Lack of machine guarding results in worker’s finger being amputated
Smithville Manufacturing Co. cited for hazards
OSHA defines a willful violation as “one committed with intentional knowing or voluntary disregard for the law's requirements, or with plain indifference to worker safety and health.”
Of the 21 healthy and safety violations earned by Smithville Manufacturing Co. in Wooster, Ohio recently, only one was willful – but it was the one related to the traumatic amputation of a worker’s finger by an unguarded press machine.