Amputations

Name: Amputations at Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products
Start: 8/12/2016

1 amputation · 2016087575 · 8/12/2016 · Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products

Severity

Hospitalized: 0
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Fingertip(s)
Nature of injury: Amputations

Cause

Event: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
Source: Paper production machinery, unspecified

Employer

Name: Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products
Location: 437 Old Augusta Road South, RINCON, GEORGIA, 31326
NAICS: 322121
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

While troubleshooting a machine, an employee leaned against an adjacent hopper machine and propped himself up with his left hand. The hopper housing moved under his weight and pinched this thumb, fracturing bone and amputating his thumb tip.

Source

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