Amputations

Name: Amputations at Coca Cola Company
Start: 8/20/2016

1 amputation · 2016087823 · 8/20/2016 · Coca Cola Company

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
Source: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: Coca Cola Company
Location: 217 Aqua Penn Drive, HOWARD, PENNSYLVANIA, 16841
NAICS: 312111
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

On or about August 20, 2016, at 5:30 p.m., an employee was helping another employee to move a mold to be repaired on the 18-station blow molder when his right pinky finger was caught in the machine. His pinky fingertip had to be surgically amputated just past the nailbed.

Source

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