Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Rand-Whitney Mid-Atlantic, 175 East Walnut Street, RED LION, PENNSYLVANIA 17356
on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Other finger(s) n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was resetting a slitter machine's counter when their left hand was crushed under two rotating score shafts. The employee sustained amputations to three fingers on their left hand.
HospitalizedAmputation Other finger(s) n.e.c. Cutters, slitters, winders paper production
An employee was between two sections of a printer when they sustained amputations to three fingertips on their right hand from the running print rolls.
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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