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 Prysmian Cables and Systems USA LLC, 409 Reighard Avenue, WILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA 17701
on — Traumatic injuries or exposures unspecified, affecting the Multiple body parts n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee opened a service door for a spooler house draw bench and leaned inside to change a bobbin. The door then closed on her, striking and injuring her neck and knee. The employee was hospitalized.
Hospitalized Multiple body parts n.e.c. Other metal, wood, and special material machinery n.e.c.
More severe injuries at Prysmian Cables and Systems USA LLC
An employee was entering the building and slipped on a wet floor by the time clock. The employee struck a wall and fell onto the concrete floor. The employee's left distal femur (knee) was fractured.
An employee was checking cable wires and went to place a cable back on the belt. When the employee pulled the cable, his right thumb got caught between the cable and the belt, resulting in an amputation to the distal phalanx. A guard was in place on the capstan door at the time.
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.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 332618)
An employee was driving a powered industrial truck (PIT) carrying a nesting sheave on the back counterweight of the PIT. He was holding the sheave when the PIT struck a pothole in the floor, causing the sheave to roll forward and crush his right index fingertip against the back of the PIT seat frame. The employee's fingertip was amputated, requiring hospitalization and surgery.
An employee was building slings. They were placing wire rope in a pneumatic vise when their right index finger was caught between the vise and the wire rope, resulting in a fracture that required hospitalization and surgery.
At about 7:15 a.m. on August 28, 2025, an employee was using a construction compactor to stabilize the dirt of a dam that had just been built. The dirt gave way underneath the compactor, which tipped on its left side. The employee fell out and was crushed and pinned between the compactor and the dirt. He was hospitalized, having suffered a broken sternum and broken ribs on both sides, as well as a laceration to the left leg by the ankle joint.
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.