Amputations

Name: Amputations at Brittany Global Technologies Corporation
Start: 12/19/2015

1 amputation · 2015129850 · 12/19/2015 · Brittany Global Technologies Corporation

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
Source: Textile, apparel, leather production machinery, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: Brittany Global Technologies Corporation
Location: 1357 East Rodney French Boulevard, NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS, 02744
NAICS: 313310
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

A worker was cleaning the chain of a tenter frame machine. A second worker was jogging the machine for the first worker. The first worker's right hand was caught in the machine resulting in the amputation of the index fingertip.

Source

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