Amputations

Name: Amputations at Quad/Graphics, Inc.
Start: 10/1/2017

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2017109440 · 10/1/2017 · Quad/Graphics, Inc.

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 during regular operation
Source: Sewing, stitching machinery

Employer

Name: Quad/Graphics, Inc.
Location: 56 Duplainville Rd., SARATOGA SPRINGS, NEW YORK, 12866
NAICS: 323110
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was operating a leather sewing machine when a cardboard guard dropped off the machine. As he reached to the floor to pick it up, his left pinky fingertip was caught and amputated in the drive belt where the cardboard guard had been.

Source

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