SGL Carbon, LLC - Saint Marys

An employee was operating a radial arm saw when a wood board became lodged in the saw. As the employee went to dislodge the board, it moved and pushed his right hand into the blade, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee was changing out a standard chuck and installing a collet chuck on a small twin spindle lathe. While attempting to take off the first chuck, the employee stepped on the foot pedal, which actuates the hydraulic draw tube and separates the chuck from the face plate. He placed his fingers between the chuck and face plate and attempted to unthread the chuck from the draw tube. While he was unthreading the chuck, the lathe was activated via the foot pedal. The chuck then drew back toward the face plate, crushing his fingertips. His left middle, ring, and pinky fingertips were amputated.

An employee was acting as a fire watch within the engine compartment of a vessel observing the cutting of the hull on the outside. The fire suppression system activated and the employee was trapped inside of the compartment. The employee suffered oxygen deprivation and was hospitalized.

While in a manhole, investigating water complaints from cemetery visitors, an employee lost consciousness due to lack of oxygen.

At about 2:00 p.m. on July 18, 2018, an employee had opened the top hatch of a heat exchanger hopper and was changing an air filter. The employee became unresponsive due to a lack of oxygen, possibly because nitrogen gas had displaced the oxygen.

An employee was monitoring and collecting mussels in a river when she became low on oxygen and lost consciousness underwater. She was hospitalized.

On May 30, 2017, an employee was diving to a depth of 82-84 feet with a team in the Gulf of Mexico. He was using an oxygen tank, got tangled in the line and the air shut off. He was found unconscious by other divers and was brought to the surface were he was resuscitated.

An employee was working on a snow plow, trying to free a spring that had become struck when their finger was pinched in the springs on the snow plow. When the spring released, it amputated the fingertip.

Employees were making a grade change to a spray dryer system. Water pressure blew a strainer lid off as one employee was trying to open it; it struck the employee's face, causing fractures to their face and forehead on the left side as well as a cut above the left eye.

An employee was was descending from an excavator. The employee's hands slipped and they jumped, landing on their left foot and suffering a compound fracture to the lower left leg.

An employee was operating a radial arm saw when a wood board became lodged in the saw. As the employee went to dislodge the board, it moved and pushed his right hand into the blade, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

While walking around a forklift, an employee tripped on its forks and fell on the floor, sustaining a dislocated shoulder.

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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.