Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Algus Packaging, Inc., 1212 E. Taylor St., DEKALB, ILLINOIS 60115
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was working at a machine that labels thermal formed-plastic blisters. The employee went to grab the blisters that were falling into the chute of the rack when a metal pick head on the machine lacerated their left ring finger, resulting in a partial amputation.
An employee closed a truck driver's door while standing on the dock plate and the driver's trailer plate. The dock plate started lifting and lowering and caught his foot/ankle between the trailer door/plate and the dock plate. The employee sustained a fractured left leg.
An employee was operating a strip saw. As the employee shut off the saw, their right index and middle fingertips were amputated by the blade before it came to a complete stop.
An employee was using a table saw to cut a piece of wood for wall framing. The wood jumped, causing the employee's hand to move toward the saw, amputating their left index finger and causing a laceration on their hand.
An employee was operating a trim saw. While trying to free a jammed board she had just cut, she came into contact with the running saw blade, which amputated her right thumb.
An employee was using straps to secure a load inside a transport trailer. The employee was standing on a stack of finished goods that was three pallets high. Each pallet was 16 inches high. He was walking from the stack of three pallets onto a stack of two pallets when he lost his balance and fell onto another stack of finished goods (that was two pallets high) and then landed on the floor of the trailer. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs.
An employee was unclogging a resin sifting machine. The rotary sifter's automatic system activated and the sifter blade struck the employee's fingertip, causing an avulsion. The fingertip was medically amputated.
An employee was helping to remove a roll of plastic from a line when the tail stock on the machine snapped back and caught the employee's right middle fingertip, resulting in a partial amputation.
An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.
An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.