Amputations

Name: Amputations at Savage Refinery Services
Start: 10/20/2017

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 20171010079 · 10/20/2017 · Savage Refinery Services

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Fingertip(s)
Nature of injury: Amputations

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
Source: Conveyors-powered, unspecified
Secondary source: Wrenches-power not determined

Employer

Name: Savage Refinery Services
Location: 1001 S. Airhart Dr., BAYTOWN, TEXAS, 77522
NAICS: 562119
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was using a wrench to adjust a skirt board on a coke conveyor because product was falling off the conveyor. The conveyor caught the wrench, which then struck the employee's left index finger. The employee's fingertip was removed. The employee was hospitalized for surgery to reattach the fingertip.

Source

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