Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Retail Distribution East LLC, 600 Oadkridge Road, HAZLETON, PENNSYLVANIA 18202
on , Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
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Final narrative
An employee was repairing a motorized boom conveyor used to load trailers. The employee used an open end wrench as a pry tool in an attempt to correct the tracking of the conveyor belt near the end pulley. When the unit was actuated to start to the re-track process, the wrench moved and pinched the employee's right pinky finger against a hard metal surface, amputating the finger from the first joint.