Amputations

Name: Amputations at Turner Industries Group, LLC
Start: 4/13/2017

1 amputation · 2017043351 · 4/13/2017 · Turner Industries Group, LLC

Severity

Hospitalized: 0
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Fingertip(s)
Nature of injury: Amputations

Cause

Event: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
Source: Barrels, drums-except pressurized

Employer

Name: Turner Industries Group, LLC
Location: 8687 UNITED PLAZA BLVD., BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA, 70809
NAICS: 237990
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was weighing 55-gallon drums that were on a pallet next to a scale. When he tried to rotate a drum off the pallet and onto the scale, his right thumb was pinched between two drums, amputating the thumb tip.

Source

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