Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Traumatic injuries or exposures unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at American Electric Power Service Corporation, Chauncey - Huff Creek 46kV Circuit 614 Rich Creek Rd, LYBURN, WEST VIRGINIA 25632
on — Traumatic injuries or exposures unspecified, affecting the Other finger(s) n.e.c..
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Final narrative
An employee was freeing a jammed winch line when tension developed in the line and the employee's hand was pulled into the winch. The winch was mounted on a truck. The employee was hospitalized with injuries to their fingers that required surgery.
Hospitalized Other finger(s) n.e.c. Trucks with mounted machines, equipment unspecified
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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