Amputations

Name: Amputations at Environmental Field Services, Inc.
Start: 6/10/2016

1 amputation · 2016065143 · 6/10/2016 · Environmental Field Services, 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: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
Source: Tool parts, accessories, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: Environmental Field Services, Inc.
Location: 16192 Alabama 69, JOPPA, ALABAMA, 35087
NAICS: 238110
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was reinstalling a cutting shoe on a direct push tube soil sampling rod. The dual tube rod slid out of the tensioner that was being used to hold it up and fell back down the bore hole, amputating the employee's right index finger below the first knuckle.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
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