OSHA Injury Report: "Diagnostics : Beckman Coulter - Hebron"

At a glance

Where did this happen?

What was the outcome?

Before the incident

Unjamming a dock plate that would not go to the ground-level position after a trailer had departed.

What happened

Associate was injured while performing a non-routine maintenance on a dock plate at dock door 16 in Zone 6. Associate was unjamming a dock plate that would not go to the ground-level position after a trailer had departed. The Associate went outside and untangled the mechanism chain under the dock plate resulting in a quick and unexpected closing of the plate to the ground shearing half of the tip of the left middle finger. Dock plate fell on associate 's fingers because the cylinder had failed and the chain was caught on underneath components and when the chain was released the Dock plate fell. Associate said that this was a simple task that happens infrequently. Associate was not aware of the back-up support mechanism under every dock plate that should be in place during any plate work. During the 3rd party (Crown) repair of the dock plate the [REDACTED] it was discovered that the spring-loaded support cylinder that normally props the plate upward had been broken. The result was the p

Injury or illness

Mallet deformity to left middle finger.

Object or substance involved

Dock plate.

Summary line

Injury to finger when it was struck by moving dock plate that unexpectedly and quickly closed after a non-routine unjamming of the dock plate that would not go to the ground-level position.

Employee and industry

When (timing detail)

Source

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year unspecified. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.