MACHINERY

Name: MACHINERY at Solvay Chemicals, Inc
Start: 02/22/2005

220050590017 · 02/22/2005 · Solvay Chemicals, Inc

Details

Degree of injury: PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY
Classification: MACHINERY
Accident type: Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Occupation: Roof bolter, Rock bolter, Pinner, Mobile roof support operator (MRS)
Activity: Roof bolter, NEC
Injury source: UNDERGRD MINING MACHINES
Nature of injury: AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
Body part: FINGER(S)/THUMB
Days lost: 93
Mine experience: 13.17 years

Operator

Controller (parent): Solvay S A
Operator: Solvay Chemicals, Inc
Mine: 4801295

Narrative

Employee was raising the floor on a Fletcher roof bolter when he got the tip of his thumb caught in a gate. The gate severed the tip of the thumb off. He was taken to the emergency room and flown to Salt Lake City to try and reattach the finger. They were unable to reattach it.

Source

Authoritative: MSHA Open Government Data
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown