OSHA investigators arrived in Mundelein, IL on Friday, October 20th 2017 and began an accident investigation after learning of an incident at American Marketing Services And Consultants, Inc. which had occured on Monday, October 16th 2017. A 32 year old woman working as a Machine operator was injured on the job when the
Accident Date2017-10-16
Accident DegreeNon Hospitalized injury
NarrativeAt 5:11 p.m. on October 16, 2017, Employee #1 was running an envelope stuffing machine. During operation, the employee noticed that some of the envelopes that were being processed were not closing correctly. She reached into the machine with her right hand to replace the tape that was being used to hold down a flap, while it was still running. Part of the machine caught the employee's and pulled it into a section of chain and sprocket that were not guarded. Two of the employee's fingers were amputated.