Amputations

Name: Amputations at Bake's Steel Erectors, Inc.
Start: 8/23/2018

1 amputation · 2018088735 · 8/23/2018 · Bake's Steel Erectors, Inc.

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
Source: Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted

Employer

Name: Bake's Steel Erectors, Inc.
Location: 900 N. Michigan Ave., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60611
NAICS: 238120
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was in a scissor lift welding a clip angle and needed to reposition the scissor lift for the next weld. While repositioning the scissor lift, his left hand was caught between the top rail and an existing pipe support, resulting in a partial pinky fingertip amputation.

Source

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