Amputations

Name: Amputations at West Troy, LLC
Start: 5/6/2017

1 amputation · 2017054123 · 5/6/2017 · West Troy, LLC

Severity

Hospitalized: 0
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
Nature of injury: Amputations

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
Source: Machinery, unspecified

Employer

Name: West Troy, LLC
Location: 650 Olympic Dr., TROY, OHIO, 45373
NAICS: 333514
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was performing preventative maintenance on a machine and greasing a chain when a finger was caught in the machine's chain and sprocket resulting in partial amputation of the right thumb. The machine was not guarded at the time.

Source

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