Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Mannington Mills Inc., 75 MANNINGTON MILLS RD, SALEM, NEW JERSEY 08079
on — Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures, affecting the Hand(s), except finger(s).
Final narrative
An employee was performing startup activities on a print line. The employee was scraping dry ink from the bottom of the doctor blade assembly with a putty knife. The back of her right hand came in contact with the doctor blade, which penetrated her cut-resistant work glove and caused a laceration injury to the back of her hand with damage to a tendon. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.
On March 13, 2024, two employees got into an altercation where the injured employee received multiple punches to the head and was knocked unconscious. They were hospitalized with a cracked skull.
An employee was clearing a jam on a line that had caused a belt to come off a roller. The employee slipped and fell 7 feet to the cement floor below, suffering a broken vertebra.
An employee was working in a winding station and applying tape to a cardboard core (on a rotating spindle). The employee's gloved hand made contact with the double sided tape pulling her arm into the spindle. The employee sustained multiple fractures to the arm and ribs resulting in hospitalization.
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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