Amputations

Name: Amputations at Central Lift Maintenance Group
Start: 9/13/2018

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2018099459 · 9/13/2018 · Central Lift Maintenance Group

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
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: Vehicle and mobile equipment parts, n.e.c.
Secondary source: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered

Employer

Name: Central Lift Maintenance Group
Location: 7000 W. 71st Street, BEDFORD PARK, ILLINOIS, 60638
NAICS: 811310
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was securing a trunnion to a gantry crane with bolts. A bolt slipped while he was tightening it, and his fingers were crushed between the wheel assembly and the blade of a forklift. The tip of his left index finger was amputated.

Source

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