Injured by object pushed or pulled by person · Amputations involving bone loss
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Mazda Toyota Manufacturing USA, Inc., 9000 Greenbrier Parkway, MADISON, ALABAMA 35756
on — Amputations involving bone loss, affecting the Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).
Final narrative
An employee had been driving a tugger. They got out of the tugger and walked around the end of a dolly to pull it into place using the handles on the short end. As the employee pulled the dolly to the designated floor location, their left index finger was pinched between the dolly handle and a structural support column. Their fingertip was amputated to the first knuckle on the first digit.
HospitalizedAmputation Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) Utility carts, hand trucks, dollies
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An employee was sliding an item from a rack onto a dolly. The dolly's gate was still up, so the item could not be pulled onto the dolly. As the employee was lowering the gate with their right hand, their left middle fingertip was caught between the item and the dolly handle. The fingertip was amputated.
An employee was putting a tool into the jobsite box. When he went to shut the lid, it fell on his right middle and ring fingers and amputated the middle fingertip.
An employee was hooking up a set of 28-foot trailers, attaching a converter dolly to the lead trailer's pintle hook. He backed up the lead trailer and parked it a foot from the converter dolly, then lifted the converter dolly and rolled it to the lead trailer to set it onto the hook. The converter dolly kicked up, and the employee's left hand was caught between it and the trailer. He suffered a severe laceration to the palm between the ring finger and middle finger.
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