Amputations

Name: Amputations at Axiall Corporation
Start: 2/24/2017

1 amputation · 2017021789 · 2/24/2017 · Axiall Corporation

Severity

Hospitalized: 0
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
Nature of injury: Amputations

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
Source: Conveyors-screw, auger

Employer

Name: Axiall Corporation
Location: 20043 Highway 51, HAZLEHURST, MISSISSIPPI, 39083
NAICS: 325991
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee opened the cleanout on a screw conveyor that had stopped. As he was removing the super sack string that had bound it up, the screw conveyor continued turning and amputated his right ring finger.

Source

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