Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Igloo Products Corp., 777 Igloo Rd., KATY, TEXAS 77494
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
The employee was working with a plastic lid press machine used for installing lids on cooler products. The employee was clearing a stuck plastic lid and their hand was caught in a pinch point resulting in a partial amputation to a finger.
An employee was operating a foam fixture machine and placing lids in the working area when the top of the blow mold machine crushed the employee's right index and middle fingers resulting in surgical amputation of both fingers. The machine was unguarded at the time of the incident.
An employee was gathering tools to clean the screw barrel part of the molding machine when something fell on top of the employee's left-foot, big toe. The employee was hospitalized and had 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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