Amputations

Name: Amputations at MFA Agri Services
Start: 10/7/2016

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2016109484 · 10/7/2016 · MFA Agri Services

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
Nature of injury: Amputations

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
Source: Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, n.e.c

Employer

Name: MFA Agri Services
Location: 3501 So. HWY 61, PERRYVILLE, MISSOURI, 63775
NAICS: 424910
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was attempting to change the bearings on a fertilizer tender truck's auger and was using a garden hose to loosen the product. The hose became tangled in the auger, which drug his hand into the auger. As a result, his right pinky and part of his ring finger were amputated. He was hospitalized.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
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