Amputations

Name: Amputations at Navistar Defense
Start: 7/26/2017

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2017076994 · 7/26/2017 · Navistar Defense

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
Source: Metal plates, metal panels
Secondary source: Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered

Employer

Name: Navistar Defense
Location: 901 East Half Mile Street, WEST POINT, MISSISSIPPI, 39773
NAICS: 336992
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was trying to catch a steel plate weighing approximately 45 pounds as it fell from a cart when his left pinky finger was caught and partially amputated in an open hole on the plate.

Source

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