Crushing injuries

Name: Crushing injuries at Kwangsung America Corporation
Start: 5/17/2017

1 hospitalization · 2017054473 · 5/17/2017 · Kwangsung America Corporation

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
Nature of injury: Crushing injuries

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
Source: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
Secondary source: Blouses, shirts, dresses, trousers, skirts

Employer

Name: Kwangsung America Corporation
Location: 217 Thweatt Industrial Park Blvd., DADEVILLE, ALABAMA, 36853
NAICS: 336399
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was loading the resonator into the blow mold machine when the employee's shirt was caught in the machine which made him stumble and hit the actuation button for the clamps. A clamp closed on the employee's right middle finger, crushing it.

Source

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