Amputations

Name: Amputations at JTM Foods, LLC
Start: 9/2/2017

1 amputation · 2017098473 · 9/2/2017 · JTM Foods, LLC

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 maintenance, cleaning
Source: Machinery, unspecified
Secondary source: Textiles, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: JTM Foods, LLC
Location: 2126 East 33rd Street, ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA, 16510
NAICS: 311812
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was cleaning a machine chain with a rag when the rag became caught in the chain, pulling it and the employee's left index finger into the chain. His finger was amputated to the second knuckle. The machine was unguarded at the time.

Source

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