Amputations

Name: Amputations at Opal Foods LLC
Start: 1/16/2016

1 amputation · 2016010437 · 1/16/2016 · Opal Foods LLC

Severity

Hospitalized: 0
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 regular operation
Source: Drums, pulleys, sheaves

Employer

Name: Opal Foods LLC
Location: 9575 WCR 73, ROGGEN, COLORADO, 80652
NAICS: 112310
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

The employee was winding a winch cable. He was guiding the cable with his left hand when, by mistake, he pressed the activation pedal and his left middle finger got caught in the winch cable resulting in amputation above the first joint.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
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