Four of employee's fingers are amputated by dry ice machine

At 6:45 a.m. on October 9, 2020, a 68-year-old employee was working for a firm that manufactured industrial gases, such as nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, argon, hydrogen, helium, and acetylene. He worked in machinery maintenance. He was at the firm's dry ice (solid carbon dioxide) production facility. He was troubleshooting an IceTech SL1000 dry ice making machine. The blocks of dry ice it was making were not being formed correctly. The employee began troubleshooting the machine by opening the access door to the ice box to inspect the machine. When the employee […]