While working the overnight sanitation shift at an Ohio food processing plant, a temporary worker suffered critical injuries that led to an amputation after falling into an industrial blender he was cleaning.
OSHA proposes fines of $227K to Carpenter Co. for willful, repeated safety violations
July 20, 2022
A federal workplace safety investigation into how an employee suffered serious injuries in January 2022 at a Temple, Texas manufacturing facility operated by Carpenter Co. found the company had not installed adequate machine guards or locking devices on a hot laminating machine to protect workers from unsafe contact with the machine’s operating parts.
Cal/OSHA has issued more than $300,000 in serious citations to two employers after a temporary worker lost two fingers cleaning machinery at a food manufacturing facility in Los Angeles. The worker was cleaning a dough rolling machine when his left hand was partially pulled into the moving rollers and two of his fingers were amputated.
In a recent address to attendees of the National Safety Conference for the Poultry Industry, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Loren Sweatt expressed the hope that a “turning point” was just ahead in the sometimes-rocky relationship between OSHA and the industry.
In the event that your finger is amputated during an accident, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons offers this advice: Apply pressure to the injured area immediately.
Gently cleanse the amputated part with water (preferably saline).
50,000 new amputations occur every year in the U.S. based on information from National Center for Health Statistics. Ratio of upper limb to lower limb amputation is 1:4. Most common is partial hand amputation with loss of one or more fingers -- 61,000. Next common is loss of one arm -- 25,000.
A teenaged employee who was required to operate a press break and sheer cutting machine – in violation of child labor laws – had his thumb partially amputated in a workplace accident.
OSHA cites Bancroft Bags Inc. in West Monroe, Louisiana; fines total $84K
October 19, 2015
Bancroft Bags Inc. in West Monroe, Louisiana has been cited for failing to guard machinery and implement appropriate shut down procedures, Bancroft was cited for 16 serious violations by OSHA.