Amputations

Name: Amputations at United Furniture Industries, Inc.
Start: 9/29/2016

1 amputation · 2016099185 · 9/29/2016 · United Furniture Industries, Inc.

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: Nonclassifiable
Secondary source: Wood, lumber, unspecified

Employer

Name: United Furniture Industries, Inc.
Location: 311 Martin Luther King Blvd., AMORY, MISSISSIPPI, 38821
NAICS: 321113
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was moving a board that was double-stacked on a chain conveyor. When he moved the top board, his right index finger was pinched by the boards or chain conveyor and his fingertip had to be surgically amputated.

Source

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