Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Kerry Ingredients & Flavours, Inc., 160 Terminal Avenue, CLARK, NEW JERSEY 07066
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was cleaning a positive displacement pump. As he was checking for oil on the hose, his finger contacted the shear of the pump and he suffered an amputation.
An employee was attempting to remove a safety block from a machine with a pry bar when the pry bar struck the employee in the face, resulting in lacerations to his face and right eye and requiring surgery to his right eye.
Two employees were repairing the hydraulic engagement pins on a rented front-end wheel loader. The machine controls were activated to move the attachment pins and an employee's finger was caught between the pins and the bushings. Their right index finger was partially amputated.
An employee was cleaning the conveyor on a piece of equipment when they slipped and their right hand was pulled into the chain sprocket. The employee's fifth fingertip was amputated.
An employee was throwing blankets onto a blanket folding and stacking machine. A blanket got stuck in the machine and she attempted to remove it when the machine contacted her right little finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.
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