Amputations

Name: Amputations at Chain Electric Company
Start: 8/14/2015

1 amputation · 2015085795 · 8/14/2015 · Chain Electric Company

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
Source: Engine, engine block, motor-vehicle
Secondary source: Backhoes, trackhoes

Employer

Name: Chain Electric Company
Location: 49 County Road 872-A, HEIDELBERG, MISSISSIPPI, 39439
NAICS: 238210
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was disconnecting an attachment from the boom of an excavator for a transmission crew. When the connecting pin was removed, the 100-pound auger motor he was working on fell and crushed the end of his left pinky finger. He suffered an amputation of the distal end/joint of that finger.

Source

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