Amputations

Name: Amputations at Bechtel Construction Services
Start: 3/22/2017

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2017032653 · 3/22/2017 · Bechtel Construction Services

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
Source: Racks-garment and other
Secondary source: Pallet jack-nonpowered

Employer

Name: Bechtel Construction Services
Location: 2822 La Quinta Road, GREGORY, TEXAS, 78359
NAICS: 236220
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was pushing a loaded scaffold rack onto a pallet jack and pinched his right thumb between the pallet jack handle and the pipe spool resulting in amputation of the thumb.

Source

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