Amputations

Name: Amputations at Black Gold Farms
Start: 9/1/2017

1 amputation · 2017098466 · 9/1/2017 · Black Gold Farms

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
Source: Packaging, bottling, wrapping machinery, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: Black Gold Farms
Location: 10701 State Hwy 164, ARBYRD, MISSOURI, 63821
NAICS: 311991
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was using a produce bagger machine to fill sacks with potatoes when the machine's pneumatic clamp crushed the employee's left pinky finger, requiring amputation without bone loss.

Source

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