Amputations

Name: Amputations at American Airlines, Inc.
Start: 4/20/2015

1 amputation · 2015042133 · 4/20/2015 · American Airlines, Inc.

Severity

Hospitalized: 0
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Fingertip(s)
Nature of injury: Amputations

Cause

Event: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
Source: Wheelchairs-powered

Employer

Name: American Airlines, Inc.
Location: MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, MIAMI, FLORIDA, 33299
NAICS: 481111
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

On April 20, 2015, an employee was loading a powered wheel chair weighing approximately 400 lbs into the cargo bay of a 757 aircraft and got his left pinky finger caught between the wheel and the frame of the wheel chair resulting in the amputation of the pinky fingertip.

Source

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