Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Amputations
Final narrative
An employee had just finished lifting a shale bin using two loaders (one with a stinger, chain, and lifting equipment) in order to place matting underneath. Once the matting was in place, the employee directed the loader to lower the bin until there was enough slack in the lifting chain to remove it. As the employee grabbed the eye of the lifting chain to unhook it, the operator of the loader bumped the controls with his knee, causing the chain to tighten and pinch the employee's right middle finger between the bin and the chain. The employee's right middle finger was amputated between the middle and upper joint, and the employee was hospitalized.
An employee was operating a forklift and unloading a truck. After the truck was unloaded, the employee got off the forklift and proceeded to adjust the dock plate with a hook tool. The dock plate slipped and the employee went to adjust the plate with their hand when their left middle finger got caught. Their finger was amputated above the first joint.
An employee was rotating a carbide granulator blade when his finger was caught between the blade and a stationary part of the machine. The employee's right middle finger was partially amputated and they suffered an avulsion to the right ring fingertip.
An employee was using a CNC metal lathe machine in manual mode to check that the thread blocking tool made contact with the jaws. As the employee was manually spinning the spindle, his index fingertip was crushed between the spindle's jaws and the grooving insert, resulting in a fingertip amputation.
During a material handling operation, an employee's fingertip was caught under an air conditioning unit as the unit was lowered onto a cart. The employee's fingertip was amputated.
An employee was removing a bolt from a tractor hub when their right index finger was caught between the hub and the frame. The employee's fingertip was crushed and the employee was hospitalized.