Amputations

Name: Amputations at Oak Chips Inc.
Start: 12/8/2016

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 20161211435 · 12/8/2016 · Oak Chips Inc.

Severity

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

Cause

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

Employer

Name: Oak Chips Inc.
Location: 306 West North Street, WAVERLY, OHIO, 45690
NAICS: 321999
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was feed-loading a board into the loading port or opening of a sap edger when the board kicked back out of the port, causing four of his left-hand fingers to be pinched between the ejected board and another stationary or slowly moving board on the conveyor.

Source

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