Amputations

Name: Amputations at Niagara Cutter, LLC
Start: 6/12/2018

1 amputation · 2018065756 · 6/12/2018 · Niagara Cutter, LLC

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: Grinders, abraders

Employer

Name: Niagara Cutter, LLC
Location: 150 S. 5th Street, REYNOLDSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, 15851
NAICS: 333517
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was running a machine that dresses a form on a grinding wheel. The employee was cleaning off the grinding wheel when their right index finger was pinched between the grinding wheel and the dressing wheel amputating it at the first knuckle.

Source

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