OSHA investigators arrived in Kearneysville, WV on Thursday, November 12th 2015 and began an accident investigation after learning of an incident at Royal Vendors, Inc. which had occured on Friday, October 30th 2015. A employee working as a was injured on the job when the caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
Accident Date2015-10-30
Accident DegreeInjury
NarrativeOn October 29, 2015, at approximately 4:00pm, a maintenance technician suffered an amputation while troubleshooting an air cylinder on an evaporator foam fixture in the Tooling Department. The maintenance tech placed his left hand on top of the cylinder hole while looking at the right side of the cylinder. His arm inadvertently activated the lever in the down position and the tip of his left ring finger was pinched between the cylinder and the hole resulting in amputation.