Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Charter Next Generation, llc, 230 Industrial Drive, LEXINGTON, OHIO 44904
on — Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries, affecting the Hand(s), finger(s) unspecified.
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Final narrative
On February 9, 2024, at 1:30 a.m., an employee was using a rag to clean the nip roller of a print press when their rag got caught between the rollers, causing their right hand to become caught in the rollers. The employee suffered crush injuries that included nerve and tendon injuries requiring hospitalization and surgery. The press was energized at the time of the incident.
On April 30, 2022, an employee was removing a finished roll of film from the shaft of a winder. As the employee manually pulled the 80-pound roll, his right ring finger was pinched between the cardboard core of the roll and an indention from a missing shaft plug on the steel shaft. The employee sustained an amputation to the right ring finger that included the fingernail.
A temporary employee turned off a planer machine, opened the housing, and began clearing a jam. The machine's spinning blade caught his right hand and degloved the index finger.
An employee was using a tool to remove a rag from a roll on the tube mill. The roll pulled the tool and the employee's right hand into the roll, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger and a fracture to the index finger.
A production sanitation employee was pre-rinsing an incline conveyor and noticed cheese stuck between the belt idler. The employee went to remove the cheese and their glove got caught and pulled their left forearm into the conveyor. The employee's arm was fractured. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.
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