Amputations

Name: Amputations at PLAZE Georgia
Start: 10/9/2017

1 amputation · 2017109654 · 10/9/2017 · PLAZE Georgia

Severity

Hospitalized: 0
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
Nature of injury: Amputations

Cause

Event: Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
Source: Special process machinery, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: PLAZE Georgia
Location: 310 Brookhollow Road S.E., DALTON, GEORGIA, 30721
NAICS: 325998
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was trying to remove a stuck valve when the valve feeding apparatus broke and either the feeding machine mechanism or a chain broke and amputated the distal end of the employee's left ring finger.

Source

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