Struck by running powered equipment unspecified · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Donsco, Inc., 124 North Front Street, WRIGHTSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA 17368
on — Fractures , affecting the Lower leg(s).
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Final narrative
An employee climbed onto the shaker car (shakeout system for castings) to travel from the shaker to the control deck. The shaker was activated and the employee's lower left leg was caught between the car and the shaker. The employee sustained fractures to their tibia and fibula. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was trying to retrieve pouring instructions from a mold. She was pinned between the mold and the "jacket" (the mechanism that grabbed the mold).
An employee stood on a 2-foot square 4-inch high step to do a die change. The employee misstepped and fell to the floor, breaking the left hip. The employee was hospitalized for surgery.
An employee was entering the facility through a roll-up door when a forklift driver reversed and ran over the employee. The employee suffered a broken right hip and left foot.
At 6:00 PM, an employee was doing his normal set-up duties. To check for sand, he reached into the top of the magazine and the clamp came down on his finger resulting in a fingertip amputation.
An employee amputated the tip of their right index finger and their middle finger when they were caught between a casting and a machine apron while trying to remove the casting from the machine.
Two employees were setting up a mandrel in the spindle of a machine. The mandrel was side-shifted while an employee's hand was on the mast of a powered industrial truck. The employee suffered crushing injuries that resulted in amputations to the middle and ring fingertips.
An employee was working to remove a product blockage from a piece of equipment. The employee was struck by a metal bar near the deck of the pin mixer equipment and sustained blunt force trauma to the torso.
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An employee was realigning two halves of a core box on a core-making machine. Pneumatic pressure released, causing the core box to close on the employee's right thumb. The thumb tip was amputated between the nail and the knuckle.
An employee was performing maintenance/electrical work inside a substation, and used a ladder to access the top of a panel box. The employee fell 8-9 feet from the top of the panel box to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to their ribs and a shoulder injury.
An employee's hand was caught in a pinch point in the area of a conveyor for a flask running out of a foundry molding machine. The employee's ring finger was crushed and partially amputated at the base.
An employee noticed a block was out of place under the weighted mold frame. The employee used another block to push the block out and replace it. When the block came out, the frame came down on his right ring and little fingers. The employee sustained a fracture and partial amputation to the ring fingertip.
An employee was using a fork truck to move a tub containing molten iron that had been drained from the cupula. The tub tipped over and the molten metal came in contact with water. This caused the molten iron to splash back and burn the employee's upper torso.
An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.
An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.
An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.
An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.