundry. The employee's left little finger was rammed into a wall and sustained an open fracture, with amputation of the fingertip.
An employee was operating a forklift and unloading a truck. After the truck was unloaded, the employee got off the forklift and proceeded to adjust the dock plate with a hook tool. The dock plate slipped and the employee went to adjust the plate with their hand when their left middle finger got caught. Their finger was amputated above the first joint.
An employee was rotating a carbide granulator blade when his finger was caught between the blade and a stationary part of the machine. The employee's right middle finger was partially amputated and they suffered an avulsion to the right ring fingertip.
An employee was using a CNC metal lathe machine in manual mode to check that the thread blocking tool made contact with the jaws. As the employee was manually spinning the spindle, his index fingertip was crushed between the spindle's jaws and the grooving insert, resulting in a fingertip amputation.
During a material handling operation, an employee's fingertip was caught under an air conditioning unit as the unit was lowered onto a cart. The employee's fingertip was amputated.
An employee was removing a bolt from a tractor hub when their right index finger was caught between the hub and the frame. The employee's fingertip was crushed and the employee was hospitalized.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 331525)
An employee tried to catch a metal casting being laid down with chains by rigging equipment. The casting started to slip in the chains, causing the employee's left middle finger to be pinched by the chains and resulting in an amputation down to the first knuckle.
An employee was on a roof with contractors getting estimates for roof repairs. The employee fell through the roof, struck an air compressor during the fall, and landed on a wooden pallet and the concrete floor approximately 20 feet below. The employee sustained broken vertebrae and a punctured lung.
On January 31, 2020, an employee was tearing down a die and emptying molten metal from a mold when the molten metal contacted the employee, burning his right leg and ankle. He was hospitalized.
An employee was using a powered hand truck to move scrap from a cutoff area to a foundry. The employee's left little finger was rammed into a wall and sustained an open fracture, with amputation of the fingertip.
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.