Amputations

Name: Amputations at BYU Idaho
Start: 3/19/2015

1 amputation · 2015031327 · 3/19/2015 · BYU Idaho

Severity

Hospitalized: 0
Amputation: 1
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 regular operation
Source: Sanders-powered

Employer

Name: BYU Idaho
Location: 525 South Center Street, REXBURG, IDAHO, 83460
NAICS: 611310
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was smoothing burs off of a piece of metal using a disc sander. The metal got caught and pulled the employee's right thumb into the sander, peeling the skin back. The tip of the bone was removed during subsequent surgery.

Source

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