Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages LLC, 111 Fairview Park Dr. #1, ELMSFORD, NEW YORK 10523
on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).
Final narrative
At 7:10 a.m. on January 24, 2023, an employee had just cleared a jam on an empty pallet conveyor and was walking back to the palletizer when he noticed that one of the chains conveying the empty pallets was not aligned on its track. The machine was paused; he picked up the chain about 8 inches from the sprocket with his left hand. The conveyor then continued its cycle and his left-hand fingers were pulled into the chain and sprocket. He suffered three broken fingers and an amputation to the little fingertip.
An employee was delivering beverages when he fell from the truck's liftgate to the ground. The employee sustained a fractured wrist, a dislocated shoulder, and bruised ribs.
An employee jumped off a delivery truck's lift gate to avoid a collision with a product. He rolled his ankle on the ground, breaking it in three places.
An employee was backing a loaded pallet jack out of a trailer onto a lift gate. When the employee applied the brakes, the pallet jack kept rolling. To keep from being run over, he jumped off the lift gate to the ground. He suffered a strained/sprained lower back, two broken left-side ribs, and a broken left wrist.
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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