Amputations

Name: Amputations at Progress Rail Services Corporation
Start: 3/18/2015

1 amputation · 2015031271 · 3/18/2015 · Progress Rail Services Corporation

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: Metal plates, metal panels
Secondary source: Trailers

Employer

Name: Progress Rail Services Corporation
Location: 618 US Highway 150 East, GALESBURG, ILLINOIS, 61401
NAICS: 423930
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

The last digit on an employee's pinky finger was amputated when caught between a metal plate attached to a pump and a trailer bed while unloading scrap metal into the Peddlers Yard. Suitable safeguarding was not in place at the time of the incident.

Source

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