Amputations

Name: Amputations at CASCADES NEW YORK INC.
Start: 3/30/2017

1 amputation · 2017037150 · 3/30/2017 · CASCADES NEW YORK INC.

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
Source: Banding, baling, strapping machinery

Employer

Name: CASCADES NEW YORK INC.
Location: 1845 Emerson Street, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, 14606
NAICS: 423930
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was operating a baler machine. The employee installed a new spool of baling wire on the back of the machine and then threaded the new wire through the eyelets and was twisting the new wire onto the old wire when the machine cycled severing his left hand. The machine was not guarded at the time.

Source

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