Amputations

Name: Amputations at Gage Personnel Services
Start: 5/14/2018

1 amputation · 2018054659 · 5/14/2018 · Gage Personnel Services

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Entangled in other object or equipment
Source: Scrap, waste, debris, n.e.c.
Secondary source: Winders, unwinders

Employer

Name: Gage Personnel Services
Location: Zip-Net, Inc., READING, PENNSYLVANIA, 19604
NAICS: 561320
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was removing waste nylon from a winding machine when the nylon became caught on the moving spindle. The nylon then amputated the employee's left middle finger.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
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