Amputations

Name: Amputations at Georgia Pacific CNS
Start: 10/26/2018

1 amputation · 20181011072 · 10/26/2018 · Georgia Pacific CNS

Severity

Hospitalized: 0
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
Nature of injury: Amputations

Cause

Event: Injured by handheld object or equipment, n.e.c.
Source: Vises, clamps

Employer

Name: Georgia Pacific CNS
Location: 71 Georgia Pacific Rd, BAY SPRINGS, MISSISSIPPI, 39422
NAICS: 322121
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

Maintenance employees were using a sliding C clamp to press bearings onto a shaft. As one maintenance employee tightened the C clamp by hand, the C clamp slipped off the bearing and pinched the injured employee's middle finger, resulting in an amputation.

Source

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