Amputations

Name: Amputations at Alpha Packaging Holdings Inc.
Start: 3/12/2018

1 amputation · 2018032444 · 3/12/2018 · Alpha Packaging Holdings Inc.

Severity

Hospitalized: 0
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
Nature of injury: Amputations

Cause

Event: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
Source: Barrels, drums-except pressurized
Secondary source: Machinery, unspecified

Employer

Name: Alpha Packaging Holdings Inc.
Location: 14801 Emery Avenue, CLEVELAND, OHIO, 44135
NAICS: 326199
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was mixing acrylic purge with a mixer when the mixer drum tipped. He attempted to catch the drum and stand it back up. While he was standing it back up, his left thumb was crushed between the mixer drum and the stand, resulting in a partial amputation.

Source

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