Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Refuse Materials, Inc., 1 Hilltop Plaza, KITTANNING, PENNSYLVANIA 16201
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was helping to set up skates to move a gondola. The bar slipped off the rack and the gondola leg fell and crushed the employee's right index finger, resulting in amputation at the first knuckle.
An employee was working to pull open the stuck door of a concrete slurry container. The door sprang open and struck the employee in the lower jaw, causing a laceration and fracture to the jaw.
An employee started a piece of equipment that was in a container with a propane leak. When the equipment started, it ignited the propane in the container and caused an explosion, burning the employee.
Three employees were polishing the concrete floor in the back break room and were overcome with carbon monoxide (CO) from the compressor that was used in that room. One employee was hospitalized for CO poisoning.
An employee was unloading 30-foot 2-inch barrels from a pan holding about 20 barrels. The barrels tipped over, striking and breaking both of the employee's lower legs.
An employee was in a sandblasting area, preparing the surface of a plate heat exchanger frame for painting. The frame fell on the employee, who suffered fractures to vertebrae, the neck, pelvis, and rib cage; and punctured lungs.
An employee was mixing self-leveling cement when his hand was caught in a mixer. He suffered a partial amputation to his left middle finger, as well as a laceration to his buttocks.
An employee was working to pull open the stuck door of a concrete slurry container. The door sprang open and struck the employee in the lower jaw, causing a laceration and fracture to the jaw.
An electric crew was unloading a lighting instrument rack (approximately 400-500 pounds) from a box truck when one of the wheels rolled off the lift gate and the rack tipped over, falling onto the injured employee's right leg. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured tibia and required surgery.
An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.
An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.
An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.
An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.