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Amputations

1 amputation · 2018076965 · 7/11/2018 · Consolidated Container Company, LLC

Severity

Hospitalized
0
Amputation
1
Loss of eye
0
Body part
Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
Nature of injury
Amputations

Cause

Event
Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
Source
Wrenches-power not determined
Secondary source
Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified

Employer

Name
Consolidated Container Company, LLC
Location
31 County Rd 827, BLUE MOUNTAIN, MISSISSIPPI, 38610
NAICS
326160
Jurisdiction
1

Narrative

An employee was using a wrench to adjust a screw on a mold machine when her right hand was pinched between the wrench and the machine's plate, fracturing two fingers of her right hand. Her index finger had to be partially amputated.

Source

Authoritative
OSHA Severe Injury Reports
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