Amputations

Name: Amputations at Arconic Fastening Systems and Rings
Start: 10/26/2017

1 amputation · 20171010303 · 10/26/2017 · Arconic Fastening Systems and Rings

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: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: Arconic Fastening Systems and Rings
Location: 8001 Imperial Dr., WOODWAY, TEXAS, 76712
NAICS: 423840
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was performing routine maintenance on a header machine when his left-hand fingers entered a hole in the machine. The machine arm then fell on his left-hand fingers, amputating the index finger.

Source

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