Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at On Site Ag Services Inc., 3309 East 1st Street, LYONS, GEORGIA 30436
on — Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds, affecting the fingertip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was monitoring an automated onion bagging machine. The employee noticed a piece of scrap wood stuck in the staple machine. After he removed it, the machine cycled and a staple went through his left middle fingertip. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery.
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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