Amputations

Name: Amputations at Alabama Power Company
Start: 9/4/2016

1 amputation · 2016098351 · 9/4/2016 · Alabama Power Company

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: Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
Secondary source: Electric parts, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: Alabama Power Company
Location: Unknown, VANCE, ALABAMA, 35490
NAICS: 221121
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was positioning the bucket on an aerial lift when his fingertip was caught between the bucket and a ceramic insulator that was hanging from the pole. He suffered a partial fingertip amputation of the left middle finger (distal phalanx).

Source

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