Amputations

Name: Amputations at Allegheny Wood Products, Inc.
Start: 12/5/2016

1 amputation · 20161211339 · 12/5/2016 · Allegheny Wood Products, Inc.

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
Source: Wood, lumber, unspecified
Secondary source: Chippers

Employer

Name: Allegheny Wood Products, Inc.
Location: 577 Clover Dew Dairy Road, PRINCETON, WEST VIRGINIA, 24740
NAICS: 321113
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was pushing boards into a chipper when the ends of two boards closed together and caught the employee's right middle fingertip, amputating approximately one-third of the fingernail.

Source

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