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

AUBURN, PENNSYLVANIA—

Surteco North America Inc

Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries

Final narrative

An employee was starting up a calender machine. The startup procedure required the employee to thread a string on a plastic pole to feed through the machine. While the employee was threading the pole, the machine caught their left thumb. While the employee was trying to extricate their thumb, the machine pulled in their right arm. They suffered a fracture to the left thumb, as well as a crushing injury and skin removal to the right arm. The employee was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Hospitalized Hand(s) and arm(s) n.e.c. Rolling mills, rolling, calendering machinery

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