Amputations

Name: Amputations at Gordon Food Service
Start: 3/9/2017

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2017032195 · 3/9/2017 · Gordon Food Service

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
Nature of injury: Amputations

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
Source: Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, unspecified

Employer

Name: Gordon Food Service
Location: 1410 Gordon Food Service Dr., PLANT CITY, FLORIDA, 33563
NAICS: 722310
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was performing preventive maintenance on a powered industrial vehicle (PIV). The employee was cleaning the lifting cylinder from the inside of the PIV when the cylinder pinched his right thumb causing a severe laceration to the bone that resulted in an amputation injury.

Source

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