Amputations

Name: Amputations at Bar Processing Corp.
Start: 8/17/2015

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2015085854 · 8/17/2015 · Bar Processing Corp.

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
Nature of injury: Amputations

Cause

Event: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
Source: Sawing machinery-stationary, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: Bar Processing Corp.
Location: 1601 Wentworth Ave., CHICAGO HEIGHTS, ILLINOIS, 60411
NAICS: 331210
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was making adjustments to a vise on a cold saw machine when the vise clamped down on the employee's left hand, fracturing two fingers and partially amputating the index finger.

Source

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