Amputations

Name: Amputations at NOVA Chemicals Inc.
Start: 1/15/2016

1 amputation · 2016010420 · 1/15/2016 · NOVA Chemicals Inc.

Severity

Hospitalized: 0
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
Nature of injury: Amputations

Cause

Event: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
Source: Heating and cooking machinery and appliances, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: NOVA Chemicals Inc.
Location: 400 Frankfort Road, MONACA, PENNSYLVANIA, 15061
NAICS: 325199
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

The employee was attempting to line up the holes of the heat exchanger with the holes in the heat exchanger support structure to reinstall the bolts that hold it together. The heat exchanger moved and caught his left thumb in a pinch point resulting in a partial amputation.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
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