Amputations

Name: Amputations at American Packaging Corporation
Start: 7/13/2017

1 amputation · 2017076489 · 7/13/2017 · American Packaging Corporation

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
Source: Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: American Packaging Corporation
Location: 100 APC Way, COLUMBUS, WISCONSIN, 53925
NAICS: 322221
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was working at a rotary table and attempted to a lift a cylinder journal that weighed 98 pounds. She immediately went to set the journal down on the nearest available surface. While she setting the journal down, her left ring finger was pinched between the journal and the table, partially amputating her fingertip.

Source

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