Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Plain'n Fancy Kitchens, Inc., 2550 Stiegel Pike, SCHAEFFERSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA 17088
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
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Final narrative
An employee was assembling cabinet doors using a large clamp when his finger was crushed between the clamp and the cabinet. The employee sustained a closed fracture to the tuft of the distal phalanx and a traumatic amputation to a finger.
An employee was performing a rip cut on a table saw when he cut his left thumb approximately 1/2 inch above his knuckle but below the nail. The guard was not in place at the time.
An employee was using a saw to cut a piece of concrete when the piece gave way and pushed the saw into the employee's leg. The employee's leg was lacerated, requiring stitches and hospitalization.
An employee was grinding some hardfacing on a bulldozer blade when the 9-inch grinder kicked back and lacerated his left leg above the knee. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.
An employee was operating a rotating tool to place thread protectors on the end of pipe. Her left hand was on the rotating part of the tool when the tool engaged, resulting in a left forearm fracture and a thumb laceration.
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An employee was ripping a 1/2-inch board on a table saw. As the drop piece fell, so did the push stick, and it was pulled into the blade along with the employee's right index finger. The employee's finger was partially amputated. The machine was not guarded at the time of the incident.
An employee was running a piece of wood through a jointer machine. The wood caught and stopped moving, but the employee's left hand kept moving and contacted the blade. The employee suffered a partial amputation to the little finger, below the first knuckle.
An employee was operating a chop saw to cut weather stripping material and suffered amputations to their left thumb and index finger. The employee's middle finger was also lacerated.
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.