Amputations

Name: Amputations at Better Baked Foods, Inc.
Start: 5/16/2018

1 amputation · 2018054800 · 5/16/2018 · Better Baked Foods, 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 maintenance, cleaning
Source: Special process machinery, unspecified

Employer

Name: Better Baked Foods, Inc.
Location: 56 Smedley Street, NORTH EAST, PENNSYLVANIA, 16428
NAICS: 311412
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was cleaning underneath a belt on a machine at the chain drive when her glove became caught on the chain drive, pulling her hand into the moving part. She suffered a right finger amputation and fractured right wrist.

Source

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