Amputations

Name: Amputations at Packaging Service Co., Inc.
Start: 5/2/2018

1 amputation · 2018054245 · 5/2/2018 · Packaging Service Co., Inc.

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 regular operation
Source: Bottling, canning, filling machinery

Employer

Name: Packaging Service Co., Inc.
Location: 1904 Mykawa Rd., PEARLAND, TEXAS, 77581
NAICS: 333999
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was manually helping a production line lead at a capper machine apply caps to bottles of windshield washer fluid when he noticed that a cap had fallen into the machine's chain and sprocket. He was attempting to remove the cap when the chain and sprocket amputated four of his right fingers. The machine was guarded at the time.

Source

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