Amputations

Name: Amputations at POET Biorefining Groton
Start: 7/25/2018

1 amputation · 2018077536 · 7/25/2018 · POET Biorefining Groton

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c.
Source: Centrifuges
Secondary source: Tools, instruments, and equipment, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: POET Biorefining Groton
Location: 40425 133rd Street, GROTON, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57445
NAICS: 325193
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was replacing gaskets on a disc stack centrifuge and using a specialized tool to pull the disc stack when the employee's left ring finger was caught between the tool and the stack, resulting in a partial distal amputation of the left ring fingertip.

Source

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