Amputations

Name: Amputations at Ardagh Glass Inc.
Start: 12/14/2015

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2015129485 · 12/14/2015 · Ardagh Glass Inc.

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
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 maintenance, cleaning
Source: Conveyors-gravity and nonpowered, unspecified

Employer

Name: Ardagh Glass Inc.
Location: 1000 N. Mission Street, SAPULPA, OKLAHOMA, 74066
NAICS: 327213
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was changing a link in a chain on a set of rollers when a pallet of finished product was pushed onto the roller set being worked on. This caused the sprocket to move on the chain, pulling the employee's left index finger in and amputating it to the middle knuckle.

Source

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