Amputations

Name: Amputations at HARRIS CORPORATION
Start: 4/12/2017

1 amputation · 2017043325 · 4/12/2017 · HARRIS 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: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
Source: Containers-pressurized, n.e.c.
Secondary source: Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered

Employer

Name: HARRIS CORPORATION
Location: 2400 PALM BAY ROAD NE, BLDG. 3-A, PALM BAY, FLORIDA, 32905
NAICS: 334511
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was transporting a container of liquid nitrogen on a dolly. Upon entering a building the container fell off the dolly and pinched the employee's finger between it and the dolly resulting in a left index finger amputation at the tip of the distal interphalangeal joint.

Source

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