← OSHA severe injury reports
Amputations
1 amputation · 2016065087 · 6/9/2016 · Caperton Furnitureworks, LLC
Severity
- Hospitalized
- 0
- Amputation
- 1
- Loss of eye
- 0
- Body part
- Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- Nature of injury
- Amputations
Cause
- Event
- Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- Source
- Sawing machinery-stationary, n.e.c.
Employer
- Name
- Caperton Furnitureworks, LLC
- Location
- 5270 Valley Road, BERKELEY SPRINGS, WEST VIRGINIA, 25411
- NAICS
- 337122
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee was handing a coworker pieces of wood after cutting them with a chop saw when the saw activated and partially amputated his right thumb.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
- JSON-LD · Markdown