OSHA cites metal-stamping facility after portion of employee's finger is amputated
Co-worker has similar injury one year earlier on same machine
Just one year after a worker amputated part of her right index finger on a spot welding machine at an Osceola, Wisconsin, metal stamping plant, a 19-year-old female co-worker suffered a similar injury on the same machine. OSHA inspectors found that her employer failed to implement safety procedures they agreed upon to protect workers from machine operating parts.
OSHA issued two egregious willful, one repeated, three serious and two other-than-serious safety violations to Kapco Inc. on July 31, 2015. Proposed penalties total $207,600.