Amputations

Name: Amputations at IPEC Equipment Services
Start: 10/25/2018

1 amputation · 20181011019 · 10/25/2018 · IPEC Equipment Services

Severity

Hospitalized: 0
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
Nature of injury: Amputations

Cause

Event: Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
Source: Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified

Employer

Name: IPEC Equipment Services
Location: American Crystal Sugar, HILLSBORO, NORTH DAKOTA, 58045
NAICS: 811310
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was reassembling pipe components after a valve replacement on a mud pump. A section of pipe crushed his finger against a pipe flange. The finger was surgically amputated.

Source

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