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Amputations
1 hospitalization · 2015031134 · 3/11/2015 · Kohler Co.
Severity
- Hospitalized
- 1
- Amputation
- 0
- Loss of eye
- 0
- Body part
- Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- Nature of injury
- Amputations
Cause
- Event
- Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- Source
- Refrigerators, freezers, ice makers
Employer
- Name
- Kohler Co.
- Location
- 444 Highland Dr., KOHLER, WISCONSIN, 53044
- NAICS
- 331522
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee was hospitalized and had his right thumb amputated after his hand was injured in the cooling fan of a chiller unit he was troubleshooting.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
- JSON-LD · Markdown