Cuts, lacerations

Name: Cuts, lacerations at Tidewater Equipment Company
Start: 10/27/2015

1 hospitalization · 2015108040 · 10/27/2015 · Tidewater Equipment Company

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Hand(s), n.e.c.
Nature of injury: Cuts, lacerations

Cause

Event: Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
Source: Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
Secondary source: Loaders, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: Tidewater Equipment Company
Location: Lick Skillet Rd, FORSYTH, GEORGIA, 31029
NAICS: 333132
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was hospitalized due to a severe cut while working on a TigerCat 234 Loader. The compensator was forcibly ejected from the valve body by hydraulic fluid pressure cutting the webbing between his left hand index and middle finger and forcing hydraulic fluid into the cut.

Source

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