Cuts, lacerations

Name: Cuts, lacerations at Titan Machinery INC.
Start: 12/16/2016

1 hospitalization · 20161211694 · 12/16/2016 · Titan Machinery INC.

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Hand(s), unspecified
Nature of injury: Cuts, lacerations

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
Source: Tractor, unspecified
Secondary source: Textiles, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: Titan Machinery INC.
Location: 302 US Highway 14, HIGHMORE, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57345
NAICS: 811111
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was using a rag to find the source of a leak on a tractor transmission when the rag became stuck in a flywheel and subsequently pulled the employee's hand into the flywheel. The employee suffered a right-hand laceration that required stitches.

Source

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