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Conestoga Wood Specialties Corporation

Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning — Amputations — BEAVERTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA

AMPUTATION — Worker suffered amputation at Conestoga Wood Specialties Corporation in BEAVERTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
Employer Conestoga Wood Specialties Corporation Report ID 2022064742
Address 441 W Market Street City, State ZIP BEAVERTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA 17813
Event Date June 1, 2022 Outcome Amputation
Nature of Injury Amputations Body Part Fingertip(s)
Event Type Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning Source of Injury Sawing machinery-stationary, unspecified
Secondary Source Wood, lumber, unspecified
Industry (NAICS) 337110 Inspection # 1600154
GPS Coordinates 40.75000, -77.17000

Incident Narrative

An employee was repositioning a wooden board that did not feed properly into a saw. The board then became jammed. The employee reached to grasp the board and their left middle finger became stuck between the fence and a moving chain, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Incident Summary

On June 1, 2022, a worker at Conestoga Wood Specialties Corporation in BEAVERTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA suffered amputations to the fingertip(s). The incident was classified as caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning, with sawing machinery-stationary, unspecified identified as the source of injury. The worker was amputation.

Context

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