Amputations

Name: Amputations at Republic Services, Inc.
Start: 12/26/2015

1 amputation · 2015129737 · 12/26/2015 · Republic Services, Inc.

Severity

Hospitalized: 0
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Fingertip(s)
Nature of injury: Amputations

Cause

Event: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
Source: Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
Secondary source: Garbage, recycling, or refuse truck

Employer

Name: Republic Services, Inc.
Location: Chan's Chinese Restaurant, READING, PENNSYLVANIA, 19602
NAICS: 562111
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

On or about December 26, 2015, at 12:40 pm and employee was pushing a two-yard trailer can dumpster up to the back of the garbage truck when the front caster wheel of the dumpster seized up and twisted sideways pitching the dumpster forward and pinching the tip of the his right ring finger between the dumpster's trunnion bar and the truck. He was transported to the hospital where the tip of his right ring finger was amputated and repaired.

Source

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