105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

CALUMET CITY, ILLINOIS—

Plastics Color Corporation

Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations

Final narrative

On May 4, 2016, at approximately 2:30 pm, an employee noticed that the (powders) raw materials were not going down easily through the mixing chamber (approximately 165 cubic inches) of an extrusion machine fitted with a rotating shaft "rotor" with a maximum speed of 100/500 rpm's. He attempted to clear out the material from the mixing chamber with a putty knife at different speeds (controlled/adjusted by the employee himself) beginning at 460 rpm, then down to 120 rpm, and then up to 130 rpm when his gloved hand (cloth) holding the putty knife was pulled in the mixing chamber. The knife was thrown out and when he pulled his hand out his right thumb and three other fingers on his right hand were amputated.

Hospitalized Amputation Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c. Extruding machinery

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