Amputations

Name: Amputations at Expera Specialty Solutions
Start: 4/30/2017

1 amputation · 2017043908 · 4/30/2017 · Expera Specialty Solutions

Severity

Hospitalized: 0
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: Paper production machinery, unspecified

Employer

Name: Expera Specialty Solutions
Location: 100 Main Street, MOSINEE, WISCONSIN, 54455
NAICS: 322121
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee and two coworkers were manually tensioning a belt on a belt drive when his left thumb was pulled into the in-running nip point created between the belt and the sieve, amputating his thumb above the first knuckle. He was wearing leather gloves at the time of the incident.

Source

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