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 Midwest Scrap Management, 850 East 45th Street North, PARK CITY, KANSAS 67219
on — Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures, affecting the Arm(s) unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was greasing the rollers on the tumbler when his right arm was caught between two rollers and lacerated. The employee was hospitalized. The rollers were not locked out/tagged out.
An employee was checking a double feed roller hydraulic assembly to see if any obstructions were keeping it from opening all the way. As the employee removed a piece of steel, the employee was crushed in the hydraulic assembly resulting in fractured ribs and vertebrae. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was clearing the conveyor belt that fed an auto shredder. A piece of rebar stuck in the conveyor struck the employee's lower left leg, breaking it.
An employee was working on the ground in a scrap yard. A second employee operating a material handler released a bundle of scrap from the handler. The employee on the ground was struck by the bundle of scrap. He was hospitalized with a fractured pelvis and tailbone.
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.
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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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