Amputations

Name: Amputations at Crest Food Company
Start: 3/10/2016

1 amputation · 2016032129 · 3/10/2016 · Crest Food Company

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: Special process machinery, unspecified

Employer

Name: Crest Food Company
Location: 200 Brown St, ASHTON, ILLINOIS, 61006
NAICS: 311514
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was reassembling a bagger head when a metal piece came too close to a metal detector and caused the machine to deactivate. The deactivation caused a valve to close on the employee's left thumb, partially amputating it.

Source

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