Amputations

Name: Amputations at Cort Furniture Rentals
Start: 1/16/2015

1 amputation · 2015010518 · 1/16/2015 · Cort Furniture Rentals

Severity

Hospitalized: 0
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
Nature of injury: Amputations

Cause

Event: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
Source: Sofas
Secondary source: Handrails, banisters

Employer

Name: Cort Furniture Rentals
Location: 1301 Wood Hollow Drive, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77057
NAICS: 442110
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

Employee was part of a two-man team moving furniture from a customer's location. Employees were moving a large sleep sofa to the ground level when the sofa came into contact with a metal stair rail. The injured employee's finger was between the two objects at one point, and when they came together, they severed the employee's finger below the first joint.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown