Amputations

Name: Amputations at Suburban Landscape Management
Start: 12/22/2016

1 amputation · 20161211883 · 12/22/2016 · Suburban Landscape Management

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
Source: Vehicle and mobile equipment parts, n.e.c.
Secondary source: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered

Employer

Name: Suburban Landscape Management
Location: 1100 E. MacArthur, WICHITA, KANSAS, 67216
NAICS: 561730
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

On December 22, 2016, at 11:00 a.m. an employee was manually moving a snow plow blade on a parked forklift and caught his finger under the blade and between a fork on the forklift resulting in a left middle fingertip amputation.

Source

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