Amputations

Name: Amputations at Wirerope Works
Start: 12/18/2015

1 amputation · 2015129593 · 12/18/2015 · Wirerope Works

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Entangled in other object or equipment
Source: Wire, cables-nonelectrical

Employer

Name: Wirerope Works
Location: 100 Maynard St, WILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA, 17701
NAICS: 331222
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was checking the wire on strander machine #265. The wire was stranding onto a bobbin and somehow his finger got under the wire. The tip of his left middle finger was amputated to the first joint.

Source

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