Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Sampco of Pennsylvania, Inc., 460 Nixon Road, CHESWICK, PENNSYLVANIA 15024
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was operating a punch press in a seated position. As he stood up, the machine cycled, resulting in an amputation to a finger on his right hand.
An employee was sharpening peeler blades when their shirt was caught in the grinding wheel. The employee sustained tendon damage and a crushed right hand.
An employee was preparing to cut lumber on a panel saw when the clamp engaged and caught the employee's left middle finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 323121)
An employee was helping on the end of a book-making line. He was retrieving a stuck book from a book stacker. Components in the stacker amputated his middle finger at the knuckle. He was hospitalized.
On or about December 03, 2015, an employee was lining up paper on the die cutter machine. The machine cycled, and the employee's finger got caught and was amputated between the machine rollers.
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.