Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at HUTCHENS INDUSTRIES INC., 626 E. Steel St., SEYMOUR, MISSOURI 65746
on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was operating a press and went to clear a jam when his left middle fingertip was amputated.
An employee was running a coil into the die when his hand slipped and contacted the cut-off hole of the die. The employee sustained a partial traumatic transphalangeal amputation of the left middle finger.
The injured employee was working near a co-worker. The co-worker was removing scrap coil from a hopper when it fell out of the hopper and struck the employee, resulting in injuries to the lower left arm, hip, and back, as well as straight-line fractures of the pelvis.
An employee was welding near a bin of parts that was stored at an angle to provide better reach for employees when a fork truck came up behind the bin of parts to move another bin. The forks hit the bin behind the employee and the bin tipped over, hitting and fracturing the employee's leg. The employee was hospitalized.
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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