Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Amputations involving bone loss
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Ohio Art Metal Pack, LLC, One Wood Hollow Rd., PARSIPPANY, NEW JERSEY 07054
on — Amputations involving bone loss, affecting the Other finger(s) n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was clearing a jam on a ring press. The press's secondary switch was activated, engaging it. It caught the employee's hand. The employee was hospitalized and sustained the amputation of two fingers. The machine was unguarded at the time of the incident.
HospitalizedAmputation Other finger(s) n.e.c. Stamping machinery, presses except printing
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