Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at The Bryce Company, LLC, 450 South Benton St, GEORGETOWN, ARKANSAS 72143
on — Fractures, affecting the foot (feet), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was assisting a new employee with laminator machine startup. The extruder is on a carriage that can be moved along tracks in the floor. As the extruder was being moved into the machine, the injured employee stepped into the area to assist the new employee and then turned to move out of the area. As he turned, his foot was pinned between the extruder carriage and the floor stop, resulting in non-displaced fractures of the second and third metatarsals of the left foot. He was hospitalized.
A machine operator was completing a job change at their machine when a cylinder roller (anilox) did not properly align in the machine. The operator went to the cylinder area to see what was keeping the cylinder from properly aligning. As the operator leaned toward the cylinder to inspect, the cylinder dropped into the correct cradle position. When this occurred, the operator's left hand was positioned between the cylinder and the cradle and their index fingertip was crushed, resulting in a partial amputation.
An employee was putting a cylinder in a deck when the cylinder would not set into the deck properly due to a misaligned bearing. He used a pry bar to raise the cylinder and realign the bearing. He was attempting to align the bearing cap when the pry bar slipped and the cylinder fell, causing the cylinder bearing cap to close on his left index finger. He suffered a left index finger partial distal phalanx amputation.
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An employee was preparing to cut lumber on a panel saw when the clamp engaged and caught the employee's left middle finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.
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