Amputations

Name: Amputations at Guardian Environmental Services Co.
Start: 1/25/2017

1 amputation · 2017010716 · 1/25/2017 · Guardian Environmental Services Co.

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
Source: Machinery, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: Guardian Environmental Services Co.
Location: 9626 Niagara Falls Boulevard, NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK, 14304
NAICS: 541711
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was assisting in moving a portable truck scale when the load shifted, fell approximately 10 feet, and caught the employee's left-hand fingers between the cribbing and the asphalt resulting in three fingertip amputations and fractures.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
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