Amputations

Name: Amputations at Anixter Inc.
Start: 11/29/2016

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 20161111096 · 11/29/2016 · Anixter Inc.

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
Nature of injury: Amputations

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
Source: Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery

Employer

Name: Anixter Inc.
Location: 15101 Trinity Blvd, FORT WORTH, TEXAS, 76155
NAICS: 423610
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was operating the shrink wrap machine. As he was lowering the stretch wrap to the bottom of a pallet, his left ring finger was caught by the spinning plate that the pallet was sitting on. His finger then became caught in the machine and was amputated.

Source

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