Fractures

Name: Fractures at EDF Renewable Services
Start: 5/27/2015

1 hospitalization · 2015053219 · 5/27/2015 · EDF Renewable Services

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
Source: Turning handtools-power not determined, unspecified
Secondary source: Walls

Employer

Name: EDF Renewable Services
Location: 4501 FM 1259, HEREFORD, TEXAS, 79045
NAICS: 221115
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was operating a fastener tool. While checking the tightness of bolts, he lost balance and pinched his right hand pinky finger between the fastener tool and the wall. Employee suffered an open fracture of the right hand pinky finger and was hospitalized.

Source

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