Fractures

Name: Fractures at Sancast, Inc. a subsidiary of Wabtec
Start: 6/26/2018

1 hospitalization · 2018066315 · 6/26/2018 · Sancast, Inc. a subsidiary of Wabtec

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Foot (feet), unspecified
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
Source: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified

Employer

Name: Sancast, Inc. a subsidiary of Wabtec
Location: 535 Clow Lane, COSHOCTON, OHIO, 43812
NAICS: 331511
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was performing a headboard change out on a mold machine. The employee stepped back onto a limit switch causing the hydraulic pusher to traverse and catch the employee's left foot between the 900 psi hydraulic pusher and a fixed portion of the roller conveyor. The employee's left foot was fractured. The conveyor with hydraulic pusher was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown