Crushing injuries

Name: Crushing injuries at Kiswire Pine Bluff, Inc.
Start: 8/31/2017

1 hospitalization · 2017088410 · 8/31/2017 · Kiswire Pine Bluff, Inc.

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
Source: Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
Secondary source: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: Kiswire Pine Bluff, Inc.
Location: 5100 Industrial Dr. South, PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS, 71602
NAICS: 332999
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

A temporary employee was pushing a metal cart that was filled with wire when his left ring finger was lacerated and crushed in a pinch point between the cart and an adjacent sine drawing machine. He required surgery.

Source

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