Amputations

Name: Amputations at Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility
Start: 11/26/2017

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 20171111251 · 11/26/2017 · Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
Source: Cooling and humidifying machinery and appliances, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility
Location: U.S. 191, CHINLE, ARIZONA, 86503
NAICS: 622110
Jurisdiction: 0

Narrative

An employee was on top of an air handler, troubleshooting it. As he came down, he twisted his ankle and fell on the cover of the air handler's pulley/belt drive, knocking the cover off of the rotating pulley system. Two of his fingers were then caught and amputated in the rotating pulley system.

Source

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