Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-06-11 | Claysburg | Pa | Champion Home Builders, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
Employees were lifting a dumpster out of a compactor when the load shifted. An employee's finger was caught between the fork and the dumpster resulting in amputation of his left pinky finger at the first knuckle. | |||||
2019-04-24 | Claysburg | Pennsylvania | National Imprint Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was cleaning/wiping the rollers on an envelope converting machine. The employee's right ring finger was pinched between the rollers, causing an amputation to the fingertip with an avulsion of the nail plate. | |||||
2019-02-04 | Claysburg | Pennsylvania | Champion Home Builders, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was cutting plywood/particle board on a table saw. The board jumped causing the employee's right hand to slip into the blade resulting in amputation of the thumb tip. | |||||
2017-07-19 | Claysburg | Pennsylvania | Shirley's Cookie Company Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
An employee was working on a machine and had a part of her right index finger amputated when it got caught in a cylinder of the machine. | |||||
2015-02-06 | Claysburg | Pennsylvania | AP Green Refractories | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
An employee suffered a severe injury to his right-hand ring finger while installing a belt on the number 7 dust collector. |