Amputations

Name: Amputations at GREAT SOUTHERN WOOD-JESUP, INC.
Start: 10/13/2015

1 amputation · 2015107630 · 10/13/2015 · GREAT SOUTHERN WOOD-JESUP, INC.

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: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: GREAT SOUTHERN WOOD-JESUP, INC.
Location: 1 Great Southern Way, JESUP, GEORGIA, 31545
NAICS: 321114
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was adjusting a wood molder machine. The employee opened the hood and climbed onto the molding machine partially supporting his body on his right knee and arm. His hand slipped and contacted the machine's "knife" amputating the right hand's middle finger distal phalange.

Source

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