Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Amputations
Final narrative
An employee had just finished rigging a bundle of channel iron together to be lifted to the roof of a building. When the load began to lift, the employee was stepping back from the load to grab the tagline when he reached out and lightly placed his left hand against the load to steady it. At that time, the bundle of channel iron rolled inward, catching his left glove and pulling his hand in between two pieces of iron. He was able to pull his hand back immediately, but his left middle fingertip was crushed, resulting in an amputation (without bone loss) of the distal tip of his left middle finger.
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.