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 New Albertson's, Inc., 2530 U.S. 30, OSWEGO, ILLINOIS 60543
on — Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures, affecting the Hand(s), finger(s) unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was cleaning a meat band saw when the saw turned on. She was hospitalized with laceration injuries to her right hand.
An employee was working in the office in the freezer department. They walked out of the office and went to move an electric riding pallet jack. Their right leg became caught between the pallet jack and a parked cart, resulting in a fracture and hospitalization.
An employee was operating a pallet walker. While trying to back up, she was pinned between the pallet jack and racking in an aisle. She suffered a broken pelvis.
An employee was driving a forklift when he struck the forks of a stationary forklift and injured his left ankle tendon, requiring surgery and hospitalization.
On 8/30/16, an employee was delivering product to the store and suffered serious injury to his left thumb when backing up a powered pallet jack into the freezer and striking his thumb on the locking mechanism on the door.
An employee was injured when the PIV he was operating collided with another PIV in a cross section between the aisles. The employee injured his left foot and suffered multiple broken toes.
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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