Struck by other falling object n.e.c. · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Dorman Products, Inc., 1300 North Cameron Street, HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 17103
on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).
Final narrative
An employee was lifting a vehicle leaf spring to position it on the press table. A bolt to hold it in position did not line up correctly and as the employee attempted to adjust it, the leaf spring fell on both of the employee's hands resulting in amputation of both index fingertips.
Amputation Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) Axles, suspensions
An employee was reversing a stand-up forklift to transport a load outside the building when the forklift struck a table. The employee struck their left hand and left ankle against the table, and their left foot was pinched between the forklift and the table. The employee sustained fractures to their heel and multiple metatarsals.
An employee was mounting a leaf spring onto a tooling machine when the spring moved. The tension in the spring pulled the employee's left index and middle finger against the backstop of the tooling machine, resulting in amputation of the left index and middle fingers.
The injured employee was assisting five other employees with bracing a wall panel that was being stood up. Another employee slipped on frost on the floor surface. The employees went to evacuate the area in anticipation of the wall panel falling over. The injured employee went to jump through a window opening within the wall panel and their lower half was crushed by the falling wall panel. The employee sustained a fractured pelvis.
An employee was helping to move a 1,300-pound coil on a cart. The steel caster hit a crack in the concrete, the weld holding the caster onto the cart broke, and the coil and cart tipped over onto the employee. He was hospitalized with a laceration on his forehead and a pelvic fracture on his right side.
An employee was attempting to lift a steel beam from a horizontal, stacked position to a vertical position using a crane. They had placed two hooks on the east side of the beam on the flange. As the employee was hoisting the crane, the beam began to shift and pulled the employee forward onto the stack. When the material shifted, the hooks released and the material fell, pinning the employee between the two beams. The employee was hospitalized with soft tissue contusions on their proximal right thigh and interior left thigh.
An employee was moving a tensile strength test device with a dolly. The device fell from the dolly onto the employee's right leg, causing a compound fracture.
An employee was grinding the ends of a metal spring. His hand slipped, and his right index finger contacted the grinding wheel and was lacerated. Part of his fingertip was amputated.
An employee was adjusting a machine in the facility when the flat stock material running through the machine cut his left index fingertip. The employee sustained an amputation to the fingertip.
An employee was placing a bushing into an opening (an eye) at the end of a piece of metal. The employee was holding the bushing with their right hand and engaging the hydraulic press when their glove was pinched between the bottom of the bushing and the metal. The glove was drawn into the eye, and the employee's right index fingertip was pinched and amputated at the first knuckle.
An employee was inspecting leaf springs. They were trying to straighten a spring plate on a vise when their finger was pinched between the vise and the workbench, resulting in an 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.