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

IOLA, KANSAS—

GATES CORP.

Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Amputations

Final narrative

An operator was working at the north end of a strip table with another operator at the south end of the table at a nylon unwrapper. The operator was trying to keep the 3/8" pole on the rollers to help the pole spin as the nylon was being removed from the pole. The end of the pole got caught in a roller and the operator's hand got tangled together with the pole. When the operator pulled his hand out of the entanglement, his right middle fingertip was amputated. The finger was also broken below the amputation point.

Amputation Fingertip(s) Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.

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