Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at LSC COMMUNICATIONS US LLC, 1005 Commercial Drive, OWENSVILLE, MISSOURI 65066
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
Employees were looking at an intake fan problem on a press. One employee was testing the tension on a belt when his right index finger was caught between the belt and the pulley. He suffered a partial amputation to the finger.
Two employees were loading a roll of paper into a printing press. The decking moved forward as part of the process, and an employee slipped and fell into the resulting opening. The employee suffered a broken tibia.
An employee was removing a jammed bundle from a conveyor when their finger was pulled by a sheet metal guide. The employee sustained an amputation of the right ring fingertip.
An LSC Communications security guard was performing security checks throughout the facility while operating a three-wheeled electric cart. The cart struck a vertical steel I-beam, causing the employee to continue forward and contact the edge of the I-beam and then fall to the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized with lacerations on the forehead and nose, and fractures to the forehead and right cheek bone.
An employee was placing a belt back on the track when the machine cycled and caught the employee's right index finger between the side of the pulley and the stationary table top resulting in amputation above the first knuckle. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.
An employee was hosing down and cleaning a concrete curb machine when the hose got caught and his hand was pulled into the auger of the machine, resulting in fractures and amputations of the right ring and little fingers.
An employee was using a machine to fill bags with birdseed. The employee was clearing a stuck bag under the machine when the bag cutter amputated the employee's fingertip.
A temporary employee was helping an operator remove jammed laminations from a press machine when their right ring finger got pinched between the laminations and the brake of the chute, resulting in a fingertip amputation.
An employee had just serviced a radiator on a concrete machine. During the final check on the machine, the employee was adjusting a hose when a fan caught his right index finger. The finger was amputated at the second knuckle.
Two employees were using a water hose to unclog a heart and liver separator machine. The machine was turned on while one employee's hand was inside it, and an auger under it amputated the tip of his right index finger. He was hospitalized.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 323117)
An employee was operating a press and manually feeding paper into the press when their right hand was caught in the press, resulting in several broken bones. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was stepping off a forklift when they bumped the directional switch causing the forklift to roll forward and crush the employee's toe. The toe was partially amputated.
An employee was setting up a board-cutting machine when their right hand was caught in the machine. The employee sustained a crush injury to the hand that involved the tendons.
An employee was making routine adjustments to a machine when their left hand slipped and became caught in a gear. The employee's ring finger was partially amputated.
An employee was removing a hickey from the back of a web press. The employee's rag was pulled into the press, which in turn pulled in his left fingers between the plate and water form cylinder. The employee suffered amputation of the left thumb and degloving of the left hand.
An employee was readjusting a safety hook to remove hardware from gang forms when his feet slipped. He fell to the ground, resulting in a broken left arm and wrist.
An employee was on a step ladder in a store aisle, making room on shelving for merchandise. She fell from the step ladder to the floor, suffering two fractures in her left leg. She was hospitalized, requiring surgery.
An employee was closing the side cargo door to a company van. The tip of his finger got caught between the door and the door jamb, resulting in a partial amputation.
An employee lost his footing while climbing an inclined ladder. He stumbled down one step and was able to stabilize himself by holding the railing and twisting his body, but he suffered an internal abdominal injury and was hospitalized.