Amputations

Name: Amputations at Wood-Mode, Incorporated
Start: 3/21/2017

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2017032608 · 3/21/2017 · Wood-Mode, Incorporated

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
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 regular operation
Source: Drills-stationary

Employer

Name: Wood-Mode, Incorporated
Location: 1 Second Street, KREAMER, PENNSYLVANIA, 17833
NAICS: 337110
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was operating a multiple spindle drilling machine to make stiles for wood products when the pneumatic hold-down came down on her right ring finger and amputated the fingertip to the first joint.

Source

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