Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
105,991Records 71,450Employers 85,836Hospitalizations 27,959Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-11-30

OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221448806

BIEWER OF LANSING LLC

Event
Amputated, Amputation, Caught Between, Crushed, Dislocated, Finger, Foot Control, Foot pedal, Fracture, Jammed, Lumber, Machine Cycled, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Pinched, Plywood, Stack
NAICS
321114
Inspection type
Referral
Activity number
#345862106
Employer profile
BIEWER OF LANSING LLC
Summary number
221448806
Report ID
0552652

Event description

Worker's injury to right finger requires surgical amputation

Investigation abstract

At 2:00 p.m. on February 24, 2022, an employee was working as a laborer for a hospitalized. firm that made pressure treated lumber products. He was working with a stacker machine. Slats of word had become jammed in the machine. He was clearing the jams. He stepped on an inadequately guarded actuation foot pedal device while unjamming the machine. It cycled. A sheet of 0.75 inch (19 mm) plywood pinched the ring finger on his right hand between the edge or corner of the plywood and the periphery of the steel barrier guard. The finger was crushed. The employee suffered a fracture to and dislocation of that finger. The injury eventually required the medical or surgical amputation of the finger. The employee was not

Victim

  1. #1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 24 M

    Event type
    2
    Occupation code
    889

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