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 Morgan Advanced Materials, 441 Hall Avenue, SAINT MARYS, PENNSYLVANIA 15857
on — Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures, affecting the Hand(s), finger(s) unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was setting up for operations on a centerless plunge grinder. The machine's cutting wheel lacerated the top of the employee's right hand. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was changing a light bulb from an 8-foot A-frame stepladder. The employee sustained an electric shock and fell from the ladder to the floor about 6 feet below. The employee suffered four broken ribs and was hospitalized.
An employee was cutting carbon blanks on a band saw. His hand slipped and contacted the blade, which cut three-quarters of the way through his right middle finger, resulting in medical amputation.
While conducting a die change, an employee attempted to remove a clamp ring from around the die. The die ring assembly slipped and pinched the employee's left middle finger between the ring and the table of the press, resulting in a fingertip amputation.
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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