OSHA cites metal buildings' manufacturer for exposing employees to amputation hazards following serious injury
After a 40-year-old worker suffered the partial amputation of one finger and an injury to a second one while cleaning a machine at a metal buildings manufacturer in January 2022, federal workplace safety inspectors found the company willfully exposed the worker to amputation hazards.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration determined that a lack of functional machine safety locks allowed the rag the worker was using to become caught and pulled into the machine's steel rollers, leading to the injury.