Amputations

Name: Amputations at The Ames Companies Inc.
Start: 9/29/2017

1 amputation · 2017099335 · 9/29/2017 · The Ames Companies Inc.

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
Source: Sawing machinery-stationary, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: The Ames Companies Inc.
Location: 135 Roaring Run Road, CHAMPION, PENNSYLVANIA, 15622
NAICS: 321113
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was trimming wooden dowels at a trump saw when the saw guard struck the employee's right index and middle fingers. Part of the right middle finger had to be surgically amputated.

Source

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