Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Hospital Central Services Cooperative, Inc, 310 Rear Market Street, KINGSTON, PENNSYLVANIA 18704
on — Fractures , affecting the Leg(s) unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was unjamming a lift when their right leg was caught between a pneumatic ram and the frame assembly of the lift. The employee's leg was fractured.
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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