Amputations

Name: Amputations at Brace Integrated Services, Inc.
Start: 5/4/2018

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2018054350 · 5/4/2018 · Brace Integrated Services, Inc.

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Fingertip(s)
Nature of injury: Amputations

Cause

Event: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
Source: Scaffolds-self-supporting staging

Employer

Name: Brace Integrated Services, Inc.
Location: 1860 FM 99, KARNES CITY, TEXAS, 78118
NAICS: 238990
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

On May 4, 2018, an employee started to build a scaffold when the vertical scaffold leg fell and hit the cross braces. The employee's left ring finger was caught between the cross braces and the vertical scaffold leg. His left ring fingertip was amputated (no bone loss).

Source

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