Amputations

Name: Amputations at Bektrom Foods, Inc.
Start: 5/19/2016

1 amputation · 2016054388 · 5/19/2016 · Bektrom Foods, Inc.

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: Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery

Employer

Name: Bektrom Foods, Inc.
Location: 1301 Fifth Avenue, CANDO, NORTH DAKOTA, 58324
NAICS: 311824
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was removing plastic from the sprocket of a machine when his right thumb was pulled in and amputated above the knuckle. The machine was running at the time of the incident.

Source

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