Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Can Corporation of America, Incorporated, 326 June Avenue, BLANDON, PENNSYLVANIA 19510
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was removing a piece of scrap from the press die head when the machine was jogged for a tool adjustment. The injured employee sustained a partial amputation to the right middle finger.
An employee was performing preventative maintenance on a slitter, and was lubricating the chain and sprocket assembly. As the chain was being cycled forward to reach additional sections, the employee's right index finger was caught and pulled through the sprocket assembly, resulting in a partial amputation.
An employee slipped and fell from a fixed ladder, landing on the ground about 6 feet below and suffering a contusion to the left eye and a laceration to the nose.
An employee was using an air gun to clean the lacquer off a bead tooling machine part when the air gun and employee's left hand were pulled into the machine, partially amputating the middle fingertip. The machine's interlock was in place at the time.
An employee was cleaning the palletizer from the back side. The employee's left pinky finger was crushed between the conveyor cross beam and a pallet resulting in a partial amputation/avulsion. The palletizer was not running at the time.
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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An employee was clearing a jam on a ring press. The press's secondary switch was activated, engaging it. It caught the employee's hand. The employee was hospitalized and sustained the amputation of two fingers. The machine was unguarded at the time of the incident.
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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.