Merical, LLC: OSHA inspections and violations

Incident on Feb 22, 2018: Employee is clearing a disc hole on a packing machine and fr

At 11:00 a.m. on February 22, 2018, an employee was working with the Fairchild Machine packing gummy pills. The employee noticed that a pill was stuck in one of the disk holes and tried to push it with her finger while the machine was turned on and did not have a safety guard in place. The employees finger was caught and she fractured it. Hospitalization was not required.

Incident on Jan 30, 2009: Employee amputates finger in machine

On January 30, 2009 Employee #1, a maintenance mechanic, was trying to loosen an d straighten the printed film in the die area of a stick pack machine (Duma DMV 4B), when his hand got caught between the dies. The stick pack machine was not d eenergized prior to removing the film. Employee #1 crushed his right index finge r. His finger was amputated.

Incident on Mar 6, 2007: Employee amputates finger in packaging machine

On March 6, 2007, Employee #1 was working for a wholesale distributor of prescri ption drugs, proprietary drugs, druggists' sundries, and toiletries. She was not a contract employee. She was working in the part of the firm in which pharmaceu tical products were packaged, on packaging line Number 13, running a CAM Partena Model M92 blister packaging machine, with Serial Number M92014. This machine ta kes in PVC film from a roll, forms cavities in the PVC film using heat and a for ming die, and fills the cavities with capsules, tablets, and so forth. It then s eals these cavities with another foil material, prints some information, and fin ally cuts the sealed product into blister cards containing a predesignated numbe r of capsules or tablets. These blister cards fall onto a rotating turn table, w here they are further packed manually. The perforated scrap material sheet is ro uted into a separate bin. At the time of the accident, this scrap material bunch ed up and jammed the output section of the machine. In order to unjam the materi al, Employee #1 reached into the machine to pull out the material without stoppi ng the machine. The index finger of her right hand went into the blister card cu tting die, and it was partially amputated. Employee #1 amputated about an inch o f her right index finger. She was treated in an emergency room and was not hospi talized. Six days after the accident, she also underwent hand surgery as an outp atient.