Amputations

Name: Amputations at Graphic Packaging International LLC
Start: 7/21/2018

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2018077380 · 7/21/2018 · Graphic Packaging International LLC

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
Source: Grinding, polishing machinery, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: Graphic Packaging International LLC
Location: 1700 West Ash Avenue, MITCHELL, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57301
NAICS: 561910
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was sanding a thin piece of metal on a table disc sander when a metal piece and the tip of the employee's right thumb were pulled into the gap between the disc and the table. The tip of the employee's thumb was amputated.

Source

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