Amputations

Name: Amputations at Wilson Trailer Company
Start: 12/21/2016

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 20161211846 · 12/21/2016 · Wilson Trailer Company

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Fingertip(s)
Nature of injury: Amputations

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
Source: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified

Employer

Name: Wilson Trailer Company
Location: 3602 Broadway Avenue, YANKTON, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57078
NAICS: 336214
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was trying to manually fit a side panel for a livestock trailer when his finger was pinched between the side panel sheets causing a 1 cm amputation of the employee's left middle fingertip.

Source

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